Green@Home: Saving While Shaving
Name: Aaron Location: New York Profession: AT Editor All of our Green@Home posts have talked about the little things that, over time, can make a big impact. In our small Manhattan apartment, we're...
Posts tagged “personal health”
Sports Furniture Collection by Florian Hauswirth and Thomas Walde
We've had a few posts covering design-conscious exercise equipment (Antonio Citterio's Kinesis Personal and Ionic Column Dumbbells). While these examples were either extravagant or silly, the Sports F...
Debranded Home Bathroom Labels
Maxwell has long been a fan of de-branding your home by reducing the number of branded bottles and containers of necessary cleaning products. Debranded Home is on a similar mission. In addition to H...
The Sex Chairs: The Tantric Sex Chair and The Esse Chair - Email from 4.15.08
Okay, so here's the skinny. A friend of ours told us that she r e a l l y w a n t e d one of these for her and her husband, but they were pricey, so they built one. Then we opened the Times on Sunday...
Toothbrush Holders
The New York Times 4.17.08
Don't ask us how The New York Times came up with a 1600-word story concerning the evolution of the toothbrush holder. (we're still shocked we read the whole thing). With a new Stylish Toothbrush, AT...
Hot or Not? : Aaah! Toilet Paper Foam
Aaah! Toilet Paper Foam - Makes Ordinary Toilet Paper Extraordinary We found this as well at the Home & Housewares show in Chicago (this is not a joke): "What is clean? Clean is how you feel after...
Look! : Eucalyptus In the Bathroom
Here's our Bathroom Month closer: this week Sara Kate went out and bought a few branches of eucalyptus, hung them in the shower, and w o w. Every time you take a shower, the hot steamy air opens up...
AT Survey: Would You Use a Bidet? Is it a Good Green Choice?
As normal as we think America is, we're an odd bunch and do things very differently than the rest of the world. For example, take the bidet. While common in Europe and Asia, the words bidet and toi...
Do You Live Near a Crane?
We heard on NY1 yesterday morning that three cranes in the city have failed inspections since the recent east side crane accident. And it got us thinking about those who live or work near a construc...
Best Bathroom Scales 2008
We've blogged our 5 Best Bathroom Scales for Minimalists, good high tech scales at Unplggd, and awhile back we looked at the Bathroom Scale by Stefano Giovannoni for Alessi. While we like its slim a...
Orange-Mate Citrus Air Fresheners
In lieu of our earlier post today about our newfound appreciation for an air freshener at the office, we wanted to follow it up with a very specific plug. WE HATE FAKE STUFF which is usually toxic, ...
Method Creamy Hand Wash
We love the container Method uses for their Creamy Hand Wash. It's a squat little cube with a tufted texture......
Dyson DC24 All Floors In The Test Lab
Product: Dyson DC24 All Floors Designer: James Dyson Price: $399 Rating: Simply Irresistible* This Dyson is NOT IN STORES YET. We got to pants it right here at AT. And for this Test Lab, we gave...
Brush & Rinse by Amron Experimental
How do you rinse? We slurp water out of our hand. But Amron Experimental thinks No one should have to lap water from their hand. So they've come up with this ingenious toothbrush design called Brush...
Antonio Citterio's Kinesis Personal
Workin' on your Fitness. This isn't something we've talked about before, but that is probably because home exercising equipment is usually something we want to hide (or avoid altogether). We've lear...
AT On: Bottled Water
Indulgence. There is a super-informative and interesting read in the July issue of Fast Company from Charles Fishman: Message in a Bottle. Fishman's piece examines the bottled water industry Maxwell...
Chick-a-Dee Smoke Detector
Rescued in Style. Mooi uit de brand Dutch for "rescued in style" was a recent design competition requesting student designers to make fire safety more attractive. (Apparently few Dutch homes hav...
NYT: Greenwash at Home Depot?
Evolution of Green. The New York Times business section has an excellent article today, At Home Depot, How Green Is That Chainsaw?, examining the power and relevance of Home Depot's Eco Options mark...
NEWS: Bike Boxes
Bike-Friendlier Streets. The quest for greener living and personal health is easier when New York's streets become safer for cyclists. Streetsblog shares the news that some new Bike Boxes are being...
Herman Miller's Be Collection
Personalized (Green) Comfort. Design power-house Herman Miller has recently launched the Be Collection � a group of office-oriented accessories to assist one to Be Comfortable, Be Organized, and B...
Trader Joe's Sea Salt Scrub
Taking full advantage of the fact that Trader Joe's has finally come to NYC, we wanted to point out that it's not just about food. For bathroom month we wanted to feature a super little bathroom add...
Fresh 2 Light Bulbs
A titanium dioxide coating supposedly begins eliminating odor from the air when this bulb has been on for 10 minutes. The Fresh2 is a long-lasting compact fluorescent bulb. If it does indeed eliminate...
ShowerUp Shower Head Water Filters
If you like a nice, big flat shower head that dumps a lot of water on you AND you like filtered water running down your sexy body, this is for you. These ShowerUp shower head filters are some of the ...
Water Filter Comparisons.net
On a water filter kick this morning, we ran across this great site: WaterFilterComparisons.net. They basically advocate the need for water filters and have some compelling information like this: "E....
Best Products: Luxor Pointy Tip Application Bottles
A few years ago we took a look at our shower, with all its bottles, big labels and tricky caps, and we thought, "This is clutter!" It was also a lot of free advertising to be staring at each morning....
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