We don't drink coffee, but boy do we miss that morning jolt. We got it this morning. Not because we accidentally drank a caffeinated beverage but because we stumbled across Redesign Diva whose infectious enthusiasm for recycling woke us up from our dreamy writing state. Some people rescue stray pets. Kindle of Redesign Diva is on a crusade to rescue stray furniture.
Thanksgiving is next week! Apart from the turkey, the stuffing and the pumpkin pie, have you finalized the rest of your menu? Made your shopping list? Do you have enough servingware? What about enough cookware? If you're considering adding a few pots and pans, you might want to take a look at 360 Cookware's collection. Not only is it green, but it might remove some of the stress that comes from juggling a bunch of pots on stove all at once. (Watch a video below the jump!)
Last week, we talked about some of the compromises we'd made in our going green, deciding that it was, as the saying goes, about progress not perfection. We wanted to make our going green as easy as possible. Here are some other issues we've been tackling and how we've found our balance without berating ourselves.
We've shared our love of Readymade Magazine's MacGyver Challenges before. This recent one's no different and the timing is perfect; construct a few of these to light your Thanksgiving table. You could even float them in your bathtub to give your bathroom a soft and welcoming glow for guests.
Yesterday, we were sitting outside drinking our morning tea when a black cat sprinted across our apartment building's common courtyard. "C'mere cat," we whispered. He was so cute, and we wanted to pet him. He stopped at the sound of our voice, and then he started to scratch. Vigorously. He soon walked away, and we were glad he'd ignored us. Those were not casual feel-good scratches, but ones that spoke to a more common issue: fleas.
Right after we made the choice to switch our bulbs from incandescents to CFLs, a very opinionated friend of ours came by. "Ugh," he said, "I hate CFLs. The light they give off is so awful." We agree, but it seemed like there was no other choice. Be conscientious and live with awful light or ignore our responsibility to the environment in favor of our design aesthetic. We all confront these choices every day. So we jotted down some of our biggest challenges and the compromises we came up with.
In our dream life, we're the kind of person who can be showered, dressed and ready in 15 minutes. Our lifelong enslavement to the blow dryer prevented that dream from coming true. Recently, however, we've (pardon the pun) cut the cord on that relationship and it made us wonder if there were other ways we could rethink our grooming habits to make them more eco-friendly...
We discovered IGo power adapters at Radio Shack a few years ago when we went on a long road trip with a friend and her son. My friend and I had different cell phones, and her son had a Nintendo. Instead of packing three different car chargers, we packed one IGo car charger and three different tiny plugs (called power tips) that made it compatible with each of our devices. Now IGo has adapted that same ingenuity to the problem of vampire power...
Over on the Los Angeles site of Apartment Therapy, blogger Jenny Butler, who hails from Australia, has really opened our eyes to what's going on in the land "down under." It's a place full of cutting edge design and fascinating ideas (filtered through Jenny's discerning eyes) with a hearty irreverence. That same attitude shows up in G Magazine...
You know that person who stands in the aisle at the grocery store, unscrewing the bottles of shampoo or dish washing liquid or laundry detergent to see what they smell like? Yep, that's us. We're picky about how things smell. That's why we lost our mind a little bit when a friend pulled us into a Bath Junkie store while we were in Palm Springs this past weekend...
Once you've furnished your home, it's time to layer on the things that make it truly cozy and comfortable like the throws and blankets to snuggle under. To complement the amazing furniture at Environment Furniture, Heather Heron has created the lifestyle collection...
The other day we posted some easy bathroom fixes. And, in fact, the bathroom's an ideal spot for starting, or tweaking, your eco-friendly life. Here are five easy tips from National Geographic's new True Green Home book for practicing conservation in the smallest room in the house...
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