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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...

Austin's Great Outdoors Nursery
Austin

We placed the word "nursery" in this post's title so as to not confuse it with the phrase "the great outdoors," but this South Austin business is so much more than just a nursery. While we can't wa...

Andrew Moe: Handmade Furniture from Reclaimed Lumber
ICFF 2009

This was one of our favorite new booths. Andrew Moe showed off a super simple line of ash furniture, The Oslo Line, made of reclaimed lumber that had relatively low price points, compared to the su...

American Artisan Collection by Ethan Allen

Paying homage to its Vermont roots, Ethan Allen has come up with American Artisans — a stateside produced furniture collection — that uses sustainably harvested Appalachian hardwoods and...

Annie Leonard's Stuff-Free Berkeley Home
San Francisco Chronicle

Annie Leonard, one of Time Magazine's 2008 Environmental Heroes, lives in a charming Craftsman-ish bungalow in Berkeley, Ca. What won't surprise you, if you're familiar with Leonard's work (have you ...

A Food Revolution?
New York Times 3.21.09

We spent time harvesting my mother's garden over the weekend, whisking pounds of kale, spinach, sugar snap peas, onions, turnips, and carrots back to the city with us. Farm-fresh food, dirt still clin...

A Biodegradable Dog TentFrom the Dwell Blog

Here's a fun project for hardcore design enthusiasts who are also hardcore pet lovers: a modular, collapsible, biodegradable dog tent. You know your Fido wants one....

Another Look at Straw Bale Construction

The first time I heard of straw bale construction was via Jen's Green Tour of Nord's Straw Bale Home. It seems like a rather unique idea, but in fact it's used all over the country and known for its l...

Adam Neale and Megan Freitas' Dream House
San Francisco Chronicle

Adam Neale and Megan Freitas' Inverness home is a mix of modernism and Bernard Maybeck's Arts and Crafts-era building style. Chronicle design editor Zahid Sardar calls it "sensible" and even goes so ...

A Beautiful and Somewhat Green Home in the Trees

For those of you who've seen this month's Architectural Digest with Brad Pitt on the cover, you may have already seen this beautiful house built in the Colorado Rockies. Like most homes in Architectur...

Amenity: Organic Holiday Textiles

Oh, Amenity, how we love you...now if only we could afford you. But there's good news for our fellow big-print, organic-fabric lovers! Amenity's new — very lovely — organic holiday line ...

Alternative Energy Faces Headwind
New York Times 10.20.2008

Ever since we started sensing this financial crisis, we've been wondering how it might affect all things green -- green building, green consumerism, green remodels... Now we're seeing how it is adver...

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...

Alleys as Parks

There are 914 miles of alleys in Los Angeles—and most sit unused. A team of planners at USC is working to change that with a pilot program to turn them into parks....

A Green Experiment: 7 Days Without Plastic

7 days without plastic. It sounds impossible, right? Well, actually, we think it probably is. But, Zadi Diaz over at EPIC FU is giving up the bad, unnecessary plastic for 7 days. At least she's t...

Another Green Roof from Recycled Rubber: By EcoStar

I dread the day that we'll have to replace our roof - not only for the expense, but the waste that will be generated. Tin and copper roofs have been gaining popularity in our area, perhaps due to the ...

A Gentle Reminder to Buy Local

We found this article in the New York Times on the cost of shipping groceries around the world very thought-provoking, and wanted to share it with you. posted originally from: AT:Kitchen...

An Ohio Green Home in Progress

We recently discovered the Nutter Residence Blog, a site dedicated to the greening of Krista Atkins Nutter's new home in Milford, Ohio. Krista, an interior designer with a background in architecture...

A Glam, Glitzy and Green Hillsborough Mansion
SF Chronicle: 07.02.08

Two questions for you, dear readers: Can you be green and glamorous? And live in a 6,000-square foot Hillsborough home? Michael and Lisa Rubenstein think so. Susan Fornoff's article in today's Chron ...

Audit Home for Energy Efficiency
SF Chronicle: 04.19.08

Holistic isn't a word we often associate with our home. Yet it makes sense that all of a home's systems -- heating, insulation, ventilation, lighting -- are related to one another. Last month, Anh-Mi...

A Green Deal: Brown Furniture

If you don't share the moment's obsession with all things midcentury modern, it turns out you can score some great deals on high-quality antiques of a certain style called "brown furniture"—Vict...

AT on: Perfect Little Ecosystems

Aaron blogged this article on life in Shanghai earlier, but we wanted to echo his remarks that it's a "must read" and zero in on a few sections that really struck us (see page 2 and 3). They have to d...