Updated 12/11/2011 Just to keep you updated, this is my third installment regarding my favorite top ten green building products that I used when I built my house in 2003 to 2005. Hands down, my third item on my favorite building products’ list is Sierra Pine’s no added formaldehyde medium density fiber board. At the [...]
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Sunset, one of Environ biocomposite’s® Products. See updated below 12/29/2011 Just to give you a recap, in my prior article, “What’s Next in Green Internet Shopping?” I listed my top ten favorite green building products that I used on my own home. (The article was written for This Next, a site where people make recommendations.) Number 2 on [...]
Photo courtesy of AMF Safecoat When I was asked by “ThisNext” to list my favorite green products, a lot of products started running through my head. There are a lot of great products out there, but I only wanted to provide ThisNext’s readers with ones that I had personally used. A couple of years [...]
Updated: 4/26/2011 The other day I received an email from Kristopher Dukes asking if I would post my top ten shopping choices on a website, “ThisNext.” What is “ThisNext website,” I wondered? And why did Kristopher want me to post my green favorites on this site? Had someone big discovered me? I felt like a [...]
Photo by Zainub Razvi by permission under the Creative Commons License Attribution 2.0 I was recently surfing the web and found this really interesting website, Fake Plastic Fish, which will make you rethink your use of plastic. Why start a blog about plastics? The author, Beth Terry, wrote in an email to me the following: “I was at home [...]
We are going to play a game called Name that Plant. I am not sure what type of plant this is in the above picture. So, I need some help from my readers. Here is the history behind the mysterious plant. The Story of How the Plant Came to Be I bought mesculum salad mix seeds [...]
Photo of Vintage Fabric by Lebonbonmulticolore, used by permission under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License I recently visited a website that I think Green Talk readers would enjoy. It is called Ruby Lane. On this site are many vintage items including fabric, drapes, clothing, collectibles, jewelry, and purses. In addition there are antiques [...]
Photo by Az~Kate, used by permission under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license Do you ever get up in the morning, and know you need to take care of something? Last night, I was on some people’s blogs and admiring how I was able to get to know them through their posts. It was so easy for them [...]
Photo courtesy of Terra Cabinets (Note: this is part three of a series on Do You Get A Headache When You Walk Into Your Closet?) Terra Cabinets located in New Jersey was started by a brother and sister team combining twenty five years of experience in the cabinetmaking field. They pride themselves on their social [...]
Photo courtesy of California Closets (Note this is Part 2 of a series on “Do You Get A Headache When You Walk Into Your Closet?“) I was recently reading an article in Good Housekeeping about a NYC architect, who remodeled his townhouse using many green materials. What caught my eye is that the family used California Closets [...]
