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Good Question: Green Alternative to Cocktail Napkins?

We're actually asking this question: This weekend we’ll be hosting a cocktail party and we're on the fence about what to do about cocktail napkins, or any paper product for that matter. We have eno...

Green Stocking Stuffer: To-Go Ware Utensil Set

Banish disposable utensils and give the gift of conserving. To-Go Ware Utensils are made of bamboo, and come with a holder made entirely of recycled, discarded plastic bags. The utensil set prevents t...

Roundup: Last Minute Table Setting Ideas
Using Everyday Household Items

We’re hosting Thanksgiving for the first time this year, and it’s really caught up to us quickly. While it’s a little nerve wracking, it’s also fun to think about ways to decorate and set the ...

Fork Tines as Place Card Holder

If you're using place cards at your dinner table this holiday, maybe consider using something that's already on the table as a holder: the tines of each setting's fork. I found this idea when planni...

10 Eco Friendly Coaster Ideas
To Buy or Make Yourself

Last week AT: Chicago asked if you coaster – the overwhelming response was yes. We agree – we love coasters not only because they protect our furniture, but they also add a nice decorative additio...

Eco Tableware from Sundance Catalog

The recent Sundance catalog features a lot of lovely eco-friendly items such as recycled glass dishware, repurposed décor and reclaimed wood tables – just in time for our Dining Room month and the ...

Green Tableware: The Eco Collection

Our dish collection is something we've never really loved -- leftover plates and bowls from college, mixed with a few odds and ends from IKEA. It's all totally functional though. But, we tend to lose ...

PaperStone Coasters and Placemats by Dinah Coops

Paperstone is an FSC, Smartwood and Rainforest Alliance-certified material made from post-consumer recycled paper and petroleum-free resin. We've seen it used for countertops, but Seattle-based arti...

Look! Inexpensive Bamboo Placemats from Target

We found these in the bargain bin at Target yesterday: $2.50 for a set of two bamboo placemats. (The centerpiece is a basil plant we use for cooking.) For day-to-day use these inexpensive mats were ...

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...

Bamboo Bowls from Greater Goods

We like the simple yet colorful design of these bamboo bowls from Greater Goods. The bowls come in 15 different colors and four different sizes: 11 inch low, 11.5 inch, 6 inch and 4 inch. Each bowl ...

Unglazed Earthenware Pie Plates

To-Go Ware 2 Tier Stainless Steel Food Carrier

With the SIGG lunchbox still out of stock, our dreams of an uncrushable lunchbox have been delayed. Is this shiny number the solution?...

Apple-a-Day Lunch Bag by Spool Sewing

Our little sister was an early green crusader and insisted on bringing her lunch to school (Catholic school at that!) in a cloth Crown Royal Whiskey bag. This Apple-a-Day lunchbag by Spool Sewing i...

Klean Kanteen in Kolor

How many more reasons we can give you to stop buying bottled water? Oh fine, here's one more - Klean Kanteens now come in color, er, "kolor". posted originally from: OhDeeDoh...

SIGG Lunch Boxes

These SIGG lunch boxes, like the water bottles, are made of recyclable aluminum and leakproof. We'd buy one... if we could find one. Apparently, the mass awakening to all things green has the SIGG f...

Etsy Find: Mod Dots Reusable Cloth Table Napkins

Reusable cloth napkins are relatively easy to make yourself, even if you don't own a sewing machine. (Don't believe us? Just wait, a How To is on its way). However, if you're baffled by a needle an...

Green at CB2

We spotted a few green items in the new CB2 catalog, along with a few wood items that made us wonder. For example: should "plantation grown" and "sustainable" be used together?...

Twisted Newspaper at Cost Plus

Our local Cost Plus World Market has a bunch of products made from twisted newspaper. (They call it "recycled," but "repurposed" might be a more apt description.)Most are purely decorative, like cute...

DOT Coasters by Boris Bally

When we were kids, we really liked the whole idea of traffic signs as art. We dreamed of having a STOP sign up on the wall in our bedroom (heck, we would've settled for YIELD). So, we really like t...

Sol Mesz's Recycled Glass

Recycled glass .... When it comes up, we're usually talking about tile. But there are many other uses for the stuff. For instance, we love this set of serving trays by glass designer Sol Mesz. The...

Wine Barrel Lazy Susan from Uncommon Goods

We're not too proud to say we wish the lazy susan would come back in style. The deep wood finish of this one would look great in the middle of a round pedestal table, like IKEA's Docksta or, gasp, S...

Scrabble Board Placemats

Okay, we know this is silly. But on the heels of Tuesday's post about $59 reproductions of board games as wall art, we felt duty-bound to share this picture of Scrabble boards as placemats at The S...

Sarah Cihat's Rehabilitated Dishware

Finally! For years, we've admired Brooklyn artist Sarah Cihat's work from afar (i.e., in the pages of various magazines). And now we can check them out for ourselves, as they recently became availab...