Simple Green: Share Your Books
Finished a book this weekend and placed it on the growing stack of books on our bedside table. The book would've normally gone to the bookshelf, but it's overflowing. We've got a book problem: we eith...
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Hot Tip: Can it All
Canning has become quite the buzzword these days — people are canning up a frenzy across the nation, and co-op groups are popping up all over the place. Raise your hand if you thought pickles ...
A Small Shed/Studio in Petaluma by Joseph Sandy
Ever dream of adding just a little more room onto your living space? Joseph just sent us photos of a wonderful combination studio/shed that he designed and built in Petaluma. He writes, "It is an 8x...
Grand Street Gardens
We’ve been spending a lot of time at Grand Street Gardens recently for our deck renovation, to spruce up our building’s planter boxes, and just to explore. And at this year-round organic garden ...
Coco Eco Online Magazine
We've blogged before about a life without physical books. How about a life with only online magazines? Joining the likes of Greenlight Magazine, Coco Eco Online magazine is a 134-page online only gr...
Paperless Invites: Paperless Post
I think I've found where I'm going to have my next set of invitations made- and it's not a bricks and mortar store. It's an online retailer called Paperlesspost.com, and they specialize in online i...
New Book: Clean Plates NYC
Also available as an iPhone App!
When you live in a city with as many restaurants as NY, it's important to have a good eating guide. Clean Plates NYC is a nutritionist and foodie's guide to eating well in Manhattan. It's available a...
What's This Herb? Use Flickr for Garden Reference
Last week I found a tall, fragrant plant growing in a weedy corner of my little yard. It looked like lemon balm, an herb that has a sweet lemon aroma and makes a really wonderful herbal tea. But was i...
Simply Green Blog Launches: Ideas, Tips & Giveaways
Simply Green is the name of the line that Danny Seo works on with JCPenney and, as of today, it is also the name of a new blog they are collaborating on. It is a place where "you'll find lots of easy ...
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...
Make Your Place by Raleigh Briggs
Affordable, Sustainable Nesting Skills
Brought up on Helpful Hints from Heloise, we didn't know a home "how to" book could be so...cool. Hand written and illustrated by Raleigh Briggs, Make Your Place is a gem of a book full of informat...
Creative Pitch: Art Supply Collection
When we finished design school we came home with tons of art supplies. After a few months of the supplies sitting our closet, we gave them to a teacher friend, knowing she’d be able to put our foa...
Plastic Containers Buying Guide
National Geographic Green Guide
For the most part, we're trying to transition away from plastic food containers entirely. We've switched about 90% of our containers from plastic to glass. However, there are still some instances when...
Roundup: Online Book Swapping Services
Back in March, we surveyed you (over in D.C.) to see if you used an online book, CD, or DVD swapping site. From your comments and not surprisingly, it appears that the most popular thing to swap is bo...
Top 10 Flea Market Finds
Canadian House & Home
This is just the kind of list we're always putting together in our head, but Canadian House & Home beat us to actually writing it down. There are a few things we always beeline for in the thrift sto...
Plenty Magazine: Stuff Environmentalists Like
Guide to befriending and exploiting green people.
Exploiting green people may sound a bit odd. According to this guide, "Choosing one’s friends is a very weighty endeavor that can yield significant benefits ... Recently, a new subset of desirable...
Donate to Green Charities With GoodSearch
Whether scouring the internet for a Craigslist find or searching for green wares, this search site — which gives 50% of their revenue to your charity of choice — is worth bookmarking.......
Yard Sale Treasure Map
Making Yard Sale Hunting More Fun and Efficient
Yard Sale scavenger-ing just got easier. Yard Sale Treasure Map is a Google-hacked website designed to be a source for all Craigslist.org posted yard sales. Enter your zip code, search radius and d...
Green Porno: Isabella Rossellini Reveals All...
...about the sex lives of insects and whales. Happy Monday to you, too!
Time to expand your green knowledge. We must admit that we had actually never seen an episode of Sundance's Green Porno until recently, and now we're totally fascinated! Leave it to Isabella Rossel...
Etsy Find: Book Art by Lisa Occhipinti
Lisa Occhipini's beautiful book creations — including mobiles, hanging spheres and table sculptures — are individually created from old, discarded books. She bends and curls and crafts e...
Book Review: Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home
No-Nonsense Advice that Will Inspire You to CLEAN like the DICKENS
We've never fallen so hard for a book about cleaning (in fact, we've never before owned a book about cleaning). But, Mrs. Meyer's Clean Home — the same Mrs. Meyers after whom the green cleaning ...
New Book Releases in Architecture and Small Spaces
click thumbnails for larger picsThis collection of new releases in architecture (with a few focusing on small spaces) via Amazon includes titles brand new to us and others that are more familiar (Tin...
Fishing in the City: Boston Ponds Stocked for the Season!
Boston
Bostonians, you don't have to travel far from home if you'd like to do a little fishing this summer! Many lakes and ponds right in the city are annually stocked with fish by the Division of Fisheries ...
Green Building: What Are the Downsides to Adobe?
While munching on pizza the other night, conversation drifted to the topic of adobe homes. Living in our hot, dry Texas climate lends itself to homes built from mud. We went over the pros: the bricks ...
Green Building Institute: Theory & Practice
Baltimore
By now, everybody knows that the green movement is red-hot! And while most of us are embracing the new craze, it's easy to get lost in the sea of information cropping up. The non-profit Green Buil...
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