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Inspiration: RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Typically the Chelsea Flower show is big, bold, bright, over-the-top and expensive. But this year, with the state of the economy, they show took on a resessionista theme, which also translated into ...

Hot or Not? Aviator Sunglasses Lamp

The Celebrity Lamp is made of 40 pairs of mirrored aviator sunglasses. You can buy it at Deeply Madly Living for $1,600. Is it ... Via Treehugger...

Happy Belated Sunflower Guerilla Day

OK, so we missed International Sunflower Guerilla Day by about 24 hours. Who knew? ...

Inspiration: Greensburg, Kansas

The town was literally blown down on May 4, 2007. But, when residents crawled out of their basements to survey the wreckage, they didn't simply see destruction, they saw a chance to start over. ...

Wrapper Rage

Have you experienced wrapper rage? We have, which is why we ended up blogging about can openers as a simple and quick solution to dealing with seemingly bulletproof packaging. While this approach de...

Soap Bank by Designodoubt

If homemade soap-on-a-rope isn't your thing, the folks over at Treehugger turned us on to this nifty little invention for reusing your miniscule soap slivers....

The Greenwashing Index

We don't talk about greenwashing too much here -- but it does come up every once in awhile. We're not in favor of greenwashing; however, when it's uncovered in the right way, it can be sort of amus...

Take Cooler Showers from Planet Green

What's the temperature of your shower? According to Planet Green, hot water heating accounts for 14 percent to 25 percent of the energy consumed in your home. So, super hot and steamy showers use a ...

Cool Green Concept: Eco-cook

This is so simple and so smart. It's France's Kechenyi Camille's honourable-mention entry in the designboom Dining in 2015 competition. It's the Eco-cook. ...

More on CFL Safe Disposal

According to Treehugger, the UK's Environment Agency is planning to put warning labels on CFL packaging regarding safe disposal and what to do should a bulb break. We often find ourselves agreeing ...