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Carpet America Recovery Effort

As you may recall, we really, really don't like carpet. We kind of loathe it even though we admit that sometimes it serves a purpose and is the appropriate flooring choice for certain rooms....

TerraMai: Reclaimed Woods From Around the World

TerraMai is a great resource for reclaimed woods – they source a variety of places such as railway ties, warehouses, mills, barns, wine barrels, tanks any other previously used wood that may be salv...

TING Vintage Belt Floor Mat

Remember TING? They're the ones who make those cool pillows and hammocks out of seat belts. Well, we have no place for a hammock, but we did just come across this floor mat. It's a little pricey, ...

Some Smith & Fong Bamboo to be FSC Certified

Bamboo is one of those products about which it's easy to make assumptions. It's easy to assume bamboo is green. It's easy to assume bamboo is renewable. It's easy to assume that because it's natura...

Peach Pit Floors

The Peach Pit floor we spotted over at inhabitat falls into the category of super cool, if not yet super green......

Why It's Green: Bamboo

Bamboo -- it's everywhere. If it exists (take computer mouses and utensils for example) it can be made using bamboo. But, how green does that make it? Well, when it comes to computer mouses, we're ...

re-nest July 2007: Good Questions

Good Questions: Where Do I Find a Good (looking) Green Bed? In July, we were just getting started and we were thrilled to see so many questions in our inbox. Here are a few of the best! [links af...