Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry cleaning bags are being given a new life, repurposed into weatherproof ...

Some metro seniors are staying active with a purpose. For an hour a week, residents at Embark at Statesman Club crochet shopping bags. It's tough work and takes an assembly line of close to a dozen ...

SALINAS, Calif. -- Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for homeless people to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic ...

It started with some church ladies in Tennessee. Big Lake resident Liz Houck Kampa saw an online video of them using plastic bags to create mats for people experiencing homelessness. The crocheted ...

I built a simple loom to weave long grass mats for use as portable roofing material. Laying two layers of mats on a quick ...

I’m thankful for Thanksgiving. It’s a time to gather with friends and relatives around a table, savor one another’s favorite dishes, anticipate pies with dollops of whipped cream and simply be ...