Apartment Therapy: Surveys

Survey: Do You Offset Your Travel?

We're talking a lot about green escapes and green vacationing here this month, but we haven't yet talked about purchasing carbon offsets. When you escape, that almost always entails transportation o...

Do you Yelp?

A chat with a friend last night got us thinking about Yelp. It wasn't that big in Portland when we were remodeling our house, but just about every business down here in the Bay Area has a bunch of co...

Survey: Would You Add Solar Panels to Your Home?
The Washington Post, 8.16.08

We're thrilled to see this article in the Post on solar home products going mainstream, especially because our upcoming house tour this week is on a completely energy-sufficient home! The Post story...

Survey: Your Dream Green Investment?

We're dreaming big these days (plus, we've got that economic stimulus check still burning a hole ...). And we're wondering what you dream about. If money were no object ... image via Xanderlex;...

Survey: How Are You Conserving Water?

This drought, and the mandatory water rationing in the East Bay, has us thinking a lot about conserving water. We're trying to do it in all sorts of ways ... but the more ideas we have the better. A...

Survey: How Does Your Garden Grow?

Because it's garden month across most of the AT sites, we're thinking a lot about plants, and flowers, and veggies. As we've said before, we'd like to garden, but we don't have any yard to speak of....

Survey: Cutting Back

Yesterday, General Motors announced it will close four plants that build fuel-guzzling SUVS, citing "long-term changes in consumer preferences." GM may even sell off the Hummer brand. That means tha...

Survey: Got Lawn?

Ah, springtime. A warm breeze; budding trees; the tweeting of birds. And the infernal sound of lawn equipment. Here in California, we're in the middle of a drought... but with all the green grass a...

Survey: Where Do You Keep Your Bike?

With gas prices the way they are (and warmer weather), we've really been trying to use our bikes lately. Still, we don't think we ride them as often as we should. We store them in the basement and...

What Do You Do With Wire Hangers?

After reading that wire hangers have recently shot up in price, we're curious if our dry cleaner will start to re-use hangers. We've tried collecting them and returning them for re-use, but the dry ...

Survey: Are Your Bath Products Natural & Biodegradable?

In honor of bathroom month, we're curious: Let us know what your favorite brands are in the comments below! image via remind; sxc.hu...

Survey: The Nature-Culture Divide

A few posts lately have got us thinking about an old debate. Where, exactly, is nature? Is it out beyond the city limits, or right here in our own backyards?How you approach this question tends to s...

Survey: How Wired is Your Bedroom?

On average, we have 4 things plugged into electrical outlets in our bedroom. One TV, two lamps, and one alarm clock. We'd never thought of this as a problem before ... but, according to the World Heal...

1% For The Planet

As we mentioned before, Apartment Therapy will be giving 1% of its 2007 profits to an environmental non-profit through 1% for the Planet. Now it's time for you to help AT decide where the money will ...

Survey: Green Badge Engineering

Badge engineering has been going on for years in the auto industry. Here's how it works: take a Chevrolet, slap some chrome on it, and call it a Cadillac. Oh, right, and mark it up a lot. But now t...

Survey: MCS

Some people who are interested in green building suffer from multiple chemical sensitivity, or MCS. While some people are skeptical that MCS exists, those who suffer from it go to great lengths to pl...

Survey: Re-nest Book Club: Take Two?

As of yesterday, we officially finished the first round of the re-nest book club. We personally enjoyed reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and really appreciated all the comments left throughout the...

Survey: Second Homes

Lots of people have second homes. Lots of people have green second homes, replete with energy-efficient windows, wood stoves, and loads of insulation. And second homes are a great proving ground for...

Tote Bag Excess?

We've been wondering: is there such thing as too many reusable tote bags? We're considering our own glut: two in the car, two in the kitchen, and cleaning out the basement we came across another stas...

Survey: Green Resolutions?

This New Year's Eve, we sat around with pen and paper (as we always do) and decided on a few resolutions. Some were green, some were more predictable (dig those running shoes out of the closet and l...

Survey: Second-Hand Gifts?

In case you haven't noticed, we're in heavy gift mode here at Apartment Therapy. With so many gift ideas, not to mention actual gifts, flying around, we got to wondering: does a gift always have to b...

Survey: How Do You Take Your Drinking Water?

We're total Brita loyalists. Why? Well, they're easy to use (and the new pitchers even tell you when the filter needs to be replaced). But we realize Brita isn't the only answer to the drinking water...

Sustainability Survey at The Splendid Table

Every week, we listen to the podcast of The Splendid Table. They've been running a sustainability theme for a few weeks now and are conducting this survey on attitudes towards sustainable food. We ...

Consumer Consequences

Online footprint calculators are fun, provided you enjoy feeling deeply guilty. We've been following the "Consumed" series on American Public Media radio programs. (Marketplace seems to be where the ...

Survey: I Am Green Facebook App

How many leaves have you got? That's the (grammatically imperfect) question implied by I Am Green, a fascinating Facebook application.Read on for the survey......