Apartment Therapy: towels & bathware

Cosa Verde Find: Beautiful Kitchen Towels by Home Sweet

Have you ever checked out Cosa Verde? If you haven't, we highly recommend it. It's like Etsy for treehuggers. We just found these kitchen towels (and we've only just started browsing)......

Gift Fair 2009: 3 Sprouts Organic Hooded Towels

These organic hooded towels from 3 Sprouts are just too darn cute. We have a 2 year old niece, and we're thinking we're absolutely going to have to get her one. (All in anticipation of a new deskto...

Canvas: New Line from Ochre

Yesterday, I got a tour of the new line Canvas from Ochre owner Andrew Corrie. As a board member of Aid to Artisans, Andrew's interest in sustainable, quality furnishings and handcraft has formed a f...

Indoor Drying Rack Marries Form and Function

Though the Greener Gadgets competition ended in February, we just had to share one of our favorite designs from Rob Podell: this stylish indoor drying rack. Made from bamboo laminate, and designed...

Cork Bath Mat at Gaiam

The bath mat in our bathroom is a pretty nondescript oatmeal-colored square of fluffy carpet, with some sort of rubbery backing. We've had it for quite some time and it's getting pretty gross. So we'v...

West Elm: Eco Chic and On Sale

West Elm has always been a great resource for affordable modern furniture, and lately they’ve been ramping up their eco-friendly housewares. Given the state of the economy, we searched their website...

Green Product: EVA Vinyl Shower Curtains at Target

Part of ringing in the new year in our household involved seriously overhauling our organization and cleaning systems. For two days, we did nothing but minimize, organize, and sanitize (well, it wasn'...

Green Escapes: Biodegradable Travel Towels

Next month, we'll be following the lead and packing up for a mini green adventure of our own: camping at a state park just a few miles up the road (does that count as backyard camping?). And we're goi...

Organic Cotton Kitchen Towels from EcoChoices

We saw these kitchen towels last night while making an emergency run to our local, slightly overpriced specialty grocery store for a pint of Straus Family Creamery Vanilla Bean Ice Cream....

Organic Towels at West Elm

If you're into the idea of organic cotton towels, but don't like the soft "natural" colors they typically come in, these giraffe print towels from West Elm might be just the thing. Continuing the exo...

Green Search: A Good Shower Curtain

Ahhhh .... shower curtains. We've talked about them before, but we think they warrant another discussion, especially given the fact that they were, at one point, the bane of our existence. The on...

Eco-friendly Bath Goods from Gaiam

We like the look of natural materials with the usual white fixtures, tubs and sinks; eco-friendly items not only are a wise choice, they add that spa look. Last year we posted these finds from Gaiam ...

Welcome to March
re-nest Green Bathroom Month

March is here and spring is right around the corner. You know what that means: it's time to talk about your bathroom. We'll be blogging both things you can buy and things you can do to green your ...

Bamboo Bath Towels: Pros and Cons

We own a set of bamboo bath towels from CB2. We got them because they're soft, antibacterial and made from sustainable materials. Recently, we heard about some of the not-so-green drawbacks of bamb...

September Best Posts: Shoe Organization, Natural Bath Accessories, Pet Hair Magnet, Dual-Flush Toilets

In September, we covered how to keep shoes organized, sprucing up a bath with linen and cork, removing pet hair with the Pet Hair Magnet, and choosing a dual-flush toilet that works… [links ...

Soaps from Juniper Ridge

We'll be doing some traveling this holiday season, visiting family and friends that live overseas. While we usually make our own gifts, this year we want to make sure that our bags are packed with s...

Hemp Shower Curtain

Not the most designy bathroom product out there, but definitely one that will cut down on your use-and-toss impact on the world. To avoid the endless shower curtain liner cycle, one option rests in th...

Green Idea: Linen Shower Curtain and Cork Bath Mat

Classics gone green. It's got a tons of texture, resists mold and mildew, is a warm color that looks lovely with white tile and is hard wearing. Linen is a good choice for a shower curtain. Add in th...

Ikeuchi Towels

Japan to China: "If we can't be bigger, we'll be better (for the earth)." Ikeuchi towels are reported as being remarkably lovely, soft and expensive. Ikeuchi are made of organic cotton with loops of b...

Bamboo Bath Towels: Pros and Cons

We own a set of ...

Millenium Beech Towels

We'd read about 'em on Treehugger and productdose. They were slinked on AT:NY. But it wasn't until we visited the Branch booth at Dwell on Design that we actually saw -- and touched -- Millenium tow...