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...
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 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...
The BADA Table: it's a dining table, a desk, and a sofa! Brooklyn-based design firm EcoSystems creates some seriously cool furniture pieces, any one of which we'd be more than thrilled to have in our...
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...
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...
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...
Overwhelmed at the idea of joining a CSA? Partnering with local sustainable farms, Chicago-based Fresh Picks brings organic food to your doorstep every week without the commitment…...
Whether you're looking for eco-friendly furniture, recycled-paper wall tiles, or just a nice bamboo bowl, you'll have no trouble finding everything you need at Re:modern's online store. With its new...
Note to self: earth-friendly does not necessitate earth tones. We can have a little (or a lot) of color and still be on friendly terms with the planet. Enter Rajboori. Their brilliant, colorful ho...
click thumbnails for larger pics Mia & Maggie was conceived by product designers frustrated by their own shopping experiences for high-quality, innovated pet products. Beautifuly designed, the online...
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...
It's just barely starting to feel like Spring here, but we're already really itching for Summer. We got a little tease of warm weather yesterday, and that's all it took. Apparently, the people at Ten ...
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. 3r. Opened in 2004, 3r Living's Park Slope location has been keeping the 'hood (and the rest of us as well) well-stocked in the green department. The products that you’l...
Barcelona Storage Bench, $398 While browsing through VivaTerra's website recently, we came across a number of items we really dug, including the Barcelona Storage Bench shown above. So we decided to...
The Green Life opened last July as a smart design meets earth friendly boutique carrying all kinds of organic bedding, non toxic cleansers, and things for home and garden. This week they launched the...
One major problem with shopping at big box stores is that we rarely know much about what we buy there. Often a "Made in _____" sticker is our only clue to a product's history. But knowing about a prod...
It was with a renewed commitment to keep unnecessary items out of our home that we picked up the VivaTerra Holiday 2008 catalog this morning. There were plenty of beautiful things to look at -- but we...
Branch and Glass Console Tables I used to think that VivaTerra was a bit cheesy and uninteresting, but lately they've changed my mind. Just today at the office, I found myself thumbing through the n...
It makes perfect sense to us when green shopping and socially responsible shopping go hand in hand. At the Global Exchange Online Store, the emphasis might be on fair trade goods, but look aroun...
We must be on some new-age mailing list; this time, though, we were pleasantly surprised. The selection at Uncommon Goods, which tags itself as a gift catalog, features more than a few unique home-r...
Gaiam has a little bit, make that a lot, of everything. Gaiam has green products for your home (even solar stuff) as well as clothing, books, and wellness products. If you've ever shopped at a Wh...
We love Craigslist, but sometimes it feels like a badly behaved lover. Craigslist requires constant maintenance and you never know if you're going to get a call back. But, just often enough, you end...
We've blogged VivaTerra here before and we're relatively sure we'll blog them over and over again into the future. Most of the products they feature on their site are somehow both unpolished and ele...
We're not quite sure how we stumbled across it, but Branch is a fantastic resource. Along with the requisite West Elm-style supergraphics, there's a wide selection of handmade products that caught ou...