Green Building Supply: Your Eco-Friendly Home Center

Anyone who has ever tackled a home improvement or building project knows that many materials and supplies are available to consumers from hardware and home improvement stores. However, fewer options are available to people who want to buy safe, eco-friendly materials. Sometimes trying to locate, research or budget for these materials can be frustrating and may leave you with many questions. What does the label really mean? How and where is this product made? And, for many, the question that [...]

Green Walls and Living Roofs

Taking Sustainable Landscaping to New Heights

The latest trends in sustainable landscape design have the ability to be elegantly luxurious and vibrant, without placing a strain on natural resources and the environment.  From urban townhomes to country estates, green roofs and living walls are a lively and eco-friendly accent to your landscaping.

Green Roofs and Walls Explained

Green walls and living roofs both utilize the same basic landscaping concept – turning existing, otherwise unused space into a flourishing and thriving planting [...]

Eco-Friendly Kitchen Design

Whether you’re remodeling your current kitchen or building a new home, an eco-friendly kitchen design can improve the health of your family and reduce your home’s energy consumption. There are many different options available to make your kitchen greener – from sustainably sourced countertops and cabinets to environmentally conscious flooring and accessories.

Eco-Friendly Countertops

Rather than nonrenewable granite or chemically treated laminate counters, choose a sustainable, toxin-free material for your family kitchen. Bamboo, reclaimed wood, and stainless steel [...]

It’s Hip to be Warm

Keeping warm this winter is important to keep you and your family healthy and happy. Most conventional means of heating homes are ultimately through the burning of fossil fuels or wood, but heat doesn’t just come from turning up the thermostat or throwing a log on the fire any more. The cold of winter is just beginning and it’s not too late to invest in an eco-friendly and chic alternative to conventional heat. Check out an eco-fireplace to [...]

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring…

Being luxurious can sometimes mean that you are able to take that extra step towards sustainability and green living. While water has long been on the radar as an environmental concern, for most Americans, rain has barely been considered a solution. While we, the eco-conscious, will turn off the water while brushing our teeth, take shorter showers, and conserve water in the laundry process, we allow the rain that covers our homes and communities to go down the [...]

Thanksgiving 2009: an Eco-conscious Affair

Thanksgiving 2009: an Eco-conscious Affair

Today marks one week before America celebrates Thanksgiving. This historically based holiday is regarded as a joyous time to gather family, enjoy turkey, and eat in excess. While food is a large part of the Thanksgiving experience, for the luxurious, eco-conscious host or guest at a Thanksgiving affair this year, food is not the only way to green your Thanksgiving.

Electricity

Late November is often a cold time of year. While you certainly want all [...]

Renewable Resource Alert: 10 Facts About Hemp

In an ongoing fight to shake a bad reputation, hemp is successfully reclaiming its identity as a renewable, sustainable resource with a wide-range of possibilities. An increasing number of people no longer associate hemp with the mood-enhancing drug marijuana and are aware of the many benefits to cultivating industrial hemp, which produces a versatile fiber and oil found in many new products on the market. In this post, explore the ins and outs of hemp and some of the ways [...]

Eco Chic Green Flooring with Leather Belts

We’ve highlighted a number of the best options for eco-friendly flooring in an earlier post, including chic bamboo and cork, sophisticated recycled glass, and gorgeous reclaimed wood floors. London-based TING has introduced a new look for green flooring – using recycled leather belts.

Vintage belts are carefully hand cleaned with a nontoxic solution, shaved to provide a uniform width, and then hand assembled with water-based glue to create unique and intriguing tiles. TING leather flooring tiles are available in [...]

Brighten Your World and Your Walls with Bungaloo Color Liquid

Eco-friendly paint gets a makeover with expressive, personalized color liquids from Bungaloo. Eighty vivid shades of VOC-free color make Bungaloo the perfect choice for any room, any mood, and any style. Bungaloo color liquids are more than paint – they’re fun reflections of living.

Color with a Cause

Bungaloo isn’t your typical paint shop. The new company operates online and offers a unique collection of designer-selected colors to make redecorating convenient and fun. The entire paint shopping [...]

Flow2 Kitchen: The Space That Does it All

Imagine a kitchen that could grow your food, keep it fresh, cook it, and compost it – all in one convenient, eco-friendly space. The Flow2 kitchen concept can do just that, plus it offers plenty of storage and requires a fraction of the electricity used by even an Energy Star rated kitchen!

Designed by Studio Gorm, the Flow2 kitchen concept reduces, reuses, and recycles in the area of our homes that typically wastes the most. The minimalist, self-sufficient space [...]