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EcoSystems: Design for a Healthy Planet

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...

Eco-Friendly Furniture & Products by Lucy Renshaw

British designer Lucy Renshaw creates colorful furniture and home accessories out of recycled fabrics and repurposed materials. In making her origin designs, Lucy Renshaw combines experimental ideas...

Eco Acoustic Partition from Recycled Fiber

These wall partitions made from recycled PET plastic offer the benefits of acoustic shielding, great visual design, and can be assembled on-site by the owner sans tools......

EcoPeel Bowls by Luis Caicedo

A few weeks ago Maxwell was at the home of Luis Caicedo to shoot his space for Apartment Therapy's upcoming Small Spaces book. (Great home.) Luis is a designer, and he recently launched a line of...

EcoSystems: Ion Salon in Soho

Ecoysystems, known for their innovative and eco-friendly designs, has created a beautiful and sustainable space for the ION Salon in Soho, New York. Using FSC-certified wood and natural, non-toxic ...

Eco-Savvy Garage
Sunset

It can be sad when someone's garage is cooler than your entire house, but the care owners Susan and Jim Sproull took to minimize the structure's impact on the environment makes up for the fact in ka...

Enos Trays from STAACH

We absolutely love the simplicity and sustainability of STAACH products. The furniture company just released these new trays, just in time for the holiday season. Like most of their other products, ...

Emmanuel Cosgrove's LEED Platinum Rowhouse
Montreal's Gazette

The rowhouse's third floor addition is passively heated with the help of this window wall. Montreal's Gazette took us inside the home of Emmanuel Cosgrove last month. His Plateau rowhouse achieved L...

Environmental Guilt Goldmine
Washington Post 10.06.2008

Given the headlines and the performance of the economy over the past few weeks, most of us are tightening our belts a bit -- separating the necessary expenditures from the unnecessary. So, it came as ...

Ecology-Minded Gardening
Blogging the New York Times

There is definitely something to be said for stocking your garden with the area's native plants. We know the concept well here on Re-Nest. We enjoyed reading this piece in the New York Times this mo...

Eco Wood Grid Shelf

Here's another great small space solution for organizing or displaying your things vertically. Big enough to hold smaller reference books and office supplies on your desk, and small enough to use in ...

Ecohaul

We spotted an ad for Ecohaul on a bus shelter this morning in Berkeley.Looks like they're a Bay Area hauling service that promises to be greener than the rest. The prices are reasonable, if not cheap...

Empty Promises?
Blogging The New York Times

We've got a bone to pick with The New York Times. "The Promise of Green Paint," which ran yesterday, is the kind of story that's easy to get out for a writer under a deadline: compare an entire categ...

Entwined Root Furniture from VivaTerra

We have a thing for driftwood-y decor. VivaTerra's Entwined Root line evokes the sea, though the pieces are made entirely from reclaimed roots, hand planed and sanded... posted originally from: A...

Eco Design Resources

Eco Design Resources seems to have everything you could possibly need to create a green dream home. There's so much to browse through on the Eco Design Resource web site -- so many good products, lin...

equita

"We personally select our products, so we know where they come from, how they are produced and who made them." So says Amanda Parks, one of the three co-founders of equita, which features "an extensi...

Environmental Home Center

Lucky for all of us, Environmental Home Center in Seattle is one of the few green retailers that has not only a pleasant showroom, which happens to be huge, but also a full-fledged commitment to web a...

EcoHome Improvement

What could be less like shopping in a big box store than being offered a cup of tea while you choose a paint color? That's what it's like when you visit EcoHome Improvement in Berkeley, California. W...