When I first perused the green product shopping website LivingECHO, my first thought what a great site for one stop shopping. I could click on many different organic and sustainable products from various environmentally minded companies and buy them right from the same site. Think of an open food market place where there are all [...]
home decor
Are you forever asking people to bring a casserole plus a chair or two? Or do you have the proverbial stack of metal or plastic chairs in your basement? Guilty on both accounts. FlexibleLove furniture, a honeycomb, accordion structure-type furniture, is not only eco-friendly, it will save your aching back from lugging those chairs up from the [...]
I found an relatively new lamp in a trash pile one day. As you can see, it is quite attractive except for its glaring silver duct taped cord. Heck, one man’s trash is another’s treasure. In my case, a lamp for a needed reading area. Normally, I would have scooped it up and ran to [...]
Photo by Fernando de Sousa. Usually my Green Speed Links for the week are an eclectic group of green news. For some reason, green building news caught my eye this week. For those of you who are not as enamored with green building as I am, I sprinkled the links with other interesting green news. [...]
Bistro Green ©2008 Joel Puliatti for Vetrazzo, puliattiphoto@yahoo.com. Updated: 12/29/2011: Kitchens reflect our personalities. They are the heart of the house. As much as you want the kitchen to be durable, you yearn for it to create a piazza that stops everyone in their tracks. And the crown jewel? Of course, the countertops. I compare [...]
Kirei Board inlaid in the Urban Woods’ Palisades dining table. I have no idea how I found Urban Woods, a sustainable furniture maker, but was totally taken with their reclaimed wood furniture. I loved the Earthiness and simplicity of the pieces. But the Company does not stop there. They also uses nontoxic, water based stains [...]
Photo by Merete Veian I am constantly searching the internet for vintage, used fabric. My favorite haunts are Ebay and Ruby Lane, an online vintage store. One night, I found Second Chance Fabrics, which sells pre-owned fabrics, patterns, and notions. I was curious who was behind Second Chance Fabrics, since I loved the idea of a [...]
Photo courtesy of Shea Hazarian. I have always been a fan of companies such as Terracycle, which take our trash and create usable products. But when I reflect on what wonderful work they are doing, I have to wonder is this a band-aid until we realize the products we are upcycling are not necessarily good [...]
Almost two years ago I interviewed Ryan Lewis, CEO of Green Crawler, about the Company’s unique online green shopping website. Recently, I received an email from him telling me about the Company’s relaunch of the website and their growth over the last two years. So, what is Green Crawler? “Green Crawler is an innovative online shopping database of green, organic, natural, eco-friendly, [...]
See Update Below: 12/11/2011: My life is pretty simple and relatively boring. That was all about to change when I met a vintage chandelier that needed some TLC. It lead me down a road that most would not have taken. Ominous? Kind of. Friday the 13th? Not so scary. It involved stripping (and not the [...]
