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Green Paint
The New York Times 5.15.08

There has been a huge shift in the market for paint in recent years — as consumers demand more environmentally friendly paint, the paint companies are working hard to satisfy these concerns but st...

BKLYN Designs: Bamba Chair from EcoSystems

This is the Bamba Chair. Its design follows the consideration to be as sustainable and environmentally-friendly as possible. The flat-pack design features a seat and back that are cut from the side...

BKLYN Designs: Brave Space Design

Brave Space Design has been flyin gunder-the-radar here on AT. We've featured their Hollow series of furniture and their Tetris-y Tetrad Shelving was included in our list of Top 10 Modular Shelving...

BKLYN Designs: Kupe Line Repurposed Bourbon Barrels from Uhuru

Red Hook based Uhuru was showing off their new Kupe collection of furniture at BKLYN Designs this weekend. Crafted from used bourbon barrels from Kentucky, the Kupe collection includes various benc...

Biodegradable Furnishings
The New York Times 5.8.08

As more and more products with labels like "green" and "sustainable" enter the marketplace, companies look for new ways to stand out. And the latest development? Furnishings labeled "biodegradable."...

Timber Block Stool from VivaTerra

We've always admired Brent Comber's Adler Cube Table (above, right). Made from Cedar, Douglas fir and maple branches that would have been treated as waste, the cubes are a one-of-a-kind table that i...

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...

A Greener Mattress: Simmons Natural Care by Danny Seo

By using a combination of natural latex, Tencel, soy-based foam, recycled steel and wood from accredited and sustainably managed forests, Danny Seo has helped create a greener, affordable mattress f...

Eco, Sexy & Ventless: The Bosch Axxis Washer Dryer Series
Email from 4.28.08

So, we were at our friend's apartment up in Harlem (they just moved in last summer) and they were proudly showing us around - showing us all the new things that made us downtown folks jealous, like ...

What Do You Do With Wire Hangers?

After reading that wire hangers have recently shot up in price, we're curious if our dry cleaner will start to re-use hangers. We've tried collecting them and returning them for re-use, but the dry ...

Julia Lohmann Designs With Kelp

During the Milan fair, designer Julia Lohmann has been experimenting with kelp. Instead of showing finished products, she has been using both an Irish kelp and a Japanese kelp to share the process o...

Household Carbon Footprint
The New York Times 4.20.08

The latest Sunday magazine from The New York Times was the annual Green Issue. From greener burials to the auto-racing industry promoting greener fuel options, the magazine includes a wealth of ideas ...

Saving Grace: Droog Lamps Designed for CFLs

One of the peeks we're getting from the Milan furniture fair is of Dutch design collective Droog's exhibition: A Touch of Green. It's a collection of designs that explore the various issues surround...

Bamboo Floors
The New York Times 4.17.08

Here on AT, we've asked Is Bamboo Really as Eco as We Think? and looked at IKEA Bamboo Flooring, but there are still lots of questions and confusion due to the many various qualities and prices in the...

Recycled Rubber Tire Tubs at Design Within Reach

Our previous posts on recycled tire tubs and pots and baskets and buckets were extremely popular with our readers. Among the new items available from Design Within Reach are two sizes of recycled ti...

Recycled Kitchens from Green Demolitions
The New York Times 4.10.08

Amidst all the luxury kitchen remodels and fanfare for new products, Steve Feldman started the not-for-profit Green Demolitions to make the process of donating a kitchen simple and financially appeali...

Cheap & Green Kitchen Renovation
The New York Times 4.10.08

No stranger to extravagant taste, The New York Times helps keep it real this week with a story on the low-budget kitchen renovation of Brooklyn Heights resident Katherine Belsey Davis. Spending just...

Biodegradable Planter by Francois Clerc

This expanding planter, Graine de Pot, is the design of Francois Clerc. The design responds to the needs of urban gardeners with limited space for storing pots in the off-season and is made from a bio...

DC House Tour: Helen Makes it Easy Being Green!

This is from DC finalist, Rachel. Comment away! Name: Helen Occupation: Economist Location: Washington, DC Type: 2 bedroom in a Beaux-Arts building circa 1900 Size: 800 sq/ft Years lived in: Owned ...

Natural Cleaning with Zamuta Soapnuts

Why haven't we heard of these before? Introduced to the U.S. market in 2004, Zamuta Soapnuts are nuts from India's Rithra tree. The nuts contain a natural detergent (saponin) and can be used in laundr...

AT Boston: Before and After, Mantle Cure from the Stone Doctor

This is from our Boston finalist, Melissa. Comment away! >> Enter Stone Doctors Slideshow We have found the end-all-be-all store for antique architectural remnants. We're in the process of renovat...

AT DC: Community Forklift - Salvage and Donations

This is from DC finalist, Caroline. Comment away! >> Enter Slideshow Just across the DC line, right off route 1 is a great warehouse of salvaged and donated materials. Community Forklift is a perf...

Solar Harvest: A Green Showhouse
The New York Times 3.26.08

Yesterday's Business section of The New York Times looked at Boulder, Colorado resident Eric Doub who is the owner of Ecofutures Building. The company specializes in design-build projects that imple...

Look! New Method Bathroom Cleaners

Method is moving beyond air-fresheners and soaps with their newest products, Le Scrub and Lil' Bowl Blu. These are deep cleaners for the bathroom, but they still stay true to Method's goals of being n...

AT Email: Dosa Leather Poufs, The Perfect Small Seat - 3.25.08

March 25, 2008 Christina Kim, the founder of DOSA, lives in a small Richart Neutra building in Los Angeles's Silverlake neighborhood. Known for her clothing and accessories that sell at ...

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