Danny Seo shows how house plants can brighten up a home and help you live a green lifestyle. Eco-living can be economical, fun, and functional in the LIME Original Series, Simply Green with Danny Seo. It’s a hip and modern take on the classic reuse, reduce, recycle rules, with simple but stylish ideas for going green!
Danny Seo explores a store that features eco-friendly furnishings and accessories for the home.
Danny Seo shows off the innovative ways urban dwellers are going green. City-gal Cheryl Terrace built a chic Tribeca loft with healthy construction methods, and filled it with colorful eco-friendly designs.
Style and sustainability go hand in hand when you reuse, recycle and remodel old wood into fabulous and funky furniture. Danny Seo has some tricks of the trade you won’t want to miss.
Green living can be gorgeous living! Turn your house into an eco-home with Danny Seo! He’ll visit a company in Brooklyn that turns ordinary recyclables into bold and beautiful kitchen countertops and show off a smaller scale project you can do at home.
Leslie Hoffman, executive director of Earth Pledge in an Ethical Market, discussion about green architecture. She focuses on energy efficient workspaces and dwellings of urban real estate developers; and features a look at New York City's first aggressively engineered energy efficient green rooftop.
Sure, we greenies can sit around in our solar-powered cafes talking about straw bale this and graywater that. But when a mongo trade group like the National Association of Home Builders says green is the new sexy, you know something big is afoot.
Attention Chicagoans. (Chicagoites? Chicagoistes?) The Hyde Park Art Center, all aglow in a new location, is offering the chance to feel your city's roots. Or to feel some kind of roots, anyway: Among the reopening exhibition's new works is a modular green roof installed by Chicago artist Stuart Keeler, who says he was inspired by the many green roofs he saw from his studio window while working in Germany. The exhibition, called Takeover, features art seeking to "utilize, incorporate, correspond or disrupt a particular space" of the new building, according to the Center. (Hey, they can disrupt my asphalt-shingled roof anytime.) Takeover runs until June 11.
Of the many rising stars in the field of green architecture, Richard Cook is arguably the brightest. He has a theoretical rigor and passion for sustainability on par with William McDonough. He has the design ingenuity of Frank Gehry. So it’s not surprising that Cook is quickly making his name known among the vanguard of 21st century architects.