click thumbnails for larger pics Check out Petz Scholtus's environmentally responsible renovation of her 18th-century apartment in Barcelona, Spain — The New York Times shows us the results of ...
The tiny house movement continues to hold strong, with coverage by big media outlets such as CNN, the Oprah Winfrey show, and now the Economist. The British magazine focuses on two builders we've fe...
Least Is most. There's something poetic about pallets. These are just a couple of statements made by Tiny Free House creator Michael Janzen about his project of making a house out of wooden shipping...
Pasta is a pantry staple in most homes, in some way, shape, or form; we find ourselves eating it probably twice a week, whether as a main dish, stirred into some soup, or cold in a noodle salad. The...
March is Kitchen & Bath month here at Re-nest, so we thought we'd start things off by discussing one of the more controversial green bathroom topics: composting toilets. We don't know too much about ...
“Cow poop is cow poop... Can’t you guys do something with this stuff — make a flowerpot or something?” Uttered at a brainstorming meeting for Connecticut dairy farmers in 1998, those wor...
We loved Jer Thorp's charts he created for Ouno Design. They're at once beautiful and informative, conveying in an instant the shifts and changes in our language and lives. When Ouno Design tipped u...
It’s safe to assume that reading the news online is greener than reading the paper, right? Many people have cancelled their newspapers to not only save a little green, but also be a little green. We...
Map of U.S. city populations in 1940 This article from the current issue of The Atlantic makes some interesting points about how NYC may hurt a lot less than other US cities and suburbs in this econ...
In college, one of our friends opened the cabinet under her sink to unveil her tub of vermicomposting worms. Yeah. It was a little weird then...But I'm thinking about doing it now. And it turns out,...
Here's a fun project for hardcore design enthusiasts who are also hardcore pet lovers: a modular, collapsible, biodegradable dog tent. You know your Fido wants one....
These are EASY. No question, each of these tips could be implemented right away (or as soon as this weekend) and the savings are substantial. According to Real Simple, we could be saving $25 per month...
Jill Fehrenbacher, editor of Inhabitat.com and founder of the Greener Gadgets conference, recently went shopping with The New York Times to pick out some sustainable green gadgets, including the Aqu...
Remember the awesome house tour we featured back in September, A Barn Inspired Wisconsin Retreat? Natural Home has chosen it as one of their favorite 15 homes featured in the past 10 years of the maga...
This 400-year-old damp, 4-room stone house along the Vltava River in Cesky Krumlov (112 miles south of Prague) was purchased for the equivalent of about $6,000 USD. At the time of the sale, it was ...
We love the idea of prefab sheds. Such an awesome way to add a bit of extra square footage to a house without all the labor and waste associated with building a big addition or buying a bigger house. ...
We mentioned how we might celebrate the sentiment of Valentine's Day with an earth-friendly card or some handmade cookies--but we weren't thinking about the Down With Love crowd. Fortunately, Grist ...
I'm a magazine buff. I have way too many subscriptions, and when I step foot in a bookstore, I make a beeline for the racks of glossy covers. But I never really understood Real Simple. It didn't seem...
As much as we love some of our green cleaning brands -- like Seventh Generation and Method -- we know, in our heart of hearts, that it's even greener (and cheaper) to make your own cleaners from vineg...
This is pretty smart: In Sacramento, Ca the utilities district has been working on a little experiment. They're sending customers bills with happy faces and frowns. Happy faces mean you're conserving ...
Homeowners associations have been known to do a lot of sketchy, environmentally-questionable things -- ban clothes lines, limit solar panels -- but this seems extreme. Two homeowners associations in t...
Confession time: Mark Bittman, author and food writer for the NY Times, is our new go-to guy. For Christmas, we received How to Cook Everything, and have literally referenced it every single day since...
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