How would you like to set your kids up with some contemporary, eco-friendly furniture that they will love, that will grow with them, that will be healthier for them and that will have all the other parents green with envy? Well, that promise is here. The ICFF recently took place and children’s furniture companies were on hand to showcase their product lines. The Lazy Environmentalist reveals what's new in green kiddie furniture.
Green products are emerging at a quickening pace, making it easier than ever to easily and stylishly green our lifestyles. LIME's Lazy Environmentalist explains why "green design" just may be better design. Learn about great green products--such as bamboo--that are not only healthier for the planet, but extremely hip and functional too!
Green design has come along way just listen to David Johnson of What’s Working. David speaks to LIME about how green building has become mainstream. He illustrates the impact green building has in the construction industry by becoming a standard as well as how green building is not what people initially think.
Another day, another neurosis about eating right and living a good life. Su Avasthi on why it ain't easy being green.
I've long been a fan of ABC Carpet and Home, the lush, somewhat boho-chic houseware emporium in New York City where you can spend hours roaming about on the creaky wood floors and coveting one item after another. So it was with deep satisfaction that I read a story in today's New York Times about the company's president and CEO, Paulette Cole, and her two-year-old grand plan to turn the store's inventory into a wonderland of sustainability and social consciousness.
Having recently waded into political activism with his girlfriend Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt is now lending his star power to matters green. That's right, Brad will be narrating "Design: e2, " a six-part documentary slated to air in June on PBS about "the economies of being environmentally conscious." It will explore how everything from building design to recyclable clothing can dramatically lighten civilization's environmental footprint in the 21st century.
If you tossed your old cell phone in a drawer and forgot about it once you brought home that shiny new camera model, you'll want to check out a new exhibition at London's Science Museum. "Dead Ringers" looks at what happens to the cell phones we discard, ways of recycling them, and greener designs for the future.
With an online component as well as a featured gallery on the BBC's web site, you don't have to go to London to soak up the mobile 411. Cell phone handsets that end up in landfills can leak toxic chemicals - yet only 10 to 15 percent are recycled. According to the exhibition, there are seven billion cell phones in the world, but only 1.3 billion users.
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Inspiration: Carl Sagan, Jim Henson, and Tori Amos.