Apartment Therapy Re-Nest - Archive for the week of 2008-05-18

Living Green House Tour at BHG.com

Better Homes and Gardens and Clorox have produced a travelling exhibit to show how you can go green.Lots of familiar ideas here: as shown left, use reusable containers instead of disposable bags, chan...

Rate It Green

Rate It Green just finished Phase I, which means registered members can submit ratings on the products in Rate It Green's free databases. We're not entirely convinced that the ratings will prove to...

Hot or Not: Take Care Umbrella Stand

It's an umbrella stand and a potted plant in one. The residual water that drips off the umbrella waters the grass. What do you think? Is it hot or not? (Having trouble with our survey-making machi...

BKLYN Designs: Brave Space Design

Brave Space Design has been flyin gunder-the-radar here on AT. We've featured their Hollow series of furniture and their Tetris-y Tetrad Shelving was included in our list of Top 10 Modular Shelving...

Roscoe Jackson's Recycled Plastic Chairs

These are some of the coolest chairs we've seen in a while: green, ultra-versatile, and made right here in Chicago. Local designers Roscoe Jackson (aka Caleb Dawson, Shawn Gnann, and Thomas Fowler) ...

A Greener Mattress: Simmons Natural Care by Danny Seo

By using a combination of natural latex, Tencel, soy-based foam, recycled steel and wood from accredited and sustainably managed forests, Danny Seo has helped create a greener, affordable mattress f...

Biodegradable Furnishings
The New York Times 5.8.08

As more and more products with labels like "green" and "sustainable" enter the marketplace, companies look for new ways to stand out. And the latest development? Furnishings labeled "biodegradable."...

Zyliss Easy Slice 2 Folding Mandoline

There are a few kitchen tools we can't live without, and a mandoline is one of them. This one, featured in this month's issue of Fine Cooking, folds up for easy and space-saving storage. While we'd ...

Recycled Goods from Folk Art South Africa

They're bright and whimsical; they're made from recycled materials; and they're sold for a good cause. These bowls for instance, created from recycled over-prints from canning factories in Cape Town...

The US Green Building Council Wants Your Input

This is a plea for a little bit of engagement with policy that will shape green building. LEED may have had the most transformative effect on the building industry, and the US Green Building Council ...

Bilge Lounge Chair by uhuru

We've seen that chair made from recycled wine barrels everywhere (you know the one, right?), but we actually like this chair, made from recycled whiskey barrels, better....

Timber Block Stool from VivaTerra

We've always admired Brent Comber's Adler Cube Table (above, right). Made from Cedar, Douglas fir and maple branches that would have been treated as waste, the cubes are a one-of-a-kind table that i...

Debranded Home Bathroom Labels

Maxwell has long been a fan of de-branding your home by reducing the number of branded bottles and containers of necessary cleaning products. Debranded Home is on a similar mission. In addition to H...

Caroma Dual Flush Toilet

Nothing like coming back from vacation to a completely non-functioning toilet. We knew our ancient one was on its way out, but tried to put off replacing it for just a little while. We could wait no m...

5 Ways to Naturally Clean Whites

Going green means we're trying to avoid harmful chemicals in our everyday cleaning supplies. That pretty much nixes bleach altogether, but we've found a few natural ways to whiten laundry without th...

Vanity by Waterfall Bathroom

We spied this vanity by Waterfall Bathroom over at ecofabulous. The piece is made from FSC-certified and formaldehyde-free wood and low VOC paint. It's not exactly our style, but we think it would ...

Blogging New York Magazine: A DIY Artist Loft in Hell's Kitchen

Leafing through New York Magazine's Home Design Issue, we waited patiently to stumble upon the token "green" apartment (complete with bamboo floors, CFLs, and maybe even solar panels). Then we hit t...

Landing Strip Solution:
KangaRoom 3 Pod Bamboo Charging Station

Problem solved. We've been keeping an eye out for a solution like the 3Pod Bamboo Charging Station so we jumped on the opportunity to test it out. An added bonus was that it fit perfectly into the I...

Reader Tip: Turn Salvaged Drawers Into a Cat Tree

Last summer, we happened upon an abandoned dresser on the sidewalk near our apartment. We thought to ourselves -- if only we were clever enough to see some potential in it, to turn it into something...

Husque Recycled Macadamia Nut Bowls at Inhabitat

We're really enjoying the form and color of Mark Harrison's playful Husque bowls, made from pulverized Macadamia nut husks (they're coated with "a polymer," so there's at least some plastic involved.)...

Look! A Cool (Green?) Broom in Italy

OK -- I posted the clotheslines yesterday, and this broom today, but I promise that I'm not using re-nest to share all my vacation photos! Anyway. This broom caught my attention as I was walking al...

Solar Power in San Francisco
The Bay Guardian: 04.16.08

Renters don't have much say in whether a building gets solar panels or not - it's completely up to the landlord. And seeing as landlords don't pay our electric bills, we aren't expecting the footsteps...

How to: Clean Your Microwave
May is Spring Cleaning Month!

Microwaves are an efficient (and therefore green!) way of cooking, but they can be really unpleasant to clean. We’ve got a green method that works well, and all you need is water and a little bit o...

Green Cleaning: Drainbo

Last October, Erin wrote in with a question -- she wanted to find a green alternative to Draino. We weren't much help ... but, 12 comments later, we had collected quite a few DIY drain declogging so...

Why It's Green: Windows that Open

We’ve been in a hotel for the weekend—one of the glass tower types. (It wasn’t our first choice, but it was graduation weekend in Boston and everything was full.) The windows didn’t open...

Look! Clotheslines in Italy

Clotheslines are unattractive -- it's an argument we've heard a few times, but we don't really buy it. The clotheslines we saw in Italy over the past two weeks were anything but eyesores. They were ...

Checking In On... Fresh Direct's Green Initiatives

Oh, Fresh Direct. The name gets our juices (and yours) flowing. We love the convenience, we hate the trucks idling on the side of our block. We love selection and prices, we hate the lone head of cabb...

Audit Home for Energy Efficiency
SF Chronicle: 04.19.08

Holistic isn't a word we often associate with our home. Yet it makes sense that all of a home's systems -- heating, insulation, ventilation, lighting -- are related to one another. Last month, Anh-Mi...

Redesigned Household Items by Fethi Atakol

Not much detail on Fethi Atakol's site about these designs, but we're loving the reused colander as wall clock idea, alongside the plexiglass+ladder magazine holder. Simple ideas and inspiration to re...