Welcome: Getting to Know You

Hello AT: Green Home readers!

This week things are going to be a little different around here: We've been going full speed since mid-July and now we're going to slow down for just a moment with the hope of getting to know you a little better.

We're curious about you -- and, the better we know you, the better we hope we'll be at bringing you the things you're looking for.

So, that's what this week will be about. You.

What to expect: lots of surveys about you, your habits, and your home; plenty of questions that we hope you'll answer; and some discussion about what "green" means to all of us.

We encourage you to vote early and vote often. We value your feedback tremendously. After all, this is about you. So, how can we make what we do more valuable to you as a reader?

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Comments (7)

I'd like to know more about affordable green furniture and home accessories. I already buy used, but how about new stuff that isn't just for the eco-conscious wealthy?

posted by melissagbl on October 15th 2007 at 8:38am
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Melissa,

Thanks for the comment! We'll start digging...

posted by jonathanb - co-editor, AT/re-nest on October 15th 2007 at 10:00am
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I live in Marrakech and so can't purchase a number of regular green items (like bio-degradable stuff). Any chance that you can help with DIY green items? Like how to recycle stuff to make it useful? I am handy with a hammer:-)

posted by Maryam in Marrakesh on October 15th 2007 at 2:31pm
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I would love to see more about doing and less about buying.

Like the website to get off of catalog mailing lists -- www.catalogchoice.org

So much about really being green is about consuming less. How does that fit into the Apartment Therapy lifestyle?

posted by chenoameg on October 16th 2007 at 6:00am
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Ditto what chenoameg says.

Having spent part of my former career working with environmental scientists, I'd also like to see more care given to fact-checking of "green" claims. Certainly, some issues are just controversial, with ambiguous evidence, and there's no answer that everyone will accept, and that's fine.

But there's also a strain of "romantic green" here, where y'all go nuts about the evils of plastic bags, then promote as "green" things that are less recyclable than the Bags of Evil because the things are pretty and look kind of whole-grain and chunky and hip.

posted by wende in the twin cities on October 16th 2007 at 6:31am
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ditto chenoameg and wende. More about green habits - biking to work, downsizing, taking green vacations, shopping locally. That sort of thing.

I'm a big fan of Zen habits (zenhabits.net) because they have in-depth tutorials and first-person accounts rather than links to products. I'd like to see more of that here. And by all means, tap readers for content. Guest posts are fun.

posted by mmadden on October 16th 2007 at 11:34am
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Though I support manufacturers' efforts to create greener home furnishings, I'd also like to see previews of more reasonably priced "green" furniture and, if possible, accompanied by some sort of evaluation. Most of us won't get to a showroom to see these pieces, but when I choose to seek them out, I'd like to get some idea whether the piece is worth my visit.

posted by John H on October 18th 2007 at 5:22am
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