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Reclaiming Old Furniture With a New Edge

Laurent Corio designed this new take on an old piece of furniture. The trestle legs, reminiscent of a saw horse, give this old table a whole new aura. As an antique fanatic (maybe a strange pastime...

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Art Glass: Bottles in the Sun

Western Art Glass creates amazing art from reclaimed bottles: building a mobile from beer bottle bottoms, or wrestling a curving leaf from the side of a discarded wine bottle. From the geometric,...

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Handmade Options for Winterizing Your Home

Brr! It feels like the temperature dropped over night! According to the folks at EPA's Energy Star, about half of our home energy use goes to heating and cooling our homes, and we use the vast...

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Give Your Household Cleaners a Green and Nontoxic Upgrade

(Photo: @rgs/flickr) Household cleaning products contain VOCs and other toxic substances that are found in levels up to five times higher inside the average home. Is your home hiding a miniature toxic...

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Share Some Sugar: Conserving Resources by Sharing Tools, Building Community

When 24-year-old Keara Schwartz bought her first home in Cincinnati, she was shocked at all of the stuff she "needed" to own as a homeowner: items ranging from a tall ladder to get leaves off the roof...

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Top 10 Tips for Creating an Eco Friendly Home

This post comes to us from our partners at MHA Lighting, who specialize in energy efficient LED Lighting. As the polar ice caps diminish and our climate becomes ever-more erratic, it should be a...

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Infographic: America’s Cancer Clusters

We talk a lot about indoor and outdoor air pollution around here, so when I ran across this infographic at sustainablog, I couldn't resist sharing it with you guys. It gives a lots of information...

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