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Hot Posts: Art from Recycled Junk Mail, the Unnecessary Necessary, Greening Ladies' Necessities, and Icynene

The hottest posts this week at Re-nest truly run the gamut! From recycled junk mail art to questionably green insulation ... to a green question only the ladies need to worry about ... to a philosoph...

Simple Green: Totally Finishing a Product Before Tossing It

When we ran out of shaving cream and realized a pair of tights wasn't going to hide the stubble on our legs, we snipped open the tube and scooped out the lotion inside. It was a last minute method for...

Look! The Trunk of Poison

Even the greenest of us has a few things lying around the house that really don't belong inside: bleach, the odd can of WD-40, spot remover, and so forth. For peace of mind, one of our friends gather...

Last Chance: Method Pop-up Shop
Chicago

2034 N HalstedChicago, Illinois 60614 www.methodhome.com Attention Chicagoans, this is the final weekend to stop by the temporary Method Pop-up Shop in Lincoln Park. Not only is it a Method Store, b...

Make It Right: First Brad Pitt Homes Completed in New Orleans

It was with a bit of skepticism that we watched the story of Brad Pitt's Make It Right campaign unfold. (Forgive us: We can't help it, we're always a little skeptical of celebrities' green moves.) ...

Green Home Tour: Just-the-Right Size Custom Home
Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright

This beautifully crafted home was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house and is adorned with beautiful woodwork. A house that feels like "home", substituting extravagance for comfort and design....

Scavenger Roundup: A Mid Century Coffee Table in New York
New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago

In today's Scavenger Roundup, we've got our eyes on a couple unique pieces: a mid-century coffee table in New York, a modern sleeper sofa bed in Los Angeles, a round glass and lucite dining table in S...

Inspiration: Fall's Compostable Decor

Now that the temperatures are finally starting to drop, we're feeling lots of inspiration for fall decor. This weekend, we plan on bringing a little bit of the outside in. For starters, we're thinking...

News: Mayor Gavin Newsom Launches Rainwater Harvesting Initiative in SF

If you've ever wanted to start rainwater harvesting (and live in San Francisco) now's a good time to start. Yesterday, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a Rainwater Harvesting Initiative in t...

Hot or Not? Cuisinart Countertop Water Filtration System

It plugs into the wall and provides cold or hot filtered water at the touch of a button. Is the $169 Cuisinart Countertop Water Filtration System a "eco-friendly alternative to bottled water"? Or is...

Lost & Found Furniture, Rain Reserve, Draught Excluders, and Flags as Drapes
Slinks for 10.10.2008

This morning, we're looking at Lost & Found Upcycled Furniture, 3 snuggly draught excluders, the Rain Reserve system, and flags as drapes. Get all the links after the jump. ...

NStar Green: You Can Now Buy Wind Energy in Boston!

We just got off the phone with Nstar, one of the primary suppliers of electricity in the Boston area. They've recently launched a new program called NStar Green, which allows you to support wind ...

Getting Back to Basics: A Book About the Simple Life

We wanted to share our new eBay purchase. It holds some resonance in the current economy. Check out what's inside... posted originally from: AT:New York...

Good Food with Evan Kleiman: Is Vertical Farming in Our Future?

Imagine a situation where 100% of the fresh fruits and vegetables for an entire urban population are grown inside climate-controlled towers right in the city itself. Dr. Dickson Despommier was on this...

Look! Cereal Box Drawer Organizer

Cereal boxes make great material for office DIY projects, since their dimensions work with standard paper and magazine sizes (case in point: this cereal box magazine holder). Here's another idea tha...

Green Notebook: 6 Green Furniture Strategies from the House Tours

A lot of us are renters, which means we have little control over the structure we live in -- we can't change the flooring, or upgrade the windows -- however, we do have control over how we furnish our...

Gaiam Sale: Four Eco-Friendly Finds Under $100

Gaiam's got their annual sale going on, and four of our favorites include this ceramic bamboo vase for $9.99 and a $59.99 organic cotton Nylum duvet cover in a retro-modern print....

BPA May Interfere with Chemotherapy

One more reason to purge your kitchen cabinets of recyclable plastics marked with the number 7 and cut back on the canned goods: BPA, which may be an ingredient in plastic containers, and which is als...

360SEE Gallery

After you've browsed the green gifts at Grasshopper510, walk down the block to the new art gallery, 360SEE. If you’re looking for a different gallery experience, 360SEE is filling the sustainable ...

Recycled Furniture by Bike Furniture Design

It's true, I'm a sucker for anything made from recycled bike parts, sometimes regardless aesthetics. The furniture from Bike Furniture Design however is truly eye catching, functional and recycled....

Scavenger Roundup: Orange Mod European Style Sleeper Sofa in DC
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, DC, and San Francisco

In today's Scavenger Roundup we've got an Orange Mod European Style Sleeper Sofa in DC, a vintage desk in San Francisco, Danish modern end tables in New York, and an Orange Herman Miller Shell Chair i...

Michelle Kaufmann: Smart Home in 90 Seconds

Two things green building enthusiasts always talk about when it comes to modular homes is how little waste is created during construction and, often, how quickly the homes go up once they're delivered...

Look! Use-By Magnets from Japan

We're not the best at remembering what's in the depths of the fridge, so we were excited when a friend gave us these super cute magnets......

Hot or Not? Ovetto Differenziato (Recycling Egg)

Forget those 3 home recycling storage solutions we were looking at a couple weeks ago. They were boring compared to this -- the Ovetto Differenziato (Recycling Egg) by Gianluca Soldi. It'll hold your ...

Look: Simple Home Odor Control!
Austin

Let's face it, no matter how hard we try, there are still places in the home that get stinky. Whether it's the kitchen trash, the laundry room or where Fido likes to hang out these areas aren't going...

How To: Make Baby Wipes

With so much focus on how environmentally unfriendly diapers are, baby wipes have sort of slipped under the eco-radar. Erin recently wrote us to share a green how-to: I'd been freaking out about t...

Home Detox with Danny Seo: Indoor Air Quality
Part One

Danny Seo, green living guru (and yes, a super nice guy) is in Chicago to help out at Method's pop-up shop on Halsted. A while back, he got in touch with AT:Chicago about arranging a Home Detox for a ...

Sustainable in Seattle
Metropolitan Home

Greg Smith designed his 2,200 square-foot penthouse in downtown Seattle with one goal: to create a sustainable living space that did not advertise the fact. posted originally from: AT:San Francisc...

VivaTerra Holiday 2008 Catalog: Useful and Beautiful

It was with a renewed commitment to keep unnecessary items out of our home that we picked up the VivaTerra Holiday 2008 catalog this morning. There were plenty of beautiful things to look at -- but we...

Look! Sculptural Plant Display

O.K., so we're not ready to give our coffee table up just yet. But after featuring a living wall system and wheatgrass in a window on AT last week, we were still excited when we spotted this green di...

Blogging Planet Green: Pellet Stove Buying Guide

With the price of natural gas and electricity going up, up, up, and the economy in general looking not so good, many are installing a pellet stove in anticipation of winter. We found a buying guide t...

A Green Candle Company

A Green Candle Company creates candles made of 100% pure soy wax that meets both Kosher and FDA standards. Soy wax replaces the traditional paraffin wax that, according to the American Lung Associatio...

Creative Reuse 2008: Milk Jug as Kid-Friendly Planter Project

What do you reuse? And how do you do it? Let us know, because we're looking for readers' photos and creative reuse projects. The first 15 ideas we post will get a free AT T-shirt (get all the details ...

DIY Japanese Lamp from Recycled Materials

Inhabitat has a great article on some green lighting options from the London Design Festival: LIGHTEN UP, but why not make your own, from recycled materials!...

Scavenger Roundup: DWR Min Bed for $550 in SF
San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago

Here's what we've got for you in today's Scavenger Roundup: A Design Within Reach Min Bed in San Francisco, modular bookshelves in Chicago, an Eames molded plywood lounge chair in New York, and Danish...

Versatile Product: Knog Frog Bike Safety Lights

When buying a new product, we like to look for things that have multiple uses—after all, multi-use makes the product all the more green. Especially in a time where we're re-evaluating purchases and ...

Tubular Solar Panels, a Green Computer Smackdown, BPA Cans, and 6 Prefab Passive Houses
Slinks for 10.08.2008

Lot's of interesting things happening around the green blogosphere today: totally tubular solar panels, a face-off between the Dell Studio Hybrid and the Advent Eco PC, 6 prefab, zero-energy houses, a...

Bio Tray Module for Green Roofs

The new California Academy of Sciences is an incredibly innovative green building. The green roof was created by a leading landscape consulting firm, which developed a biodegradable module system int...

Modwalls: Cork Backsplash
West Coast Green 2008

We know cork is versatile -- it makes great flooring, cutting boards, countertops, etc. -- however, until we stepped into the Modwalls booth at West Coast Green, we'd never seen it used as a backsplas...

Eat Cheap: Farmstands in the Country

We often praise local farms and producers for the quality of their produce, the seasonal glory that they bring to our tables, the organic principles and ethics that can raise our food above the common...

Look: A Modern House and a 1930's Bungalow, Combined!
Austin

We came across an article in the Austin American-Statesman dubbing a residence here in East Austin as the “weirdest duplex in Austin”. We loved all the neat energy-saving ideas implemented in th...

Forbo Marmoleum Flooring

Forbo natural flooring product has been featured and discussed on AT before, but we'd like to focus on the design (color!) components as much as the green ones. The linseed oil, wood flour, rosin, and...

How To... Figure Out if a Product is REALLY Green

DC has a bureau for everything, including "Misdirected Destiny." But it turns out that there isn't much regulation on green product claims and you can easily be misled. Readers have pointed out tha...

Green Tip: Use Kosher Salt (and Lemon) to Clean Copper

Thanks to Jonathan's tip, most of us now know that we can clean cast iron pots with kosher salt. Did you know that if you add half a lemon to that mix you can also clean and shine your copper pots?...

Thinner, More Flexible Solar Cells
The New York Times 10.07.2008

As a renter, we began to think about all the possibilities thinner and more flexible solar cells could afford: could we have solar power, without having to install panels on the roof?...

Modern Fabrics

AT:Boston readers have heard about Modern Fabrics before, but we'd like to follow up with a few more points on this remarkable source for reclaimed designer fabric....

Hot or Not? Grassland Orb

We saw this at an art gallery over the weekend and can’t decide. The Grassland Orb is real grass ball that hangs suspended from the ceiling. The grass is grown using only light and water, and is the...

AT on ... the Unnecessary Necessary

This weekend, I had the pleasure of listening to a very smart person talk about the economy and how it could and should affect our lives at home. She referred to something that I immediately recognize...

Silvana Recycled Washing Machine Table by Reestore

Reestore takes everyday waste objects turns them into charming yet functional pieces of furniture and accessories. The Silvana recycled washing machine table has been available through Reestore since ...

Scavenger Roundup: Mid Century Peter Hvidt Axe Chair
Los Angeles, Chicago, and DC

Here's what we've got for you today in our AT Scavenger Roundup: a Mid Century Peter Hvidt Axe Chair for $20 in Los Angeles, a set of 6 Marcel Breuer CESCA Chairs in Chicago, and enamel table and chai...

Green Tip: Enjoying Events at Home

A friend of ours who skates in roller derby told us yesterday about watching the big roller derby Western finals over the weekend. She's close with many of the gals who skated in the big bouts, but ma...

Good Question: How Do You Get Ready for Winter?

It's that time of year again: Although it's still relatively warm here in California, we know that other parts of the country are starting to cool off significantly. That means that it's time to get y...

Recycle Water Filters?

Take Back the Filter created the above video to promote their campaign to convince Brita to recycle used water filters......

EcoSmart Fireplaces
West Coast Green 2008

We've seen EcoSmart fireplaces before -- online, in magazines, and in the mkLotus. But West Coast Green was the first time we got to see one that was actually burning up close and personal....

10 Upcycled Uses for Old Things

As many of us try to curb overspending in the current economic climate, reusing old items can be a great money-saver. Instead of buying a new set of canisters from the Container Store, why not use m...

Carrot Bouquets as Display

At a party we attended this weekend, we spotted bouquets of carrots arranged in simple glass vases. The carrots were down in the water and their greens sprouted out of the tops. Guests at the party ...

Pile Up: Hans Zwimpfer's Stacking Houses
The New York Times 10.5.08

Over the weekend, The New York Times' real estate magazine Key featured the L-shaped stackable home designs of Swiss architect Hans Zwimpfer. The concept, named Pile Up attempts to merge the "comfor...

Velux Sun Tunnel Skylights
West Coast Green 2008

Forget CFLs and LEDs, the greenest way to light a room is obviously with sunlight. However, it's not always easy to get that sunlight into the darker corners of our homes. ...

How-To: Remove Paint With Baking Soda and Water

From thrifty to thrilling, Blogger Creative Quilt Girl removes paint from metal hardware—no paint thinner required....

100+ Sites for Green Living

Spotted over at SocialRovr: a big list of 100 websites for green living, helpfully organized into the following categories:...

Weekend Project: Install a Storm Door

We’re not sure what the weather is like for all you readers, but here in Chicago we are officially in Fall mode – the temperature went from 80 to 60 in a matter of a weekend. It’s about this tim...

Environmental Guilt Goldmine
Washington Post 10.06.2008

Given the headlines and the performance of the economy over the past few weeks, most of us are tightening our belts a bit -- separating the necessary expenditures from the unnecessary. So, it came as ...

Building a Fence: Alternatives to Concrete Anchors?

I've finally begun construction on my pallet fence which will enable our dog to roam our yard, sans supervision. My two main priorities: Build something the neighbors will approve of and minimize my i...

Scavenger Roundup: DWR Nelson Ball Pendant Lamp Light Fixture for $200
Chicago, New York, and San Francisco

We've spotted some nice Scavenger finds today! Here are our favorites: a DWR Nelson ball pendant lamp light fixture in Chicago, a screen print Libertines poster and a vintage arm chair in New York, an...

Creative Reuse 2008: Sweater Arm as Vase

What do you reuse? And how do you do it? Let us know, because we're looking for readers' photos and creative reuse projects. The first 15 ideas we post will get a free AT T-shirt (get all the details ...

17 Recycled Halloween Costumes, the iBasket, a Shipping Container House in Redondo Beach, and Reclaimed Textile Furniture
Slinks for 10.06.2008

We've dug up some fun stuff that happened over the weekend: 17 recycled Halloween costumes (with instructions), a futuristic washing machine concept, reclaimed furniture by Elisabeth Nossen, and a bea...

Welcome:October at Re-nest

It's a little hard for us to accept that summer's over; but, now that we're seeing pumpkins at Trader Joe's and Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbuck's, we know it's true....

Small Space Ideas from an Airstream Trailer

While surfing online green style guide Sprig, we found a slideshow of an adorable Airstream trailer that reconfirms one of our favorite reasons to live in a small space: surrounding yourself with be...

Look! ExpandOS Packing Material

We've written about Geami Packaging in the past (the laser-cut paper that Crate & Barrel uses for shipping), but we received a package in the office the other day that used a packing material ne...

Fair Trade: Cocoa

Although we do our best to eat local, some things are just grown too far from home. One of these foods is cocoa, most of which comes from the Ivory Coast region of West Africa, as well as Central Amer...

PaperStone Coasters and Placemats by Dinah Coops

Paperstone is an FSC, Smartwood and Rainforest Alliance-certified material made from post-consumer recycled paper and petroleum-free resin. We've seen it used for countertops, but Seattle-based arti...

Eco-Button Blasts Your Unit Into Hypersleep

Don't you wish saving the world was easy? Don't you wish you could just push a button and drastically reduce your energy consumption? Well, you can. One push of this Captain Planet-themed button activ...