DIY Life

Strap a brown-bag lunch to your wheels and head off to work. According to GreenYour.com, restaurants produce over 50,000 pounds of trash per year and consume more energy per square foot than any other U.S. industry. By steering clear of restaurants during your workweek, you can be part of a small change to decreasing both of those numbers (and probably decreasing another number while you're at it--- those dreaded numbers on your bathroom scale).

Luckily for you, reusable lunch bags are cuter than ever, and with this tutorial from Evil Mad Scientist, you can create your own over the weekend, green-ifying your work ritual by Monday.

Don't bike to work? The reusable bag is the perfect size for a weekend biking jaunt-- just right for nestling your keys, wallet and perhaps a great book to take to the park. Sure beats a plastic bag, and you're guaranteed the cutest bike on the block.