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Green Home Chicago: Green Design Center

Located in Fulton Market District, Green Home Chicago is a must stop shop for anyone looking to green their home. Whether you’re looking for paint or tile for your bathroom or a cool piece of recl...

Gift Fair 2009: Style de Vie

We totally have a thing for vintage ephemera, like maps and old educational wall charts. So we immediately fell in love with Style de Vie's booth at the Gift Fair. (Maxwell also told us to be on th...

Green Home Environmental Products

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...

Grand Street Gardens

We’ve been spending a lot of time at Grand Street Gardens recently for our deck renovation, to spruce up our building’s planter boxes, and just to explore. And at this year-round organic garden ...

GreenMaker is Now Green Depot

click thumbnails for larger pics As of November Chicago’s local green building supply store, GreenMaker is now part of the nation’s largest chain of green building supply stores, Green Depot. The...

Greenfeet.com

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...

Green Home Overhaul: Rebekah and Stephen Hren
Preservation March/April 2009

In the March/April issue of Preservation we came across a short article on restoring and greening a historic fixer-upper. Rebekah and Stephen Hren embarked on a serious project when they decided to...

Good Reading: Sunset's One Block Diet Blog
Sunset

One of our very favorite blog reads lately has been Sunset's One Block Diet. The premise is simple: the magazine is based in Northern California, where "locavorism" is just a way of life. But the edit...

Greenest SF House?
The San Francisco Chronicle

If you were to imagine the greenest home in San Francisco, would it look like this house on 39th Avenue in the city's outer Sunset neighborhood? (To tell the truth, we were expecting something with a...

Green Gadget Picks from Inhabitat's Jill Fehrenbacher
Blogging The New York Times 2.19.09

Jill Fehrenbacher, editor of Inhabitat.com and founder of the Greener Gadgets conference, recently went shopping with The New York Times to pick out some sustainable green gadgets, including the Aqu...

Green Style from Down to Earth Design

It's hard to walk out your front door without being pitched the newest "green" product, but it's not always as easy in DC to find companies devoted to beautiful design AND completely eco-friendly pr...

Green Depot Opens First LIVE Store in New York!

We were privileged last night to attend a preview of Green Depot's new LIVE store (their term for homecare, design and lifestyle products) on the Bowery in New York City, officially opening to the p...

Greener Carpet Made from Corn by Mohawk

There are a couple new lines of carpet from Mohawk are easier to clean (with just water and no harsh chemicals), require 30 percent less energy to make and last just as long. One is made from recycled...

Green, "Earthquake Proof" Sustainable Town Center in CA

California, earthquakes are a natural occurrence that residence learn to accept; just like hurricanes in the South East; and snow and ice for the those in the North. In Portola Valley, California, the...

Green Washing at the Dry Cleaners
The New York Times, 01.12.09

When it comes to dry-cleaning, we've gone over it before. Traditional dry cleaning is not the eco way to go; but now, we're wondering just how eco-minded the all-natural/organic-touting cleaners are. ...

Greenly Engaged - Let the Eco-Wedding Planning Begin ...

After nearly seven years of dating, I proposed to my girlfriend on Christmas day with a ring made of recycled gold and a conflict-free Canadian diamond. Since I consider the "greenness" of everything ...

Good Quote: Buy Local ... Plus 5 More Gift Buying Rules
San Francisco Chronicle 12.14.2008

"It could be the greenest product in the world, but if it came here from China, it doesn't really matter." - Robyn Griggs Lawrence, editor in chief of Natural Home magazine Get Griggs Lawrence's ex...

Green Design Research: C.A.S.E.
Blogging the NYT

This is green design's dream come true--a group of a few dozen students and researchers who work every day to bring sustainable architecture to the masses. That's C.A.S.E., the Center for Architectu...

Green Cabin: On the Rock
Dwell magazine

When Katja and Adam Thom call their Georgian Bay cabin "off the grid," they aren't kidding. It's eight miles from the nearest road and only accessible by boat or seaplane. In the past, we've question...

Green House: Entryway
Body+Soul

We saw this beautiful entryway over at Body+Soul, the now defunct "natural" living magazine from Martha Stewart. The credenza is wheatboard — a material made from straw waste and formaldehyde-fr...

Good Food with Evan Kleiman: Is Vertical Farming in Our Future?

Imagine a situation where 100% of the fresh fruits and vegetables for an entire urban population are grown inside climate-controlled towers right in the city itself. Dr. Dickson Despommier was on this...

Green Housewarming Gift: Basil

We received a fantastic green housewarming gift when we moved into our apartment last month--and it wasn't sage. Unlike that other herb given to you when you move in to a new place, the only thing tha...

Geos: "The First Fossil Fuel Free Community in the USA"

It's one thing to make a few green changes around your own house. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an entire neighborhood of green-minded people? That's likely to happen at Ge...

Great Green Furnishings: from StructuredGreen

I stumbled upon Structured Green furniture yesterday while browsing the Web and was very impressed with their selection of green furniture from various designers. Though most of their items are out of...

Green Gifts: Glasses Made from Salvaged Beer Bottles

This weekend we got a totally unique housewarming gift – tumblers made from salvaged beer bottles. The glasses come from Etsy sellers ReusefulObjects who salvages used bottles such as wine, beer & j...

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