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Posts tagged “inspiration”

Dragging Your Feet: Making Green Compromises, Part 2

Last week, we talked about some of the compromises we'd made in our going green, deciding that it was, as the saying goes, about progress not perfection. We wanted to make our going green as easy a...

Inspiration: Mobile Home + Office Trailer
The Los Angeles Times

On the Mexican coast of Baja located in the Guadalupe wine-making region, architects Alejandro D’Acosta and Claudia Turrent have been performing experiments in green design for wineries — bu...

Inspiration: Recycled Sculpture Show

Trash to treasure — or art, in this case. The Love London Green Festival is currently providing over two dozen artists from around the world the opportunity to showcase their recycled sculptur...

Travel by Train for the Environment and Inspiration
10 Best Train Stations for Layovers

Layovers and travel delays can be a drag unless you're "stuck" at a cool place. Imagine spending your layover sipping coffee under a domed atrium with a 4,000 square meter tropical garden with exoti...

Look! "Nothing's an Accident"

We like the idea behind this little book we spotted at Ecohome Improvement in Berkeley. Rather than throwing away paint that didn't come out the right color, they paint a little swatch in a book of "...

Green Maps for Greener Travel

Want to travel environmentally but don’t know where to go? We’ve posted before about Green Maps of Chicago Neighborhoods, but what about green maps for the rest of the world?...

Look! Another Grass-Free Yard

This is a front yard we pass on our morning walk. When the grass came out and these plants went in, we were more than a little skeptical. There just didn't seem to be enough, and the planting scheme...

Blogging The Architectural Forum... from 1937!

Recently, we were given a 1937 issue of Architectural Forum dedicated to domestic interiors. We've been fascinated by all the attention given to the home by leading architects and designers of the da...