We're pretty sure this stuff isn't green, despite the label's promise of "Natural Orange Oil." But when one of our favorite green products, OSMO Liquid Wax Cleaner, couldn't do the trick, Pledge cam...
We’ve started a painting project using Home Depot’s new Freshaire Choice paint. We’ll post a review after applying the second coat. In the meantime, a snippet of text alongside the Greenguard ...
We’ve been in a hotel for the weekend—one of the glass tower types. (It wasn’t our first choice, but it was graduation weekend in Boston and everything was full.) The windows didn’t open...
This morning, my neighbors were working in their backyard and listening to music -- some really rusty, sweet jazz, which was loud enough to drift in through my open window. It was a pretty simple th...
We're glad there's a healthy skepticism around green products—there's definitely a lot of greenwashing going on.But it's mostly good news. We're seeing green everywhere we go... and we mean ever...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The three "R"s are pretty easy to remember. But there's something else that often gets left out of the conversation that is at least equally important: Durability. I've bee...
Since we started writing for re-nest, we've found ourselves on a number of mailing lists for all things green. We don't mind the deluge in our email box -- it's fascinating to see how people are star...
Design is steeped in the tradition of Modernism. A big part of that tradition is the story of progress: the sense that, in everything we Modern people do and make, we are moving forward toward a futu...
I have a mental checklist that I run through every morning when I leave the house. Do you? It's very basic and it goes something like this: ...
Please excuse me while I take this moment to rant (I've had a little too much coffee). Is there anything worse than a leaf blower? Well, yes, I suppose there are a few things. But not many. ...
So we're still deep in the thick of making a decision about new siding for our house. We can't reuse the old cedar siding, which is a shame, but it's in really bad shape and there's the specter of le...
A post at the Fine Homebuilding Blog's features a letter from a long-time reader cancelling a subscription because of that magazine's increasing coverage of "fake" and "common" materials, including v...
We've often groused about our hyper-consumer culture -- usually as we've tossed another 16-pack of paper towels into our cart at Costco. What is it, exactly, about shopping that is so good... even th...
Everybody is talking about "green guilt" and "eco-anxiety" these days. Along those lines, Deep Economy has gotten us thinking ... according to Bill McKibben, Americans aren't very happy. More mone...
Is it our nature to destroy what we love?...
We've been doing a bit of travelling lately, and everywhere we've been, we've seen the telltale signs of spring. Sure, it was snowing in the Midwest last week and cold and rainy in the Northwest, but...
Prefab construction has been the way of the future for at least the past sixty years. We spent yesterday knee deep in dusty boxes in the archives of the Small Homes Council, which used to be a unit o...
Small is cool. Small is also green. A small bedroom can be cozy. A small kitchen can be efficient. A small home in general presents an opportunity to use space creatively; to tread more lightly on ...
Monica Hesse's above-named Washington Post article scolds us soundly: Really going green, [Paul] Hawken says, "means having less. It does mean less. Everyone is saying, 'You don't have to change your ...
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 ...
It's not so pretty when the brake system fails on this Danish windmill (wind turbine)......
Not to gloat, but we've got the day off today. (We knew we needed it when we looked at this image of the Lincoln Monument and the first thing that jumped to mind was wall graphics!) If you've got t...
I had a revelation in the shower at 6 AM: the trademark text-heavy label on the Dr. Bronner's bottle makes me dizzy. It's not just the excess of exclamation points and quotation marks! Also sentence...
This February, we'll be thinking and posting about beds and sleep. You spend about a third of your life asleep, so the bed is a natural place to start re-thinking your home. We'll revisit some of ou...
Would you read a book that the Wall Street Journal describes as "a calm analysis of what today's best science tells us about global warming and its risks"? We're wondering if the book, by author Bjø...
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