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3R Living
Eco-friendly and Fair Trade products abound at this Brooklyn, NY-based shop. Visit the brick-and-mortar sites in Brooklyn or Maplewood, NJ if you’re in the area. If not, you can buy all of their wares on-line. |
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94.7 The Globe
How do I love the earth? Let me count the ways…by listening to 97.7 The Globe. Part of CBS radio, this Washington, DC-based station is available on the net to listeners around the world. Its signal is powered by renewable energy and there are plans to replace all station vehicles with hybrids. Besides a rockin’ and diverse playlist, they pledge to keep listeners up to date on ways to live an eco-friendly lifestyle. That rocks. |
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AirDye
AirDye is technology used to create products for the design industry. Rather than using copious amounts of water and energy, this proprietary process created by parent company Colorep, Inc. uses air to dye textiles. Plus, it applies color to thousands of filaments within each piece of yarn, which produces deep, vibrant hues. Look, Ma – no water! |
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Alt Hotels
Here's a seriously cool new concept in eco-friendly, stylish travel - a hotel designed with pre-fab rooms that uses geothermal technology (the first industry in Canada to do so) along with other eco-conscious design attributes. The goal? A groovy, affordable, chic hotel with minimal impact on the planet. Next time you're in Montreal, check out this first of many in the new chain. |
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American Clay
Who knew that the stuff we used to squish through our fingers as kids could be a product we could specify for our clients to safeguard their health? American Clay creates flooring that repels allergens and does not off-gas illness-producing chemicals such as formaldehyde and benzene, thus improving indoor air quality. And it’s attractive, to boot. |
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Angry Green Girl
This site brings new meaning to the term “eco-friendly.” Trading on the basic marketing premise of “sex sells,” Angry Green Girl makes energy efficiency and earth-saving tips that much more attractive to male population through messages delivered in tank tops, short shorts and bikinis. But, hey – if a little skin can inspire even the most green-resistant to recycle, compost and xeroscape, is it really all that bad? |
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Bambu
Love this chic, handmade bamboo homeware. Quite beautiful and “green” to boot since bamboo is a quickly renewable resource. |
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BedBusters
San Franciscans now have a way to keep their old mattresses out of landfills. Call BedBusters to arrange for pickup. For a fee, they’ll not only remove your mattress, but is sliced apart and separated into wood, steel, cotton and foam for journeys back into the manufacturing world. Call it the circle of life. |
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BigGreen
You’re building “green” but on a big scale. Here’s the resource for designers & builders of larger construction projects. Join the online forum to discuss aspects of sustainable design on those large-scale buildings. |
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BioClean Maid
Dallas-Fort Worth area Texans rejoice. There’s a new cleaning service in town – and they’re eco-friendly! They use biodegradable products and offer a range of cleaning services. Don’t want a maid or already have a great one? Let BioClean come in for a 2-hour session to instruct you on how to go eco-friendly on your own. |
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Bottle Cycler
Next time you’re at your fave restaurant or bar ask the manager what they do with all those empty glass bottles. Then tell her how much faster, safer and quieter the Aussie Bottlecycler is for her staff. Just drop the bottles into the top, let the machine quietly crush them into tiny pieces, then wheel the enclosed bin out. No more cuts or carrying heavy, unsafe bins back and forth. Who knows, maybe you’ll get a little treat “on the house” for your wisdom! |
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BoxCycle
Why is it that when you need moving boxes, you can’t ever find any free or inexpensive ones, but when you are finished moving and ready to get them the heck out of your garage so that you can actually park your car, you can’t find anyone onto which to unload them? In the spirit of recycling and efficiency, let BoxCycle be your middleman. This online service connects buyers with sellers, whether they are individuals, organizations or retailers. Handling all of the annoying details, BoxCycle allows you to list your boxes to sell or to search for boxes to buy, all in your local area. Of course, as the site grows and more people list, the service will be more effective. So go forth and participate! |
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Building Energy Performance News™ (BEPN)
Building Energy Performance Information was formed by real estate professionals to fill a market information void by focusing on energy performance and management as it impacts U.S. commercial property. Their goal is to keep commercial real estate professionals and those servicing the commercial real estate industry informed on energy-related issues impacting property and provide a platform to share experiences and learn from each other. |
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Building Green
All there is to know about building green. Okay, maybe not all, but pretty darn close: The Top 10 Green Building Products; a spec book you can buy featuring green product manufacturers; highlights from Environmental Building News; case studies and LEED Credit info. Many parts of the site require paid registration (currently $12.95/one week) to read complete articles, but if building green is your thing, then it’s probably worth it. |
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Buy My Broken iPod
You can’t sell it on eBay if the screen is cracked or the wheel is broken. Keep the toxic heavy metals out of the landfills and make a few bucks by sending it to these folks. Think of it as being an organ donor for broken iPods around the world. |
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California Fitness
Introducing a new benefit for your next cycle or treadmill workout – keeping the lights on. The Hong Kong location of California Fitness (part of 24-Hour Fitness) is capturing the energy its clients create to power lighting. Okay, so it may not power the entire gym, but it is a pretty cool idea. And every little bit helps, right? |
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Clean Technology Business Review
Clean Technology Business Review (CTBR) is a comprehensive resource for businesses focusing on developing environmentally sustainable energy, which use renewable and alternative sources to produce power. Think industry blurbs, more in-depth articles, and links to blogs discussing the use of nuclear, hydro, wind technologies to generate energy. It’s the future, baby. |
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CREE LED Lighting Solutions
Our good friend and P&C contributor Sheree Schold brought this manufacturer to our attention the other day. With good reason she was extremely excited about their residential retrofit 6-inch diameter can LED light, which delivers a lighting trifecta: beautiful color rendering, no heat build up, and lower utility bills. Oh, and they have commercial lighting solutions too. |
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DB Furniture
Ingenious! Furniture designer David Brunicardi creates gorgeous, hand-crafted modern furniture pieces from 200-year old trees blown down in a storm, hickory wood from a fallen barn and Sande-a sustainable, eco-friendly, hardwood from Ecuador. And don’t miss his Bio page – one of the best we’ve read yet! |
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Debby Arem Designs
The news tells horror stories that computers can’t be recycled, or at least most parts of them. Jewelry designer Debby Arem is putting her skills to use to change that. From recycled circuit boards and found objects spring mini-collages/works of art. Not just jewelry either – she’s also framed a large mirror with pieces, as well as making light switch plates. |
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DrivingGreen
Having a party? Make it greenhouse gas neutral! Offset those environmentally unfriendly greenhouse gases that your guests may incur while travelling to your shindig. Calculate the gases amount and get the amount that it costs to offset them right here. |
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E/The Environmental Magazine
It is possible that the sustainable design tidbits that you have absorbed at interior design conferences, through presentations by your manufacturers’ sales reps, and via the pages of various shelter magazines are slowly igniting a fiery passion for eco-mindedness within you. The growing focus on energy-efficiency and the ramping up of emerging technologies affecting both products and processes makes a focus in this field ripe for the picking. If the thought of becoming more green literate and educating A&D colleagues, vendors, contractors, builders, trades people, governmental leaders, and the public gives you the fever, then take some E for it. |
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Earth 911
This Public and Private Sector Partnership aims to arm everyone with info and opportunities to live more eco-responsibly. Earth 911 is a unique site to find community-specific resources as well as info on sustainable prevention programs. |
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EarthFriendlyMoving
The age-old question: what do you do with all those empty cardboard boxes you use up each time you move? And we know students can end up moving a LOT. We did. Thankfully Spencer Brown has come up with a cost-friendly earth-friendly alternative – 5 different sizes of sturdy, recycled plastic boxes that you RENT (not buy – like those cardboard boxes you’re going to end up throwing out anyway) for a buck a week. Currently available only in Orange County and Long Beach, California, they’re expanding as fast as they can. Help them out by using their service and spreading the word. |
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Earthpaint
Earthpaint offers more than low-VOC paint. They have a full line of products that includes wood finishes, concrete sealers & earth plasters. This company believes in more than making a profit off the green trend. Read their About Us page to find out more. And don’t miss the How To’s under the Resources section. You can learn how to finish concrete floors, among other things! |
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Eco-mmunity
From quizzes to blogs to discussions, join the Eco-mmunity at the Sundance Channel. Sign up for the GreenZine newsletter while you’re there. |
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Ecoist
Buy a bag, plant a tree! That’s right, for every purchase of an Earth-friendly handbag made from woven candy wrappers (misprinted or rejected, not used ones, thank goodness), you can satisfy your sweet-tooth and your do-good dreams. |
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Ecolect
Looking for green materials? Ecolect gathers them all in one handy pile. Their vision is for everyone involved in the built environment to design responsibly, and they are providing the resources to make that goal less daunting and more attainable. From products and case studies to articles and a blog, it’s certainly a sustainable design collective. |
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ECOtality
A company committed to developing and commercializing environmentally friendly energy systems. Visit the site to find out about these systems or to invest in Ecotality so that they can continue with their mission. |
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EcoTone
Wanna be a “green” designer? Better do some research at this online bookstore – all green info. All in one place. |
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EcoVisual Communications
Founded in March 2009, this self-proclaimed first virtually 100% green graphics company in the USA is dedicated to sustainable practices such as producing no VOCs, sourcing materials locally, using recyclable materials and producing recyclable product. Their images are printed on sustainable, tree-free media made of chlorine-free 100% pure cotton. Oh, and did we mention that the prints that they produce are museum quality and up to archival standards? Because it’s hard to sell clients on sustainable product that doesn’t measure up. |
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Ekologic
Be super stylish and eco-friendly all at once with the groovy recycled and restyled fashions found here. They offer cashmere clothing and accessories artfully designed and handcrafted from carefully selected, recycled clothing that allows you to feel good inside about wearing something that feels so good on the outside! |
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FISH LIPS paper designs
Hip wrapping paper printed in the USA with soy inks on recycled paper and shipped using recyclable materials. How eco-friendly is that? She’ll even design custom giftwrap for companies with a minimum order. Check out the owner, former interior designer Kimi Rutkin, profiled in PLiNTH&CHiNTZ February 2008. |
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Fred Butler
Folks in Holland, Germany, Denmark & Sweden now have access to an ecologically safe alternative to traditional harsh chemical-based drycleaning. A patented process using carbon dioxide, a naturally-occurring gas in the atmosphere. Next time you dryclean, be good to your clothes and the atmosphere. |
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FreeGreen
Wanna build your “green” home but think it’s going to cost you an arm and a leg? Relax and get FreeGreen, man. This site offers up a variety of free sustainable house plans that you can use and adapt with your builder. It also guides you through energy efficient products from leading manufacturers, providing ratings and/or research reports. The FreeGreen team even asks for visitors’ feedback regarding new design features and products. Let freedom ring. |
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Furnicology
This resource features designer reviews of the newest and hottest eco furnishings for designers. As stated in their Mission, goals of Furnicoogy include providing an “outlet for accurate, transparent information on products and their manufacturers,” as well as increasing “awareness and understanding of responsible design by providing educational information.” In other words: Just so NO to greenwashing. |
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Green Channel on The News Market
Are you a journalist searching for news video content on Green issues? Or a company with information to get out there? The News Market is the resource for content providers & journalists sharing video news segments in 20 different areas. Go to the Green “channel” to access articles that are eco-conscious. |
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Green Clips
Who of us can keep up with all the articles on sustainable building and design issues and the related business & government news articles? Not me. Subscribe to GreenClips and receive a summary of those articles by email every 2 weeks. |
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Green Dog
The new puppies, Hoover & Dyson, are adorable. But eventually they have to go to puppy school or doggy daycare. Why not go to a completely earth-friendly place? After all, the little darlings’, um, output is all-natural, so why can’t their toys and food be, too? We’re hoping this idea spreads from Chicago to Dallas. And soon. H&D need to learn some manners! |
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Green Festival
Green Festival, the United States’ premier sustainability event, is a joint project of Global Exchange and Co-op America. Along with business and community leaders, individuals come together to discuss critical issues that make an impact at home and abroad. Organizations and businesses showcase programs and products that restore the planet and all that inhabit it. Neighbor-to-neighbor connections are formed, and skills are shared to empower people to create positive change in the world. |
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Green Fortune
Instead of wanting to climb the walls of your dreary office, wouldn’t it be nicer to be able to look at a living, breathing, growing wall instead? This Stockholm-based firm specializes in designing and installing interior plant walls in a variety of locations, including retail and municipal venues. The verdant result is beautiful and the process fascinating – in fact, you can even watch a video on the site that shows how a plant wall is assembled. |
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Green Groove
Every little step you take is magic when it comes to building a more sustainable future for Earth. So many of us want to live greener, but we’re confused on where to start. Green Groove will help you and your family start simply, slowly easing you into better, healthier habits. |
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Green Home Guide
Backed by the venerable U.S. Green Building Council [USGBC], Green Home Guide provides the public access to experts in the field of sustainable and energy efficient home design. It’s a tool for education and awareness, as well as a resource guide for finding professionals and consultants to help consumers lower their water, energy and material usage. |
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Green Ideas, Inc.
This gang of energy experts from the fields of construction, engineering, architecture and academia has formed a consulting firm that helps projects to start green and stay green. Dedicated to sustainable building practices, they formulate strategies to make high-performance projects energy efficient, thereby reducing life-cycle costs and lowering buildings’ environmental impact. |
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Green Life
A compilation blog for green enthusiasts. A wide variety of articles related to topics regarding sustainable everyday living (gardening, energy, beauty, etc.) and associated products (electronics, cleaning supplies, pet supplies, etc.). |
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Green Living
We admit it – we’re pimping out friends of friends. (Our friend Kim Young brought this to our attention.) The owners, Michael & Kate, really get to know everything about their products, manufacturers, etc. Their storefront is in Dallas, Texas, but you can order online now – cool door hardware, organic baby onesies, you get the idea. |
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Green Lodging News
For those of you focusing on Hospitality & Lodging, here’s a resource dedicated to lodging that focuses on environment-related issues that impact profitability. Convince a client that green choices can still be profitable with concrete info from this weekly newsletter. |
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Green Restaurant Association
Whether you’re looking for a restaurant that uses a recycling system and is polystyrene foam-free or you’re looking for a specialist to consult to make that restaurant design you’re working on more green, you’ve got the resources here. |
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Green Thing
You want to be green, really. It’s just hard to remember what little things you can do to make a difference. Enter Green Thing – an online community that gives member a new task to combat climate change like “walk” or “turn your lights off early.” You can log in and tell other community members how many times you’ve “done it” and how – if you like. Or just do it. At the end of the month, Green Thing announces the total reduction in CO2 realized by the entire community. |
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Green with Glamour
Forget Birkenstock sandles and hemp t-shirts. Green with Glamour shows you how to be eco-conscious AND glam at the same time. Founders Kathleen Rowan and Deana Bracken prove that the planet’s well-being and high style CAN go hand-in-hand. (If only that held true for high heels and comfort.) Don’t believe us? Check out the Recycled Aluminum Louis the Umpteenth side table or the totally hot, platform sandals from Charmone that use non-leather materials and water-based glue. The products may not be cheap, but it’s refreshing to see that stylish, eco-responsible products are out there. |
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GreenBiz
GreenBiz.com is your go-to news aggregating site for all things green and biz. There’s even a free weekly e-newsletter you can sign up for to keep you up to date. |
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GreenDimes
Sick of junk mail cluttering up your mailbox, not to mention the planet? Then sign up with GreenDimes, a service that cuts through this unwanted clutter. Bonus: In return for signing up as a Premium member, they will plant five trees on your behalf. Grow, baby, grow. |
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Greener Grass Design
Shop here for a carefully curated, aesthetically pleasing assortment of gifts, wearables, home décor, gadgets, et al. The Houston-twosome who started this on-line shop use their fine art background and a desire to bring beautifully designed objects to the public to select a chic assortment of objects, many of which are nature-inspired, some of which are limited editions. |
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GreenerPenny
Get your daily tips on “what’s good, easy and green” at GreenerPenny.com. With everything from the Top 10 Green Gifts for Mom to a Word of the Week column, they truly do offer good advice to make it easy to be green. |
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greenpots
Twins Mica and Café McMullen possess both a love of cooking and a love of the environment, and they’ve combined their two passions to offer a line of eco-friendly cookware. So what makes their products “green”? According to their website, their materials not only create a very energy efficient means of cooking, but they also do not release toxic chemicals when used. Oh, did we mention that the cookware is also attractive and competitively priced? Those two things always help. |
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GreenZone
Searching for eco-friendly solutions and products? Let Penny Bonda be your guide. She edits this newsletter/subsite of Interior Design magazine, focusing on the practical Green issues every designer is facing. |
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Health House
This resource put together by the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest offers both consumers and builders news, quick tips and in-depth information on how best to ensure a healthy, durable, and energy efficient home. The maintenance guide provides monthly, seasonal, and annual tips to help identify home pollutants, achieve better indoor air quality, and find out how to reduce your footprint on the planet in such a way that only adds to your quality of life. |
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Ideal Bite
This site’s name and its “a sassier shade of green” tagline package its mission up quite nicely. Their tasty morsels of information and palatable tips on how to live a life that is a bit kinder to the planet are guaranteed not to cause bloating and indigestion. And at this very moment, they are allowing readers to vote on the Next In Green winner as part of their Best In Green Awards. We mention this because P&C profilee / interior designer Kimi Rutkin of FISH LIPS paper designs is on the ballot for her sustainable papers. Good luck Kimi – we’re pulling for you! |
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inmodern
Planet-friendly home furnishings available here. Incredibly easy to assemble and sleekly designed furniture needs no tools to put together. All designs are made of 100% FSC Certified Smart Wood (formaldehyde -free). Did we mention the 100% stylish designs? |
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iRecycle Earth911 iPhone App
There is indeed just about an app for everything these days, and recycling is no different. iRecycle is a free downloadable application for your iPhone that provides over 100,000 locations all across the United States to recycle and/or dispose of everything from packaging to electronics. Up-to-date information comes from a variety of sources – organizations, activists, governmental departments and regular consumers -- for the most comprehensive list of drop-off points. |
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Kirei
Starting with its name – which is the Japanese character indicating “beautiful” or “clean” – this eco-friendly manufacturer walks the walk when it comes to dedicating itself to all things elegant and sustainable. From their Kirei Board, which is made from reclaimed sorghum straw and will substitute for wood in furniture and millwork applications, to their Kirei Coco Tiles, which combine low-VOC resins and reclaimed coconut shells for both decorative floor and wall applications, the company offers healthy, attractive, green alternatives to designers through area dealers. |
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Klean Kanteen
You’re peripatetic and you’re thirsty, but you hesitate using plastic bottles to tote your potables because of environmental reasons. What are you to do? Get yourself a colorful Klean Kanteen, the lightweight, reusable, durable, sanitary stainless steel alternative that keeps your water sparkling and stink-free. |
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Lamp Recycle
Lamprecycle.org was developed by the lamp section of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association to provide a one-stop source of information about spent fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamp recycling. All fluorescent and most high intensity discharge lamps contain mercury, a naturally occurring element that is pervasive in the environment. It is important that lamps and other products containing mercury be properly managed to protect public health and the environment, and Lamp Recycle helps you do just that. |
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level – The BIFMA Sustainability Standard
Taking into account a company’s social actions, energy usage, material selection and human and ecosystem health impacts, this multi-attribute, sustainability standard and third-party certification program for the furniture industry addresses how a product is sustainable from multiple perspectives. It has been created to deliver the most open and transparent means of evaluating and communicating the environmental and social impacts of furniture products in the built environment. |
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Linda Loudermilk
Serious about being green? Then wear it! Not the color. The fashions made from materials like bamboo and soybean. Linda Loudermilk’s luxury eco™ line is stylish, sexy and earth-friendly. Who ever thought you’d see those three adjectives describing the same clothing? Loudermilk is serious about her eco-initiative. She founded The Loudermilk Institute for Sustainability in 2006. Take that, Juicy! |
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Linea Carta
Handmade, one-of-a-kind, eco-friendly luxury stationery, pillows, napkins, tea towels and baby clothes made in California. The company is headed up by artist and designer Diva Pyari, whose roots are in the fashion industry. |
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Live Earth
Anyone remember the ginormous worldwide LiveAid concert to help stamp out famine in Ethiopia back in 1985? Same idea – but now bringing awareness to the Earth’s climate crisis. If you missed the LiveEarth concert you can watch videos of it right here while you’re donating to the fund or calculating your carbon footprint. |
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Living Green
Exotic interiorscapes are the specialty of this San Francisco-based company. Plants and artifacts from all seven continents are available as well as design consultation. |
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Material Short Stories
Innovations in materials that can be used to manufacture eco-friendly products are far-reaching and fast-paced, so it’s incredibly difficult to keep up with what’s going on out there: where it’s happening, who’s doing it and how to get your hands on it. Enter Material Short Stories, a service for designers and manufacturers that highlights new materials, inspiring you to create the next best thing or generate your own brilliant ideas. |
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Milk Paint
The next time you’re on the hunt for a paint that’s safe for pregnant women or use in a hospital go straight to MilkPaint.com. This product is a non-fading, environmentally safe paint that is free of VOCs, petroleum by-products and that typical paint smell. Granted, there are only 20 colors to choose from, but they come in powder form and can easily be mixed to create a cornucopia of colors. Best of all, they won’t harm a toddler even when he does gnaw on the corner of his milk-paint painted crib. |
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Mod Green Pod
Yes, wallpaper is back. But it’s not your mother’s flocked, mirrored or heavy-duty vinyl. Now you can get wallpapers that are individual works of art hand-screened in the USA. And it’s vinyl-free with no harmful chemicals. Turn your clients on to this. They’ll think it’s gorgeous even if they don’t know it’s “green”! |
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Mother Nature Network
You have, of course, heard of the cable news giant CNN, but have you heard of MNN? Time magazine dubbed this resource the “green CNN” for its wide array of eco-oriented topics – such as breaking news stories, original programming, videos, blogs, articles and DIY guides – that are geared toward the Average Joe. |
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MotoArt
These former architectural sign makers – whose work appeared in Disney and Universal Studios theme parks – now comb the country rescuing vintage and commercial aircraft parts. They pay homage to the proud history of aviation by transforming propellers into one-of-a-kind sculpture and furniture pieces. It’s the ultimate dude, but it’s far from crude. |
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NatureMill
For those urban dwellers without generous outdoor spaces in which to play Mother Nature’s housekeeper, the nice folks at NatureMill have created an indoor composter that integrates nicely into your square-footage-challenged kitchen. You’ll feel ever so earthy because not only will you be creating fertilizer for your windowsill herb garden from garbage that would have otherwise found its way into a landfill, but you’ll only be using a tiny bit of energy to do so. On top of all that, it doesn’t stink – a fact that just might prevent your neighbors from reporting you to the local authorities for harboring livestock or burying bodies beneath your floorboards. |
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Never-Ending Stories
Sponsored by Zeftron nylon (nylon 6 commercial carpet yarn systems), this site allows designers to collaborate on environmental issues by being able to share project photos, success stories and freely discuss environmental challenges and solutions. Share your green “story” or just find inspiration by reading stories by others. Who knows? Maybe your story will win an award. |
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Open Green Map
If you are serious about “living green” at home and while traveling, and you are forever encouraging others to do the same, then in this site, you will delight. Users can not only access, but also create and continually contribute to, a growing list of maps around the world that locate businesses and services such as fair-trade coffee shops, ethical merchants, recycling centers, and green spaces. Map it. Live it. |
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OptOutPrescreen
Tired of companies “pre-approving” you for credit cards and insurance you don’t even want? Get off those lists at OptOutPrescreen. It’s the official Consumer Credit Reporting Industry website to Opt-In or Opt-Out of those offer types. Save a tree. Save some wear and tear on your paper shredder. |
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Organic Gardening
If you’ve got a “green” green thumb – or at least want to know how to get one – then this resource is for you. Learn how to prep your soil, compost with the best of them, fight back against those pesky pests, and grow your own goods – all without harming you, your family, your guests, and your planet. |
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PlayBack Clothing
The team at PlayBack is paying it forward by offering reasonable prices for hip t-shirts and sweatshirts “made from collecting post-industrial cotton scraps and plastic and glass bottles and sorting them by color. They are then broken down into fiber form and paired with other fibers (recycled cotton or polyester, depending on what we started with) to add softness and durability. The fibers are then re-spun into yarn and knitted into” super-comfy clothes. Back to basics. |
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Plenty Magazine
Sign up for your weekly dose of Green with Plenty’s e-newsletter. Subscribe to the actual magazine for bi-monthly issues in your mailbox or go to the site for a daily fix of worldwide environmental news, links to green sites and video clips from PlentyTV. |
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Raw Bags
Many fashion designers are exploring the profitable nature of natural products, and Beth Warner is one of them. Her clutches, totes and wallets are made of basic bamboo, raw rattan and left-alone leather. So if you’ve got a handbag fetish, you’ll only feel guilty about the money you’re “recyclying,” not the materials you’re buying. |
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Recycle Please
You get a mailbox full of catalogs, credit card offers and junkmail every day – but how do you know which offending pieces can be recycled? Can magazines? What about catalogs? Window envelopes? The Direct Marketing Association hopes to clear the confusion by pushing businesses to prominently place a “Recycle Please” logo on those recyclable items they send out. Hurrah! No more guessing. Just more recycling. |
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RecycleBank
When all else fails, use bribery! Or as the Philadelphia-based RecycleBank calls it “IBR – Incentive-Based Recycling.” Potato, potahto. The point is to get people to recycle. If you live in the Philadelphia area, get a special bar-coded recycle bin and the amount you recycle is tracked and translated into RecycleBank Dollars that you can use to shop at over 100 participating merchants. |
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ReGreen
The American Society of Interior Designers’ Foundation and the U.S. Green Building Council have partnered on the development of best practice guidelines and targeted educational resources for sustainable residential improvement projects. This program increases the understanding of sustainable renovation project practices and benefits among homeowners, residents, design professionals, product suppliers and service providers to build both demand and industry capacity. |
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Rehabilitated Dishware by Sarah Cihat
If you’re tired of eating off the same old plain-Jane dishware, it’s time you met Sarah Cihat. While at Parsons School of Design in New York City, she originated the idea of Rehabilitated Dishware as part of her senior thesis project. She scours thrift stores, grandma’s attic, and discount bins to find perfectly usable, if not quite beautiful, plates and platters, then reglazes and refires them with her unique twist – say a skull & crossbones, or an astronaut silhouette laid over the original piece. Design past and present come together to repurpose unwanted things into new (to you!) products. |
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Restoration & Remediation
Designers and architects create functional, aesthetically pleasing environments, but those environments must be meticulously managed and maintained. Structures and systems are in a constant state of entropy due to normal wear-n-tear, and accidents and natural disasters only add to the mix, creating problems like water and smoke damage. Furthermore, mistakes are made and steps are skipped (we won’t name any names here) during construction and inspections, ultimately leading to problems such as excessive moisture, resulting in mold growth and indoor air quality issues. If the demand of detailed attention of facilities management fascinates you, then read Restoration & Remediation. |
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Safecoat
Back in the late 1970s, before “Green” was a buzzword, AMI paint & building products delved into the research and manufacture of chemically-responsible, non-polluting products. |
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Smencils
Welcome to Smencil World – Home of the Smelly Pencil! Instead of scratch’n’sniff, they’re write’n’sniff – AND made from recycled newspapers. So try a Cinnamon-scented Smencil while writing your grocery list or an Orange-scented one when you need a little citrusy pick-me-up. They’re guaranteed to hold their smell for up to 2 years! |
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Solar Roast Coffee
Solar Roast offers not only great-tasting coffee, but energy-efficient processes. No fossil fuels, no electricity, only solar power is used to roast their organic beans. |
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SOLIO
We are now a society of gadgets: cell phones, PDAs, iPods, portable game players, digital cameras… (Who knows what’s next!) And there is not one of us gadget-junkies who has not experienced the frustration of having our juice run out just when we needed to make an important call, access a vital document, or just keep the person sitting next to us on the airplane from babbling on. Enter the Solio solar-powered charger. Get one of these babies and you no longer have to pack that spaghetti bowl of cords when head out for the day or for the week. |
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Stardust Glass
We can all use a little stardust in our lives, and Portland, Oregon- based artists Megan and Jason Coleman are more than happy to oblige. Using second-hand glass to create handmade, 87%-100% recycled content tiles in a variety of shapes and colors, they’ll add a bit of eco-friendly magic to any interior. |
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Sustainable Industries
Calling themselves “The Independent Source for Green Business Leaders”, Sustainable Industries offers up reviews, columns, and information on green building, clean energy, technology and more. |
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Sustainable Life Media
If you own or work for a company that is missing the green movement boat, then climb aboard. This team can offer your company a range of services from producing sustainable events to targeting new customers with topical, eco-focused e-newsletters. Being savvy on sustainable issues and markets is not only a positive shift – it’s also a profitable enterprise. These guys exist to “help you learn to be an innovator yourself of more sustainable business strategies, products, and practices.” |
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Sustainable Spaces
If you’re renovating a home in California this team of specialized consultants & contractors to perform a Home Performance & Efficiency Analysis to discover where and how to make your home healthier and more energy efficient. The turnkey operation will even be your general contractor supervising their network of licensed contractors. |
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Sustainable Travel International
Calling all globetrotters! Finally – a site that exists to “promote responsible travel and ecotourism, support sustainable development, and help travelers and travel providers protect the cultures and environments they visit.” Book travel, buy local products, invest in clean energy with carbon offsets, and check out their Travelers’ Philanthropy program. Travel green! |
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SustainGeneration
Launced in Louisville, Kentucky, by a couple of brothers with a passion for educating the public about sustainable practices, Sustain has grown its online operation in the effort to reach a wider audience and provide the means for people to live a greener existence. Besides their advice and “free educational seminars addressing everything from green cleaning to composting to water and energy conservation and non-toxic cosmetics,” they also have an online store for those who want to source sustainable products. |
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TerraPass
TerraPass.com helps you to undo your contribution to global warming the easy way. Calculate your emissions based on car model and mileage or your flight distance. Based on that, buy a TerraPass and your money goes toward clean-energy projects that reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Yes, it can be that easy. |
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The Green Guide
The smart guys over at National Geographic have put together this comprehensive resource geared toward the common man, woman and child. Providing ongoing information about simple, do-able “baby steps” that one can take to make less of an impact on earth, it presents a non-intimidating vision on living with sustainability in mind. |
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The Green Standard
The Green Standard’s Mission is to advance global sustainability through the ways products are developed, selected and disposed of the end of their useful life. They work in a collaborative manner, often partnering with other organizations to develop education, technology and training in cost-effective and efficient ways. |
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The Green Zebra Guide
Live in northern California’s Bay Area or visiting there soon? Pick up a Green Zebra Guide full of coupons for eco-conscious businesses. Save thousands of dollars while supporting local businesses and learning how to live more sustainably in San Francisco. |
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The Playbook
As the green movement grows, more and more resources for collaborating to find simple solutions to complex challenges emerge. The Playbook is one of those. Providing a helping hand to local governments wanting to create more sustainable cities, The Playbook provides strategic suggestions for healthier, stronger communities. |
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TheFindGreen
Quick! Where do you buy organic cotton sheets? or an air purifier? TheFind.com web family now brings you a site to search for organic and eco-friendly products all in one convenient search engine. So when your sister's hippie boyfriend asks you where to find hemp sandals....you'll know just what to tell him. |
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Todae
A Sydney, Australia-based site offering practical advice for consumers and businesses alike for cutting down energy and water usage and reducint their environmental impact. |
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TreeHugger
It started as a blog about green issues before green was cool. Now it’s a huge green machine that’s been acquired by Discovery Channel to spread their message and info to more than 1.5 billion(!) people around the globe. Wow. |
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Trees For The Future
Since the early 1970’s Trees for the Future has been restoring tree cover to degraded lands. Keeping local populations productive on their own lands helps retain their culture and traditional livelihoods for future generations. Learn how you can support everything from planting a single tree to helping fund a trip for an agroforestry expert to all parts of the world. |
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Tryk
Our industry lives and breathes material samples, but there’s no reason that we can’t alter our practices a little to reduce landfill waste and oil use (consumed in the manufacturing process). Give Tryk a try the next time you work on presenting floorcovering, wallcovering or fabric options to a client. Tryk it – you’ll like it. |
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UsedCardboardBoxes.com
Save Time. Save Money. Save Trees. That’s the motto of yet another ingenious moving supply company out of California. Instead of throwing away misprinted boxes or overruns that will go to waste, UsedCardboardBoxes.com saves them and makes them available to you at super affordable prices. Free shipping is an added bonus. Not available in all cities yet, but we hope they go nationwide in the U.S. and soon! |
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Vertical Gardens by Patrick Blanc
French botanist Patrick Blanc specializes in creating breathtaking Le Mur Végétal – i.e., vertical gardens – for both indoor and outdoor applications. Depending on the climate and client needs, he concocts a living sculptural surface that requires no soil in which to thrive. Not only do his vertical wallscapes delight onlookers, but they add life to static, manmade environments and absorb additional carbon dioxide while pumping out oxygen. Talk about a breath of fresh air. |
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Water IQ
Texans unite to find out about your area water authority and what you can do to consume less water by fixing leaks, scheduling your sprinklers and generally be more efficient with this precious resource. |
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Waterleech
You love to garden. You love to shower. What if you could reclaim your “grey water” from the shower, bath or laundry and use it to water your lawn and grow your flower beds? Those creative Aussies have found a way to do it with a streamlined product with whisper quiet pumps. Now you don’t have to feel guilty for taking a long hot bath. |
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WaterSense
We all know that we should be saving water, but where to start? Start here. Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the WaterSense partnership program provides all sorts of water-saving tips. They even put their seal on products that are the most H20-efficient products. |
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World Changing
The smart folks at WorldChanging provide you with links and analysis of all the tools, models and idea they can get their hands on that could possibly effect global change. No negative reviews here – what’s the point? Instead the talk is about all the positive ways you can get involved. |
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Worn Again
According to their website, “over 1 million tones of textiles are thrown away every year in the UK alone.” Yikes. That’s why Anti-Apathy, the group who “promotes and supports people who take creative approaches to social and environmental issues,” started Worn Again. They repurpose a multitude of materials – like parachutes, prison blankets, and bicycle tires – to create cool stuff. Their most popular collaboration has been with Virgin Atlantic, whose seat covers find new life as bags. |
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Wysi Wipes
It’s magic! Wysi Wipes are durable, highly absorbent, biodegradable towelettes that expand from a dime-size disc into a full-size wipe with a tiny bit of liquid. The liquid you use determines what type of wipe it becomes. Add plain water to make a wet wipe. Or wet with vinegar and water to make a disinfecting wipe. Best of all, they don’t dry up in a canister like all those pre-moistened specialty wipes on the market. |
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Yellow Pages Goes Green
What the hell with phone books? As digital resources grow, so do our landfills. Stop the insanity of 10 different branded (and unwanted) phone books landing on your doorstop by using this free service, which contacts your local telephone company and requests that you no longer receive them. End the Page Rage! |
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Zero Foot Print – One Minute Calculator
This environmental not-for-profit organization primarily creates customized carbon footprint calculators for companies and municipalities, but this One Minute Calculator is a zippy little gauge of your personal environmental impact. Take if you dare. Take it if you care. |
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