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Stokke Care Changing Table Grows with Your Child

Stokke's nursery products go easy on the environment, as they're made with untreated wood, organic fibers, and packaged and shipped with environmental feasibility in mind. Their Care Changing Table...

Second Glass: Auto Windshields Zoom Into New Life

A few years ago we accompanied our mechanic on a trip to an auto graveyard — row upon endless row of old cars scavenged for their parts, with more cars on flatbeds waiting to be squeezed in be...

Salvaged Wood Farm Tables by Lorimer Workshop

We’ve written about David Ellison of Lorimer Workshop’s tables on Apartment Therapy before, but he's actually located right here in Rhode Island and we saw an excellent example of his handiwork ...

Sustain Landscape Design

Many of you have been blessed with a green thumb, as we've seen by the Great Outdoors you've shown us this month. But there are those of you (admit it) that won't be winning any Green Thumb Wars an...

Shimna
ICFF 2009

click thumbnails for larger pics Shimna came to ICFF this year with their beautiful wood furniture, and we took notice — particularly of the Liffey bed (shown above) with its underbed storage d...

Simply Sustainable on the Izu Peninsula
Blogging Dwell

Remember when we asked you if you could live in a 250 sq-foot apartment? Well, what about a 20-by-8-foot wooden box with ten foot ceilings? ...

Snake Island Furniture

Toronto's Snake Island Furniture is a fairly young company "reclaiming, reusing and re-envisioning" wood harvested from Toronto's forests. Their collection includes coffee tables, sideboards, media...

Survey: What Do You Want to Cure This Spring?

Image via Jasmine's Home Makeover The 2009 Spring Cure launches today on Apartment Therapy, and we're enthusiastic about gettin' down and dirty in our home. We can already think of of a number of "...

Sunset Magazine: Eco-friendly Small Towns in the West
Which ones did they miss?

While many of us strive to maintain a green home and lifestyle, it doesn't hurt to live in a town with similar ideals. Living in a green town usually means improved recycling programs, better eco-frie...

Salvage Love
Blogging Dwell

Redesign Alert! Have you seen Dwell's shiny new website yet? If you haven't, you should cruise right on over to dwell.com right now (well ... after you see what we've got going on here). Their new de...

Saving Energy at Home
Blogging National Geographic

While traveling for work last week, I picked up a copy of the most recent National Geographic at the airport. I read it from cover to cover--something I don't normally do with magazines--and was truly...

Steelcase Leap Chair in the Test Lab

click for more pics Product: Leap Chair Designer: Steelcase Price: $850 - $1600* Rating: Strong Recommend** Though our recent Test Lab experience with Herman Miller's Embody Chair was a successful ...

Solar Industry Growth Dimming with Economy
Blogging San Francisco Chronicle 01.20.2009

Despite the seriously depressing economy, up until just recently the solar industry seemed to be doing pretty well. However, it looks like things aren't quite as bright as we'd hoped. ...

Sustainable Sites: Green Rated Gardens
New York Times 01.07.2009

January is not the most obvious time to be talking about gardens, but you'll be surprised to see what's blooming in the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC. ...

Sustainable Gingerbread Houses
New York Times 12.11.2008

Last week the New York Times featured a cute article about a green inspired gingerbread houses. We love this second place winner – it’s so different from the traditional gingerbread house and it k...

Seabrook Mixed Use Community:
An Example of New Urbanism, and Somewhere I'd Love to Live

Green, mixed use communities are popping up all over the country - emphasizing an intelligent combination of housing, recreation, shared space and community involvement. Seabrook mixed use development...

Stylish Modern Homes from Shipping Containers
Archinect

We've covered shipping container homes on AT before (here, here and here), but we're continually impressed by the possibilities of this malleable recycled material. Archinect has a good article righ...

Small Space Surprises
Natural Home Magazine

The two pictures above are hiding something, can you guess what it is? This month’s issue of Natural Home features an 836 square foot straw bale home made primarily with salvaged materials. If that ...

Sport Utility Bikes

If you are looking for a replacement for your gas-guzzling SUV, but still need to haul the occasional load, we've got the fix for you: a SUB. That's right—a sport utility bicycle....

Spending Green: Shining a Light on SF Solar Options
San Francisco Chronicle 10.10.2008

As much as some of us would love to have a spread of solar panels soaking up energy atop our roofs, we're intimidated by the price tag. And rightfully so: a 2-kilowatt system could set you back as muc...

Sustainable in Seattle
Metropolitan Home

Greg Smith designed his 2,200 square-foot penthouse in downtown Seattle with one goal: to create a sustainable living space that did not advertise the fact. posted originally from: AT:San Francisc...

Styrofoam Cup? Paper Cup? Ceramic Mug?

What's the most green container for a cup of coffee? According to Slate's Green Lantern column, the answer is not as simple as you might expect....

Small Kitchen (in a Drawer!): Electrolux Concept

This kitchen concept, designed by Nojae Park for the annual Electrolux Design Lab Competition, would be a great addition for a tiny house like the Weehouse or DWR's Kithaus....

Seven Tips for Attic Remodels from Oregon Home

A few tips from the September/October edition of Oregon Home magazine can help you realize the potential of the space that's already enclosed within your home—attic remodels are green by default...

Secrets of PVC Free Building
Blogging Natural Home Magazine

PVC is nasty. From start to finish it is a toxic material beginning with hazardous chemicals to make, off-gasses, essentially does not decompose, and causes heath problems such as cancer. So why do we...

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