Apartment Therapy: Slinks

Upcycled Furniture by Jamie Ward

Jamie Ward takes old, discarded, essentially broken down pieces of furniture and breathes new life into them -- saving them from the junk heap and putting them back to good use....

Blightster by Rodrigo Alonso

What's the deal with all these the-packaging-becomes-the-lamp lamps these days? First there was the Packaging Lamp that starred in last week's hot or not ... now this....

Green Camping: Recycled Tents

All of this talk about escaping has gotten to us. We're getting out of here -- going camping. We'll pack the car and leave tomorrow afternoon. ...

Yale Student's Tiny House

Elizabeth Turnbull, a Yale grad student, decided it would be cheaper and greener to build her own mini-home on a trailer, than pay for traditional housing. The thing even has solar panels! ...

Better Than CFLs and LEDs? Vu1 Promises Practically Perfect Light Bulb

Have you replaced all of your incandescents with CFLs? Or are you more of an LED person? Do you worry about the mercury in CFLs or the fact that it takes a little extra effort to dispose of them pr...

Hot Posts 08.13.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

Last month's green ideas left their mark on us, as we continued to discuss eco-friendly gadgets (composters, washer that flush, and Ikea's delve into the solar panel market). We also talked wires, bo...

SunTable

The SunTable is the first in what we suspect will be a major trend of integrating solar energy production with good design. Its clean lines (and its somewhat high price!) would be right at home at D...

Rainwater HOG

Over the past year, we've had a number of readers write in with questions on rainwater harvesting. One popular question is how to do it without an unsightly barrel. It's been a tough one to answer, ...

Green Escapes: Drive or Fly?

This is a good question that hasn't been asked here yet, but we're sure it's just a matter of time: When you're traveling, is it greener to drive or fly? That plane is going to New Orleans anyway,...

Glass Water Bottles by Love Bottle

We love our SIGG. It's virtually indestructable, it's got a spiffy design, and it never makes out water taste funky. So we're not exactly in the market for a water bottle. But we like these. ...

LED String Lights: Not Just for Christmas Anymore

During our college years, we used to leave Christmas lights up all year long. It was a cheap (sort of tacky) way to breathe a little life into our sad, sad dorm room. And, at night, there was somet...

DIY Woodpecker Feeder

Woodpeckers are awesome creatures. We saw one just the other day going to town on a telephone pole. When they do their work, they really look just like Woody the Woodpecker used to in the cartoons. ...

How Walkable Is Your Neighborhood?

San Francisco was just named the most walkable city by Walkscore.com. We here in New York came in second. Want to see how your neighborhood adds up? See how after the jump... posted originally f...

Vermont Green Home: Remember Ian and Raedia?

Hey! Remember Ian and Raedia? Our readers who built green in Vermont? Well, it looks like they're done!...

Box Beds

The Post-Materialist, blogging at the T Magazine site, found green inspiration in these way retro cottages with their anachronistically green box beds and high-back chairs......

Rooftop Spaces by Wilkinson Blender Architecture

Chicago firm Wilkinson Blender has been featured on AT before. (Remember the ultra-cool, LEED-certified live/work space of Smog Veil Records? They did that.) They're great at making use of spaces th...

Simple Steps: Green Living Ideas from NRDC

We're liking both the format and the spirit behind the National Resources Defense Council's Simple Steps website, which is a good place to go if you're trying to increase your environmental awareness...

Deconstruction Services from Portland's ReBuilding Center

Now here's a green idea: rather than demolishing buildings with a wrecking ball or by implosion (though that is more fun to watch) take them apart piece by piece... and then reuse the parts....

Ecolect: Online Library of Sustainable Materials

Organized for designers and renovators, Ecolect is a website that catalogs sustainable materials. Features include user images and reviews, case studies, and a design blog. Their green criteria? Alt...

REX: The Reuse Everything Experiment

This project makes us feel a bit better about teardowns. (That's the jargon for when a small house is levelled and replaced with a much bigger house.)Shannon Quimby, "one of the nation’s top renew-...

Glow in the Dark Lunar Cabinet at Inhabitat

This lunar cabinet makes those glow in the dark constellation stickers our roommate stuck on our ceiling during college look really, seriously second rate. How do you make a cabinet glow in the dar...

Pop Quiz! Beneath the Label

Here's a quick and fun diversion: take a quiz and see how well you know the ingredients and policies behind some very familiar household brands. We promise it doesn't take as long as some of the carb...

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...

Fair Trade Goods from World-Shoppe

A reader just tipped us off to World-Shoppe, a local business "committed to using our knowledge, creativity and purchasing power to directly benefit artists and artisans throughout the world. Fair tra...

"Tell me this is another joke."
Wisdom Within: The Week's Best Comments | April 18-24, 2008

Good Product: Plastic Bag Dryer "Tell me this is another joke." -renata Seven more after the jump, including:"Does anyone know if a moss lawn can spread mold growth to your home?" "I hate this...