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The Lofts At Cherokee Studios

Cherokee Studios is the place where many of rock's legendary musicians have recorded the albums that have gone on to garner Platinum status. But the former recording studio, now converted to live-wo...

100 Abandoned Houses

When you think of a community that has faced the full spectrum of economic ups and downs, Detroit has to be near the top of the list. One artist has taken to photographing abandonment in Detroit. Th...

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...

The Experience of Bulk Spices

One small way to go green is to return to an older style of grocery shopping—before the first supermarket opened, grocery stores were full-service affairs, where you'd walk in and hand your list...

Green Oops: The Gravia Lamp

We flubbed! In a post last Thursday, we mentioned the Gravia lamp. As more than one reader pointed out, it is physically impossible for the award-winning design to generate as much light as original...

An Introduction to Land Trusts

While many of us live in apartments or in urban areas, we or our families may someday own a little piece of land. You've probably heard of land trusts before, but we've invited our sister, a land p...

On Green Design (Circa 1975)

Skimming a 1975 edition of Inside Today's Home, we spotted this passage which struck us as both ahead of its time and a reminder that the green movement wasn't born yesterday: A chair is a chair, bu...