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Add This To Your Blog Roll: ReDesign Diva

From old dresser drawers to new stylin' night tables. Maxwell, this has your name all over it! We don't drink coffee, but boy do we miss that morning jolt. We got it this morning. Not because we a...

Eco-Inspired Design by Tammy Roy

The moment we stumbled upon the work of metal artist Tammy Roy, we fell in love with both her unique pieces and her eco-friendly design philosophy. Roy, who describes herself as "completely obsesse...

Room in a Wardrobe: Second Skin by Rene Siebum

We love furniture that is multi-functional and space saving. This beautiful wardrobe designed by Rene Siebum not only functions as a light fixture, bookcase, closet and room divider, but with the doo...

How To: Make Easy Green Wreaths All Year Round

Last year's Green Wreath Roundup by Rachel showed off wreaths made from recycled cardboard, LED lights, buttons, succulents and even zip-ties. Here are a few more ideas and tips to completing a succ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Conservation Restroom

When we were little ones growing up in drought prone California there was a hippy saying when hitting the loo, "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down." We still adhere to that...

Little Pond Takes Green Design Seriously

We've found a company giving old furniture new eco-friendly and gorgeous life (the above being before photos, of course) as well as helping homeowners navigate the confusing waters of green design...

Stumped Lamps by Egg Collective

These tree stumps are a side table and a light! Made from fallen sycamores and miscellaneous light bulbs these side table lamps are a creative, beautiful and functional....

Life in 140 Square Feet
Natural Home

Gregory Paul Johnson lives in a tiny, off-the-grid house. But, instead of telling us about the environmental benefits (and there are plenty), he's focused on how moving into a 140-sq-foot house has ...

Q&A With Michelle Kaufmann
Mind Body Green

Michelle Kaufmann, as you probably know, is an architect, designer, and advocate for smarter and more sustainable designs. mkDesigns actually led the movement towards prefabricated green homes. We ...

The Green X-Ray House
South San Francisco

A home remodel in and of itself is a daunting task, but tack on making the home green as well and it can quickly seem too overwhelming to bear. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be. The City of South ...

Restored Church Converted Into Home

High ceilings, dramatic rooms, period details and stained glass are just some of the benefits of living in a recently restored church. This one was recently restored by a couple in Kyloe, Northumber...

LED Spark Light Sculptures by Daniel Becker

We're big fans of atmospheric lighting (we rely on lamps in our living room and never use the overhead lights). So we're right on board with Daniel Becker's Spark system, a series of energy-efficie...

Window Farms: Hydroponic Edible Gardens for Urban Windows

In order to help urban dwellers grow food inside their apartment all year long, Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray developed Window Farms — vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edi...

PUYL: Pump Your Light

Check out this cook green gadget: the PUYL is a combination bicycle pump and portable light. But the simply clever part is that the light’s battery is charged as you pump…...

A Ribbon Apartment in Manhattan

Young designer Alan YL Chan took on the difficult task of personally renovating his 400 square feet dark, cramped and deteriorating Manhattan apartment – all while living in it and only 3 years ou...

Modern Coconut Doormats by Angela Adams

We've blogged about sustainable Coconut Fiber doormats before but not these from Angela Adams. The newest addition to her modern line of environmentally-sensitive products are these beautiful and si...

Inspiration: Crate Bookshelf by 20.87 EStudio

Cross the re-purposed milk crate trend with the "boxes into shelving" trend and you come up with this bookshelf by 20.87 Estudio... ...

Casa Familia: Eco-Tech Coastal Living

Name: Casa Familia Location: San Diego, Calif. (Point Loma) Type: 1950 home Kevin wrote in to share this this "reinterpretation of quintessential Southern California courtyard houses", a coastal r...

Brian Jungen's Repurposed Sculpture
The National Museum of the American Indian

Brian Jungen uses common, mass-produced objects to make powerful sculpture. Currently on view at The National Museum of the American Indian in DC: totem poles made of golf bags, golf balls and paint...

Inspiration: Beer Bottle Partitions

Beer bottles – what can’t they be used for? During the renovation the historic and now defunct Milwaukee Blatz Brewery, salvaged and original Blatz bottles were turned into warm amber pivoting p...

Patrick Blanc in San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle

We're fans of Patrick Blanc's work. He is, after all, the man who essentially invented vertical gardens. So, we're pretty thrilled that he's bringing his amazing green walls to San Francisco......

Salvaged Design Ideas from the SmogShoppe
LA Times

The SmogShoppe, an event space in LA (used for weddings, movie screenings, and the like) was a former smog-check station before Sherry Walsh and Miguel Nelson transformed it. ...

Pansonic's Eco House of the Future

Yesterday we saw Panasonic's attempt at the first robotic dish washer. Today, we're going to check out Dvice's house tour of their Eco Ideas House over in Japan. You can check out their arsenal of g...

Team Germany Wins Solar Decathlon

Team Germany’s surPLUShome won this year’s Solar Decathlon, making it their second victory in a row. With a façade covered almost entirely in solar panels, the house created twice the amount of...

Welcome Hometta: Sustainable Modern Home Plans

The pinkcomma gallery is presenting twenty-five designs from Hometta, a new company that has commissioned emerging practices from across the country to produce small, sustainable, contemporary home ...

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