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Nine Sixty Nine
A Sustainable Development in Austin

Austin is a pretty hip place, if you ask us — and here's something that makes it even hipper. Just a few miles from downtown, there's a new development going up. A team of architectural firms ...

New from ABC Home: Eco-Intelligence

This past June NYC-based ABC Home launched a new line of eco-friendly home products, equipment and accessories called Eco-Intelligence. Each product explains its energy and cost saving potential and...

Natural Home Magazine's Favorite 10 Homes

Just thought we'd take a moment and say Happy Birthday to Natural Home magazine, one of our favorite places to go for green inspiration. They're celebrating their 10th anniversary by reminiscing ab...

Nansulate - Home Insulation in a Can?

Nansulate Coatings claim effective insulation, corrosion resistance, mold resistance and led encapsulation all in an easy-to-apply paint like product. Too good to be true?...

New Shoppers, Wine Totes & Reusuable Gift Bags
Home and Housewares 2009

click thumbnails for larger picsThis year at the Home and Housewares show the "thinking green" message was still there, loud and clear. As we all know, one of the easiest things to do is to stop usin...

New York Wins: How the Crash Will Reshape America
The Atlantic

Map of U.S. city populations in 1940 This article from the current issue of The Atlantic makes some interesting points about how NYC may hurt a lot less than other US cities and suburbs in this econ...

New Green Products from the International Builders' Show

The 2009 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas is running through tomorrow, and as they should be, new green products are well represented. From the world's first pellet fireplace, to GE's hybri...

New + Notable Green Design
Blogging I.D. Magazine

We are huge fans of I.D. Magazine, so we were intrigued by their list of New + Notable Green products. From bamboo rugs, to efficiently burning grills, they've rounded up the best in green design......

News: Mailman Cuts Out the Junk Mail

What we wouldn't give for a mailman like Steven Padgett. For years, this North Carolina mailman took it upon himself to keep the junk mail out of the mailboxes of the homes on his route. Now, he'll b...

Natural Settings Help Brain Fatigue

Here's one more reason to do all you can to preserve what's left of the natural environment: simply looking at a green landscape can help refresh your brain....

New Green Mag: Positively Green

We're always on the lookout for "green issues" and new green magazines, so we were surprised when we noticed Positively Green last night at our local drugstore. Where had this new green magazine -- w...

New Green Lifestyle Mag: Boho

At the bookstore the other day, we checked out Boho, a new green lifestyle publication billed as "a bohemian's guide to style." It focuses more on fashion than home design, but there were a few blog...

NYT: Wind Turbines, Wallpaper & Inexpensive Gifts
House & Home Roundup: 12.13.07

Homespun Electricity, From the Wind. The rise of residential wind-turbines. Determining Whether a Turbine Will Work.... posted originally from: AT:New York...

NYT: Modern Green Retreat

Greener, Happier. Architects Paul McKean and Amy Donohue tackled The Complexities of Keeping It Small and Simple when they built a weekend home outside Portland, Oregon in the Hood River Valley. The...

NYTimes: Is Green Consumerism Diabolically Stupid?

Perhaps, like us, you feel a creeping anxiety about the wholesale "greening" of the American consumer market? Greenwashing aside, perhaps you question the efficacy of "light green" strategies that adv...

Normal Room

What is normal? The answer to that question depends on where you live. We found Normal Room via Dwell's blog and have been clicking away all day. For those of us who've gone green to live in smaller...

NYT: Artek

Birch (& Bamboo). Finnish furniture company Artek was written up in Sunday's New York Times Magazine. Out of the Woods looks at Artek's commitment to sustainability — over seventy years of "good qua...

NYT: Piet Hein Eek

Humble Materials. We were super-excited for the newest T Style Magazine: Design that arrived this past weekend. One of our favorite pieces profiled Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek in The Imperfectionis...