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Amenity: Modern Organic Living

Amenity is clearly in a league of its own. Created by two graphic designers passionate about nature and modern design, they followed a vision of "sleeping among treetops" to create organic bedding ...

Bedding Ideas from National Geographic's Green Guide

We recently discovered National Geographic's online Green Guide with its eco-friendly recommendations for home and garden, local green resources, and more. While checking out the bedding section in...

Survey: Do You Use an Electric Blanket?

Growing up I always had an electric blanket - nothing fancy, just an on or off switch, but I loved it. Then, after moving in with my BF a few years ago, his parents bought us a new one and I was ecsta...

10 Tips for a Greener Bedroom
Natural Home Magazine

Blankets by Kushtush Organics

Kushtush Organics calls itself the "Eco Sleep Shop." Specializing in organic sheets, pillowcases, pillows, blankets, comforters, mattresses and toppers, the online shop also boasts free shipping for o...

Welcome: January is Bedroom Month

Welcome to a new week at Re-nest. We just realized that we've forgotten to mention that this month is Bedroom month across most of the AT sites. So, we've been looking at all sorts of green bedroom ...

Get the Look: Yankee Chic Eco Bedroom
Sprig.com

We love this green bedroom, with a look that Sprig has aptly dubbed, "Yankee Chic." ...

Greening the Bedroom: Sneeze Relief Pillow Protector

Yesterday we vented a bit about useless gifts. But what about useful ones? Luckily, we got a few of those too. There's one in particular that we're particularly excited about. We're hoping it makes o...

New Eco Collection Blankets from In2Green

The last time we wrote about In2Green's cotton blankets, they had a cool product made from recycled yarn, but not a lot of options for color or pattern. Now their line has grown from just a few styl...

Organic Flannel Sheets: So You Can Turn Down the Thermostat

It's nearly that time of year to retire the cold-to-the-touch cotton sheets and prep the bed with cozy flannel sheets. If yours are getting tired like our penguin sheets, consider turning those into d...

Grasshopper 510

Curious about the name? The grasshopper symbolizes prosperity, wisdom and a leap of faith; 510 represents the wavelength measurement in nanometers for the color green. Grasshopper 510 has a bit of e...

Raw Silk at VivaTerra

As the summer winds down, we start thinking about comfy things like pillows and throws. These raw silk ones from VivaTerra offer a pleasing, irregular texture, neutral color and the awesome not-too-c...

Recycled Moving Blanket at The Container Store

We like this moving blanket from The Container Store for a few simple reasons: it's not expensive and it's made of recycled materials. Jump down to discover its mystery material and its small price t...

Recycled Cashmere Baby Blankets by Kistner Supply

Sometimes we're inspired to post things simply because they're beautiful. That's how we felt about this baby blanket. We love the patchwork design, bright colors, and blurry softness, and want to se...

Organic Cotton Blanket by AreNaturals

We're kind of weird in that we need to have a blanket when we sleep, even when it's hot. Something about the weight - we like feeling all snug and tucked in. But with the recent change of weather we r...

Recycled Cotton Blankets from In2Green

In2Green's blankets are made from eco2cotton, a fabric spun out of leftover clippings from manufacturers of T-shirts and other garments. Many of the leftovers are predyed, and those inherent colors ...

New Reversible (Bamboo!) Pillows from Amy Butler

Just added to the Amy Butler online shop, reversible pillows featuring fabrics from her Nigella line of fabrics. The Big Boxy and Boxy pillows are made with bamboo inserts......

LOOP Organic Linens

These simple, organic bed linens are on our "should buy" list at the moment. The folks at LOOP say, "We work with top product designers to develop modern, style-conscious products from high quality or...

Pinzon Organic Sheets

Our dog tried to dig a hole in the bed yesterday, so we're suddenly seriously in the market for a new set of sheets. One option we're considering based on price alone: these Pinzon Organic Sheets fro...

PB Teen Organic Bedding

PB Teen has been known to have some good finds for those of us past high school, too - and now they have entered the organic bedding market. Links/prices below:...

Gift Fair: looolo Natural Textiles

looolo gets its name from the visual representation of "100%" and designer Joanna Notkin's goal from the beginning was to use organic, environmentally friendly wool and natural toxin-free dyes. Rema...

Organic Cotton Sheets at CB2

We stumbled across an alternative to Steph's Organic Cotton Sheets from Target: the same from CB2. Originally we thought these might, in fact, be the same sheets, but it seems there are some subtle d...

Plover Organic

It's pretty obvious by this point that just because you're an eco-focused, dedicated vegan who drinks only fair-trade coffee, it doesn't mean that you necessarily always want to sleep on undyed orga...

Ouno Bedcoverings

These quilt-like bedcoverings are not only beautiful, but a beautiful concept -- what's not a vintage textile is an organic cotton or hemp fabric. One side is a patchwork of printed scarves from th...