Photo courtesy of Megan McCormick, under Creative Commons Share-Alike 2.0 license Hopelessly Addicted to Craig’s List I have to admit, I am a Craig’s List junkie. Craig’s List is a service where people post whatever they want to sell at a designated price and people contact them through their Craig’s list email. Go to the [...]
May 2007
Since I built my home to be non-toxic, furnishing it has become a dilemma for me. Many of my own pieces are worn from my children using them as jungle gyms, and the color scheme of my new house is very different than my old house. I could buy furniture from companies that use woods [...]
I thought it would be fun to create a page where everyone can post how they reuse “stuff” that would ordinarily go into the trash. I will go first. How many of you visit fast food places? Come on, be honest. Wendy’ s is actually one of my favorite places. With four kids participating in [...]
I happened to be on the Environmental Working Group’s website checking my facts on an upcoming story about used furniture, when I noticed a press release today about the launching of EWG’s Skin Deep website with updated safety information for more than 25,000 personal care products. According to EWG, personal care products are not monitored [...]
I promised myself today Iwould write about all the amazing things I saw at LIGHTFAIR 2007 today but I got distracted because I was blogging on everyone else’s sites. Its’ funny. If you read my answers to people’s posts on Green Options, Debra Dadd, Green Homes, Jetson Green, Treehugger, etc, you will see a different [...]
I have always been fascinated with wind turbines. However, I only thought there was only one kind of turbine. Horizontal. To my surprise, I discovered Belgium based Gual Industrie StatoEolien Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine, which created a vertical wind turbine. Interestingly, the Company claims its vertical wind turbine is thirty percent more efficient than a horizontal turbine. Their product [...]
Lighting Fair NYC this year was home to amazing light technology from energy efficiency featuring LED technology to the reduction of mercury content in the fluorescent bulbs. As an environmentalist I was impressed by the advancement of technology in lighting energy efficiency but was scared at the same time that we as consumers may [...]
Photo courtesy of Ecoforms I subscribe to both Home Magazine and Vegetarian Times, and noticed they both featured Ecoforms, organic biodegradable pots. What’s the odds that two very different magazine would feature the same product? There must be something to this product. I have to look into these pots. The pots are being distributed to retailers all [...]
