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10 Best Non-VOC, Low-Toxic Interior Paints

Over at ATNY today, Aaron posted about an interesting New York Times article discussing local and federal laws governing VOCs and insight about various "green" paint products. A niat serendipitous dis...

Best Healthy Mattresses

In honor of bedroom month here at AT, we thought a we'd pull together all the healthy mattresses we've heard about, slept on, or admired over the last few years. Having a healthy, comfortable, supp...

Top 10: Ways to Remember Your Reusable Tote

It's getting close to New Year's and, come 2008, our #1 resolution is going to be remembering our reusable grocery bags when we go to the store. It's not easy -- but there are a few strategies that w...

Top Ten: Green Blogs

We made the cut. Preston Koerner of Jetson Green's come up with a list of his top ten green blogs. As he puts it: These ten are the Guardians of Green Building. They are stewards of important info...

Top 10: Found-Object Art Projects

We're taking a page from the AT: San Francisco book today. They had a great post up last month -- Top 10: Found Objects to Bring Inside Your Home -- and we've decided to steal it for our own purpose...

Top 10: Really (Insultingly) Simple Green Tips

Sometimes we're lazy. Sometimes you're lazy. Sometimes it feels like "going green" takes a lot of time and a lot of money. But that's just not true. There's a lot we can do that takes very little b...

Top 10: Kitchen Canisters

Canisters. We love 'em. They allow us to buy a lot of our food in bulk, which cuts down on packaging and often (if we're careful consumers) promises a healthier product. But sometimes canisters are...

Top 10: Ways to Start Saving Water in your Kitchen

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. We've been thinking about water a lot lately. Here in San Francisco, there's too much mercury in the bay and, as a result, in the fish. Elsewhere, the...

Top Ten: Greener Laundry Ideas

The Laundry Room (or -mat) is a perfect place to go green without really feeling a big pinch. Many of the things we do automatically can be easily greened up - by simply setting the machine to cool, ...

Top 10: Simple Green Acts

Sometimes we feel like we're not doing enough to live green because we don't own a Prius, have solar panels on our roof, or grow our own veggies. But we really do try to do as many green things as ...

Top Ten: Paper Towel Alternatives

Paper towels - so useful, yet so UNgreen for the most part. We cut up some very old white bath towels into paper towel size sheets and have been happily using them instead of paper for most jobs, alt...