Prepare to find some great articles that contain tips on living the green lifestyle. Discover how choosing your food carefully, decorating your home in style, or simply learning more about conservation can truly change the world. Read the short descriptions below and click the title to get more info.
LIFESTYLE:
Whether you are for or against the use of ethanol as a replacement fuel, this blog lists the pros and cons of prices, production, benefits, etc.
Dig Deeper to Cut Back on Water
There is a lot you can be doing as an individual to save water, aside from the ways you already knew. Find out what you can do to cut back on water usage, including:
- Going vegetarian
- Greywater recovery
- Incorporating green design into your house
- Choosing a living location that doesn’t use up natural resources
Less is the New More: Mainstream Media Edition
Consuming less is part of the green lifestyle. This includes the size of the home we live in. But just because you live in a small dwelling, doesn’t mean it can’t look fantastic!
DESIGN:
Designer Spotlight: Viesso Furniture
Affordable, modern and green, Viesso Furniture uses natural latex or feather/down filling instead of polyurethane for cushions and wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). They also use bamboo, recycled steel springs, recycled stainless steel legs, and water-based stains and glues, helping to reduce inside air pollution.
Commenting on the sleek style and green efforts of Team 7, this blog will introduce you to furniture that provides aesthetic elegance, as well as green craftsmanship. Team 7 has earned the Austrian Ecological Quality Certification for their ecologically-friendly production practices.
Designer Spotlight: Molo Design
Using mostly paper and textiles as their medium, Molo Designs creates aesthetically pleasing and functional pieces of furniture to accentuate your home decor. The products themselves are 100% recyclable, and recycled materials are used to make the products.
GREEN PRODUCTS:
Fold ‘N Go with Folding Bicycles
To get to where we want to be (in the environmental and physical sense), bikes offer an eco-friendly form of transportation. Since typical bikes are often bulky and hard to deal with once indoors, this blog offers different models of the folding bike.
Dig in a Little Deeper: 100 Mile Diet
People are doing the 100 Mile Diet, which calls for people to only retrieve food from the 100 mile radius around their home. This blog provides tips to maintain this diet, and gives suggestions of where to go while on the 100 Mile Diet.
Walking the Recycling Walk: Where to Get this Stuff
Recycling is more than you think. This blog explains the everyday uses of recycled material, and how you can get in on it by purchasing:
- Clothing
- Bags
- Interior design
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