Apartment Therapy: air & water quality

The Most Toxic Places To Live
MNN

We balk if there's a little visible pollution in our beautiful Texas skyline, or bottles floating in the lake—but we can't imagine living in one of the most toxic places on the planet. Jump below fo...

Low Flow Guide: US EPA WaterSense

One of the LEED for Homes requirements is to reduce water use with water-efficient fixtures. Regardless of whether you’re working on a LEED project, a good guideline to follow is to use products c...

Reinventing Farming
NPR

We know that large-scale farming as it exists today presents all sorts of problems, ranging from the mass-producing scale to soil and resource depletion. Which is why Wes Jackson's work at the Land In...

Filtercrete by Ozinga: Pervious Concrete

Concrete is often thought of as a great green material, but one thing it’s not great as is a paved surface. It's almost entirely impermeable and contributes to unwanted water runoff. Filtercrete i...

5 Non-Toxic and Natural Ways to Control Odor

It happens to everyone: sometimes there’s an unfortunate odor in your house – maybe it’s coming from your garbage can, something that burnt in the kitchen, the bathroom or the litter box. Our ...

What Type Of Water Do You Drink?

Some of us are lucky enough to have great drinking water straight from the tap, but it's something we shouldn't take for granted. Some believe water quality across America is getting worse, so while...

Show-me Reduces Water Consumption, Shower Hogs

The show-me shower system uses a LED display system to notify you how much water you use during your time in the shower. One LED is lightened up for every five liters of water consumed. Would you want...

White House Seeks LEED Certification

Since taking office earlier this year, the Obama’s brought much attention to organic gardening with their vegetable garden. Their latest green home effort? Getting the White House LEED certified &...

Inspiration: Man Creates 20,000 gal Rainwater Collector
The Los Angeles Times

So, if a small and compact rain barrel isn't what you had in mind, you could always do what Jerry Block did: other than the 20,000 gallon rain water collection system and four massive holding tanks ...

The Hero 365 RC-1 Rain Collector

Remember this vintage-looking Drying Rack from Toronto-based company Hero? Well, they also have a beautiful and functional Rain Collector that holds up to 45 gallons of water — enough to wate...

How To Keep Good Indoor Air Quality While Remodeling?
Good Question

Q: My in-laws are remodeling their kitchen. The remodel includes staining cabinets, painting walls, adding new lighting, new countertops, and fixtures. All of this will involve creating dust and addin...

10 Ways To Improve Your Indoor Air Quality

Though it's made for some beautiful sunsets, the fires that have been raging in Los Angeles have had a definite effect on the air quality. Many of us have been sticking close to home. The air qual...

Hot or Not? Letting Your Yellow Mellow in the Shower

"Pee in the shower! Save the Atlantic rainforest!" That's what a TV ad in Brazil is encouraging people to do to save water and help the environment. Check out the hilarious and cute commercial after...

Safe Green Water Jug?
Good Question

Q: If I want to purchase my water at a Sparkletts water station outside my grocery store, what kind of plastic jug is available that is green, safe and reusable? The Brita water filter just does not ...

America's First Zero-Impact Living Building
Fast Company July/August 2009

The Omega Center for Sustainable Living is a $3.2 million "living building" in Rhinebeck, New York, the first of its kind to have no detrimental environmental effects. The main component of the des...

Green Ideas: Get Your Drinking Water From the Air!

In order to save some money and to just save the environment, what if you could just extract the water that you need to drink from the air? This isn't a new idea. For anyone who's had a moist smelling...

Holmes True-HEPA Allergen Remover
In The Test Lab

Product: Holmes True-HEPA Allergen Remover Designer: Holmes Rating: Recommend We've posted about air purifiers before, but we'd never actually owned one. We were always curious about them, because ...

New from ABC Home: Eco-Intelligence

This past June NYC-based ABC Home launched a new line of eco-friendly home products, equipment and accessories called Eco-Intelligence. Each product explains its energy and cost saving potential and...

Hot Tip: Rinse Aid Alternative

While we've discussed what dishwashing detergent is best, what about their counterpart - rinse aides? Instead of buying a commercial rinse aid, there's something you probably already have in your cu...

PureBond: Formaldehyde-Free Hardwood Plywood
Columbia Forest Products

Indoor air quality is a serious concern, no thanks to many of the building materials and furnishings we bring into our home and their polluting chemicals, one of which is formaldehyde. The Environme...

Cista: Rainwater Harvesting Concept

Cista is a rainwater harvesting system designed for urban environments — a sort of vertical green wall allowing for both water conservation and increased green space. It was designed by Carol...

8 Ways to Keep Your Garden Happy During a Drought
Planet Green

Having trouble keeping your plants happy during a drought? There are ways to get your garden through heat and dry spells without keeping the sprinklers on all the time…...

Green Idea: Extracting Water from Thin Air

If you have a lot of humidity in your place, you know that there can be lots of water extracted from thin air thanks to dehumidifiers. This water extracting machine takes things a bit further. We al...

Chicago Green Alley Program
...and techniques to upgrade your backyard.

With "more miles of alleyways than any other city," Chicago has taken the green to the streets, literally. Chicago has approximately 1900 miles of public alleys – that’s almost 3500 acres of pav...

Second Rain: Inconspicuous Rain Collection

One of the coolest products we saw at last weekend’s Green Festival was the Second Rain rainwater collector – not because of how it looks, but because of how it’s hidden away......

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