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Green Home Chicago: Green Design Center

Located in Fulton Market District, Green Home Chicago is a must stop shop for anyone looking to green their home. Whether you’re looking for paint or tile for your bathroom or a cool piece of recl...

Renegade Handmade: 300 Artists and Tons of Talent

Renegade Handmade is a completely unique one-stop shop for DIY goods, featuring the work of over 300 artists! The mortar-and-brick store in Chicago was created as an extension of the über-popul...

Three Potato Four: A Collector's Dream

Three Potato Four was started by husband and wife team Janet Morales and Stu Eli who "both grew up collecting things," and started Three Potato Four because of their love of collections. It's one o...

André Joyau: Handcrafted Furniture and Home Accessories

André Joyau, the company founder and head designer of this small cooperative studio in Brooklyn, NY, oversees a group of of designers and cabinetmakers who create pieces that are "modern with...

Green Home Environmental Products

This isn't going to come out sounding quite right, but... Green Home Environmental Products seems sort of like the Wal-Mart of green home stores. Need a rain barrel? They've got it. Recycled-content t...

Stray Dog Designs: Fetching Home Accessories

If whimsical, colorful and quirky decor is your thing, then you should check out Stray Dog Designs. Their design principles are simple: all items are handmade with careful construction from quality...

Baileys Home and Garden

To the folks at Baileys, it doesn’t really matter if something is old or new. They strive to sell things that are simple, useful and well made. This philosophy has resulted in a store that offers...

New from ABC Home: Eco-Intelligence

This past June NYC-based ABC Home launched a new line of eco-friendly home products, equipment and accessories called Eco-Intelligence. Each product explains its energy and cost saving potential and...

Kill Devil Hill

If antlers by the pound aren't your thing, there's always the handmade soap (by the owner's dad) at this Brooklyn shop which specializes in all things from the Industrial Revolution period......

LiT Shades

Dawn Bassett's Seattle design shop LiT has caught our attention: they create colorful, contemporary lamp shades out of old, ugly lamps, turning what would have otherwise ended up in the trash into s...

GreenMaker is Now Green Depot

click thumbnails for larger pics As of November Chicago’s local green building supply store, GreenMaker is now part of the nation’s largest chain of green building supply stores, Green Depot. The...

IKEA's New PS Collection
ICFF 2009

click thumbnails for larger picsThis year, IKEA had a big, beautiful booth at ICFF filled with the upcoming PS Collection. It was full of interesting pieces with more than a few that we could see bei...

Greenfeet.com

There's nothing flashy about Greenfeet.com. It's a pretty basic online-only store that sells pretty basic green home goods. And we really, really like that. Whether you're looking for a gigantic com...

Foundation4: Thoughtfully Designed Goods

Flowerball Pendant by Heath Nash We came across Foundation4 a couple weeks ago at the Brooklyn Flea market when we noticed the awesome Heath Nash hanging lights in their booth. Upon meandering a bit...

Green Depot Opens First LIVE Store in New York!

We were privileged last night to attend a preview of Green Depot's new LIVE store (their term for homecare, design and lifestyle products) on the Bowery in New York City, officially opening to the p...

A Green Candle Company

A Green Candle Company creates candles made of 100% pure soy wax that meets both Kosher and FDA standards. Soy wax replaces the traditional paraffin wax that, according to the American Lung Associatio...

Megalight: 30% Less Mercury CFL

One of the criticisms about CFL bulbs beside light quality has been the issue about the minute amounts of mercury contained within each bulb. Last week at the 2008 National Hardware Show, Megalight an...

Rejuvenation

We found the perfect place to explore on a rainy day. Rejuvenation, with stores in both Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, and a quite nice online store, has a selection that mixes old and new. High-qual...

1000Bulbs.com

Until dimmable CFLs are easy to find in stores, we're shopping online at 1000Bulbs.com. They sell Litetronics brand compact fluorescent lights, or CFLs. (Note: our readers have had good things to sa...