From the Vineyard to the Floor
So apparently there are a lot of leftover cork stoppers from the wine industry. Some opportunist out there discovered this and thought it might be a good a idea to do something clever with them… like turn them into a floor! Produced as cork mosaic tiles, these innovative recycled floors are becoming increasingly available at...
Lulu’s Tree House Hideaway
Linda ‘Lulu’ Aldredge keeps herself quite busy by running Lulu Organics, an environmentally aware beauty company and Lulu is Who?, a portfolio of her design and illustration projects. Aldredge’s work is hubbed in the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, NYC… her escape is upstate, in a hand built tree house retreat. Check out...
Almost Like Sleeping in a Tree
Looking to add some savvy style to your bedroom while being eco-friendly? Consider the Larch collection from Unison, a nature inspired print designed by Robert Segal and Alicia Rosauer, starting from $72. Let’s take a peak. The bedding is made from 100 percent organic cotton, a great material to support considering traditional cotton accounts for...
Dinner Table Topography
This might be the coolest things since the cat first meowed… It’s an Earth Bowl, from Austrian firm Fluid Forms. Pick a location of your choice, (perhaps that favorite camping spot in the mountains) and plug its coordinates into Fluid Form’s website. You will then see a satellite image from Google Maps and if you’re...
Bongiorno Viesso!
Many metro hippies out there may recognize that one of the hardest things to shop for is ‘green’ furniture… Ikea might come to mind as a company making a decent eco-effort, but their bottom line isn’t THAT green, is it?…mmm, probably not. So what are we as mid to dark green individuals supposed to do...
Freshy Fresh with Freshaire Choice Paints
One of the easiest things we can do to bring green strategies into our home is to spec out non-toxic, zero-VOC paints. VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) are harsh chemicals that give paint that ‘paint’ smell and contribute to poor indoor air quality. There have been a number of low-VOC products available from Sherwin Williams, Benjamin...
REGREEN: Rockin’ Green Remodeling Guidelines
The U.S. Green Building Council and the American Society of Interior Designers have created an all-star alliance by producing REGREEN, a sustainable-based remodeling guideline. Different than the USGBC’s LEED certification, the REGREEN program focuses only on residential remodels, offering a thorough review of sustainable strategies through case study examples… Looking to make your own home...
My, That’s Some Fuzzy Art!
I’m not gonna lie… I was pretty darn excited when I came across Grassland, a company from Deutschland that has created art installations out of… you guessed it, grass! Bernd Oette, a Cologne based designer, hosts the innovative mind behind grassland. He has developed a series of various sizes and shapes to work from. The...
This Remodel’s Gone Platinum!
Live Green, Live Smart is a Minneapolis based company pushin’ green to the extreme… They keep their hands quite full by juggling the promotion of green building on a national level, offering educational services, and creating epic case study eco-remodels, like their Sustainable House, which happens to be the planet’s first ever LEED Platinum remodel! ...
weeHouse Will Someday Be meHouse
Minnesota month trudges on with another incredible Twin Cities based design firm, Alchemy Architects. Alchemy produces some bomb.com custom homes, but is most recognized as the masterminds behind the oh-so-cute weeHouse… you know, the 341 sq ft gem of a structure. Here’s its famous photo: The weeHouse has been the go-to example for living...
Who Put That Bucky Ball in a Tree?!?
… Dustin Feider did, that’s who! A homeboy of mine, Dustin started 02sustainability, a company that builds geodesic domes in trees! With a degree in furniture design and a passion for creative problem solving, Feider built his first Buckminster Fuller inspired geo-dome to explore the concept of habitat. The Minneapolis based company is firmly committed...
A Seat for the Modern Lollygagger
Do you like to sit? Are you a lollygagger? If you answered yes to both of these questions, you are in luck my friend. Loll Designs has come up with a solution for all those standing lollygaggers out there… a line of modern adirondack chairs that are 100% recycled and very affordable. Loll creates all...
