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Do You Take Baths?
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A recent post over at Apartment Therapy about How To Make Your Bath Hold More Water, got a lot of strong reactions, for a number of reasons, the most common one being taking a bath uses a lot more e...

Survey: Do You Keep It Green For Valentine's Day?

Valentine's Day is the second largest card-sending holiday each year with over 1 billion valentines sent and 36 million heart-shaped boxes sold per year. There are plenty of green Valentine's Day id...

Survey: Banning Products for the Environment
Is It A Good Environmental Policy?

An Australia town recently banned bottled water and San Francisco's plastic bag ban made national headlines. What about banning other every day conveniences in an effort to replace them with greener...

Survey: Do You Keep Magazines?

As a designer, I've always held on to magazines for inspiration, and have kept up subscriptions to Dwell and Architectural Record since I began architecture school years ago. Well, because of new re...

Survey: Do You Have a Television in the Bedroom?

Yesterday we asked you if you allow pets to sleep in your bed with you. Now we want to know if you've got a television in the bedroom. A lot of experts think TVs shouldn't be in bedrooms ... some peop...

Survey: Does Your Pet Sleep in Your Bed?

While the extra body heat can be so tempting on a cold winter night, many people say allowing your pet to sleep in you bed is a big no-no. Not only does it allow them to be in the "pack leader" role...

Survey: Do You Buy Bulk?

Buying in bulk &mdash what does that make you think of? Buying in bulk at Costco, or buying from bulk at your local co-op? It's funny how the this word can have drastically different connotations. B...

Survey: Are You Using LED Lights This Year?

My household got our first Christmas tree in 5 years, which means we needed new lights! So naturally we opted for the LED variety, but to be honest, after seeing some of tell tale blue-hued LED ligh...

Survey: Do You Buy (Green) Gifts for Your Pets?

During the holiday season there's a pretty solid line drawn between the people who buy gifts for their pets and the people who don't. We won't argue whether or not it's environmentally smart to buy ...

Have You Lived Without a Dryer?
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It may be a tad bit early to start making resolutions for the new year, but when our less-than-efficient dryer died on us this weekend we thought, why not start being greener and hang our clothes to...

Pay-As-You-Throw Trash: What Do You Think?

If you haven't heard of a Pay-As-You-Throw trash program, it's a variable-rate pricing program for trash disposal that provides an economic incentive to recycle, resulting in far less trash. Would y...

Survey: What's Your Toilet Paper Alternative?

Earlier this week we asked our readers, why people are still using regular toilet paper over recycled? The surprising response was that many of you aren't using any at all......

The Green Cure: Are You Ready?
Fall 2009

The Apartment Therapy Fall 2009 Cure kicks off in one week! This is Apartment Therapy's 8th Cure, and as a way of upping the ante, we're encouraging all of our Cure-ees to take on an extra "green c...

Survey: Do You Buy Organic Clothing?

We don't usually talk about buying clothes, although we do talk about washing and drying your clothes, clearing out your closet, and donating or recycling your clothes. But here's what's been on o...

Best of 3: Home Recycling Storage Solutions
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We've been considering an upgrade in the kitchen — we need a better way to store our recycling. The system we have right now is pretty unattractive and not all that space-efficient. So we want ...

Survey: How Many Bikes Do You Own?

Our quest for a new bike has ended with Maxwell and Sara-Kate’s suggestion of the Trek Allant WSD – yay! It’s affordable, well designed and looks good to boot. It also makes it Bike #4 for us ...

Survey: Using Technology to Go Green?

There’s been a lot of talk about whether new gadgets, such as the Kindle, will change the way we live. Our household has always been early adopters of the ‘latest’ technology: iPods, iPhones, ...

How Do You Stay Cool in the Kitchen?

Small kitchens can get hot, fast, especially in the summer. Do you have a fan? Do you keep your windows open? Crank the AC? Let us know your tricks......

What's Your Ideal Getaway?

It's the weekend again, and it's promising to be a pretty warm one here in New York...which always makes us want to get out of the city. We've had the good fortune to take brief trips this summer &...

Fresh Sheets: How Do You Make The Freshness Last?

Who doesn't love freshly laundered sheets. They might even help you sleep better. But with an Energy Star rated machine using 18-25 gallons of water per load (compared with 40 for standard machines)...

Survey: Do You Slow Travel?

Rather than squeezing in all the “must-sees”, a slow vacation consists of an staying an extended period of time in one place to really get to know the area and immerse your self in the culture. ...

Survey: How Are You Greening Your Summer Travel?

It's July and we're dreaming of lakes, and beaches, and lounge chairs, and frosty drinks. We've got travel on the brain! But we're trying to keep our footprint light. So we're curious about what y...

Green or Not: CFL Bulbs?

We've talked a lot recently about the LED bulb revolution (here and here) and the fact that they're likely to replace CFLs as the go-to green bulb. We've also noticed in the Comments that many of y...

Survey: What Did You Think of Earth 2100?

What happens if we do nothing? That's what the ABC special, Earth 2100 asked last night. We watched the last 45 minutes or so, and for a while there, we'll admit, depression took over. The narrator...

Survey: Which Room In Your Home is the Least Green?

We just read a post elsewhere in the blogosphere about the most toxic rooms in the home ... which got us thinking about our own apartment. There are so many factors to consider, but it's an interest...

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