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 [...]

Reclaimed Furniture: Luxurious Home Decor

The Green Connoisseur has featured gorgeous eco-friendly furniture and reclaimed wood furniture several times, showing the luxurious side of ‘green’ home decor.

Whether it’s a vintage piece that has been reclaimed and put to use, or a new piece of furniture that has been created with recycled products – eco-friendly furniture can be luxurious and beautiful. Here are a few new pieces for you to feast your eyes on, all available at Urban Woods.

The Wilcox Collection

This bedroom set is clean [...]

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 [...]

Siblings Seal Reclaimed Wood Deal for Great Furniture and Accessories

Brother and sister team of Aaron and Megan Pahmier have put their art and carpentry talents together and created a company called Kindling. Working mainly with recycled bits of wood, they make small but graceful pieces that are unique enough to draw the eye in any interior layout. Aaron’s carpentry work for Green Sawn, a locally sourced furniture making company, provides the scrap wood needed to make these vases, picture holders, and little votive candle holders.

At the moment, the best [...]

The Green Dorm: College Life Goes Eco

College students across the nation will be heading off to new dorm rooms next month – and many are packing eco-friendly essentials to make their living quarters greener. From organic cotton sheets and bamboo storage to water filtration systems and biodegradable trash bags, today’s generation of college goers are doing their part to improve the planet.

Universities Take Initiative
Colleges aren’t leaving all the responsibility on their students. The University of Pennsylvania offers energy-save light bulbs for students’ [...]

Organic Bouquet: Sustainable Eco-Gifts

Flowers play an integral role in birthday surprises, setting the mood on Valentine’s Day, and expressing an undying love. Organic flowers and gifts allow eco-minded consumers to support their earth-friendly lifestyle by choosing gestures that place less harm on the environment.

Since 2001, Organic Bouquet has been delivering sustainably grown flowers to thousands upon thousands of customers around the world. Leading the way in the floral industry, the company has set impressive standards from establishing the first carbon offset program to [...]

RoboSteel: Transforming Scrap Metal into Amazing Works of Art

We’ve seen recycled works of art before, but RoboSteel, located in Ireland, is creating some of the most amazing recycled art ever.

After having connected with RoboSteel on Twitter, I went to check out their masterpieces and was absolutely amazed.

RoboSteel uses recycled metal (mostly steel) to create a variety of sculptures, both small and enormous. Even better, clients can order custom pieces to be created – and all the sculptures are one of a kind!

RoboSteel’s Materials:

All of the sculptures are created [...]

Eco-Art Lends Sustainable Style with Recycled Metal

Scrap metal and discarded industrial waste take on creative new forms when artist Tim Pace gets his hands on them. Pace’s Eco-Art brings new life to ordinary junk – and the results are stunning to say the least!

About the Artist

Tim Pace began his career in ‘found art’ in 1995 – designing a unique 3-foot tall golfer as a garden sculpture gift from excess metal scraps. Originally an electrician, Pace has no formal training in art but has created [...]

VivaTerra – Living in Harmony with Nature

Helping consumers live a healthy life and make the world a better place for future generations, VivaTerra (which translates into ‘living earth’) is dedicated to marketing products that promote a harmonious existence with nature. Supporting VivaTerra means embracing a company committed to delivering high-quality, organic, sustainable products that highlight eco-friendly materials, designs, and intent. Below, enjoy just a sampling of what you can find on the VivaTerra website:

Home & Garden

Filled with lighting options, outdoor décor, and door mats made out [...]

Environmental Artist John Dahlsen

An appreciation for art is a commendable trait in any individual. Art in all forms is about expression, feelings, thoughts, and moods – and conveying those to others. Environmental art takes all of those things and combines it with a passion to be good to our Earth – and that is truly commendable.

John Dahlsen is an environmental artist who creates sculptures and ‘paintings’ with found objects, typically from Australian beaches. For more than ten years, John has been combing the [...]