Add this one to the list of crafty reuse of baby food jars: how about putting your nose to the grindstone this weekend to make a project that comes directly from the recycle bin? That's exactly what...
Just thought we'd take a moment and say Happy Birthday to Natural Home magazine, one of our favorite places to go for green inspiration. They're celebrating their 10th anniversary by reminiscing ab...
In the March/April issue of Preservation we came across a short article on restoring and greening a historic fixer-upper. Rebekah and Stephen Hren embarked on a serious project when they decided to...
What does Bono think? That's what we're wondering right now. Apparently, U2 lead guitarist David Evans (aka the Edge) wants to build five modern homes on a hillside overlooking Malibu's coast. As m...
Considering how much we write about green building and green homes here at Re-nest, it's shocking to consider the fact that we've never really highlighted the workers who build them. That's why The Gr...
How long before we see windmills dotting the horizon as we enjoy our beach vacations? According to an article in The San Francisco Chronicle, federal officials are going to discuss just that at a hea...
Remember when we asked you if you could live in a 250 sq-foot apartment? Well, what about a 20-by-8-foot wooden box with ten foot ceilings? ...
One of our very favorite blog reads lately has been Sunset's One Block Diet. The premise is simple: the magazine is based in Northern California, where "locavorism" is just a way of life. But the edit...
Everyone can glean inspiration from this list of top urban farms in America. Not only do they make use of urban spaces that would otherwise harbor just asphalt, but they give people in the community a...
Annie Leonard, one of Time Magazine's 2008 Environmental Heroes, lives in a charming Craftsman-ish bungalow in Berkeley, Ca. What won't surprise you, if you're familiar with Leonard's work (have you ...
Growing up, we were surrounded by older women. Grandma was one of 8 siblings ... so the "Great Aunts" were permanent fixtures in our household. I loved them fiercely, but they were different. They sa...
This week The Washington Post Home & Garden section focuses on laundry and clothes: find energy-efficient washers, read Tim Gunn's advice on closet organization, and tour a redone laundry room. ...
We may have been rather quick to breathe a small sigh of relief yesterday when we heard a report on NPR saying the 2008 congressional ban on phthalates (the chemicals that make plastics soft and pliab...
click thumbnails for larger picsThis year at the Home and Housewares show the "thinking green" message was still there, loud and clear. As we all know, one of the easiest things to do is to stop usin...
If you were to imagine the greenest home in San Francisco, would it look like this house on 39th Avenue in the city's outer Sunset neighborhood? (To tell the truth, we were expecting something with a...
U.S. gasoline consumption fell nearly 6% in 2008. As someone who doesn't drive a car, it's easy for me to think that gas prices should simply remain high if it encourages people to drive less, walk mo...
Creating a carpet runner at SCRAPEven if your budget for home-related expenses has shrunk, it doesn't necessarily mean that you can't spruce things up a bit for the new season. The SF Chronicle shares...
Nature is a great source of inspiration, as interaction designer Philip Worthington and product designers Todd Bracher and Anna Rabinowicz discovered when they spent a day at the Nature Lab on the c...
We spent time harvesting my mother's garden over the weekend, whisking pounds of kale, spinach, sugar snap peas, onions, turnips, and carrots back to the city with us. Farm-fresh food, dirt still clin...
OK, so the Wired article we're referring to doesn't really answer the question "Can Etsy save the economy?" But it does approach the trend of micromanufacturing from a pretty interesting angle -- aski...
Redesign Alert! Have you seen Dwell's shiny new website yet? If you haven't, you should cruise right on over to dwell.com right now (well ... after you see what we've got going on here). Their new de...
We're into purging excess "stuff" around the house, especially around the springtime, but we're sometimes at a loss for what to do with all the stuff we no longer need. Print out this handy guide fr...
If you've ever noticed how heavy wine bottles are in comparison to other glass jars, you're not alone: The New York Times notes today in its Green Inc column that whereas a beer bottle today is 30%...
While traveling for work last week, I picked up a copy of the most recent National Geographic at the airport. I read it from cover to cover--something I don't normally do with magazines--and was truly...
It's bathroom month here, and that gives us yet another excuse to bring up... toilet paper! We talk a lot about TP here. We've talked about using less, about going recycled, and even about alternative...
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