Exotic Home Lets You Own a Little Piece of the World

Exotic Home, a furniture store located in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a complete home furnishings store that evokes a sense of world travel with its furniture and accessories. In addition to the natural and beautiful artwork, sculpture and accessories offered for purchase at Exotic Home, the store sells furniture made from the coconut palm.  The coconut palm helps farmers in Fiji produce more sustainable crops and is also sourced for beautiful, environmentally responsible furniture. The store also features beautiful hand carved [...]

Vivavi Home Furnishings
Modern Green Interior Design for Your Home

After deciding your personal spaces need an upgrade or touch of a magic remodeling wand, why not choose from an array of pieces that stay in line with your eco-friendly frame of mind? Offering a wide range of modern furniture and furnishings, Vivavi showcases the latest green interior decor, including bamboo cocktail tables, salvaged wood veneer wall sconces, FSC certified zebrawood mirrors, and organic cotton duvets.

The next time you’re looking for new seating, bedding, lighting, tables, and other eco-friendly home [...]

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 [...]

My Eco Bag – The Shopping Solution for Reducing and Reusing

Reusable shopping bags are a must have for every eco-savvy consumer, but a normal family grocery trip isn’t always easy with typical reusable totes. Kristen Brown, founder of Green Waste Solutions, has created the answer – a convenient, easy to store system of 4 versatile shopping bags.

My Eco Bag System can replace 15 to 30 disposable bags with each use, eliminating about 700 bags per family from the waste stream each year. Each bag is designed to be [...]

Creating a Luxurious Shabby Chic Room with Vintage Pieces

Shabby-chic is a beautiful style that combines old and new to create a unique feel and look. Fancy chandeliers dripping with crystals might be paired with an old shelf that has lost most of its paint. Vintage fabrics might be tucked inside an old guitar case. The overall effect is gorgeous, but to get there, one needs the right pieces. Below, we’ll discuss how to create a beautiful shabby chic room with vintage elements.

In the shabby-chic room [...]

Ship Green This Season with Eco-Friendly Packaging Materials

Thousands of packages will be making their way around the globe over the next few weeks as gifts are exchanged with family and friends both near and far. Holiday shipping can have a huge impact on the planet – not just the fossil fuels burned to transport those gifts, but the boxes, paper, tape, and other packaging supplies that make their way to the landfill after the season is over.

There are lots of ways to minimize the environmental impact [...]

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 [...]

The Greenest Christmas Tree: Tips for Eco-Friendly Holiday Decor

Thanksgiving and Black Friday have come and gone; holiday decorations are going up all over town – what’s the most eco-friendly way to deck the halls this holiday season?

The biggest concern is finding an eco-friendly Christmas tree. Are artificial trees better for the planet or can you enjoy the beauty of a live tree as well as a green lifestyle? Trimming the tree also deserves attention, from the ornaments and garland to the power-consuming lights. Here are [...]

Introducing the First Eco-Luxe Neck Pillow

In an effort to place a dent in the $50 billion-per-year industry aimed at easing symptoms associated with neck and back pain, Dr. Raymond Hall (Hall Innovations) has created a luxury, therapeutic neck pillow fashioned out of eco-friendly materials. The Pillo1 is the first eco-luxe neck pillow to offer high-tech therapy that additionally addresses sustainability issues. Comprised of soy-based foam and Talalay latex, the Pillo1 undergoes a solvent-free production process.

Thanks to ‘Bell Core Technology,’ the Pillo1 provides a restful night [...]

Tips to Minimize Your Thanksgiving Waste

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at The Green Connoisseur! As you’re preparing to settle down to your holiday feast and spend time with family and friends, consider a few tips to make your Thanksgiving more eco-friendly and minimize your household’s impact on the planet.

Break out the china: Resist the urge to use disposable plates and utensils this year. Not only will real tableware and cloth napkins improve the ambience of your gathering, they will drastically reduce the [...]