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Green ideas for weekend reading
Happy Friday! Super Eco wishes you a relaxing weekend with these green links to peruse at your leisure.The many roles of a tree Take the white oak some home owner placed in the… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (140 days ago) 4 comments -
Feature How to green your pocket garden
If a small plot is your plight, fear not for, it's pocket gardening to the rescue! Taking a lesson from good old mother nature, who can send up a shoot of something green through… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (184 days ago) 16 comments -
Reignite your love of candles
Candles can burn up your efforts at sustainability in no time flat. Chunks of leftover paraffin, lead and other heavy metals in the wick, ugly streaks of particulate matter… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (205 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Particulate, Eco-friendly, Sustainable, Indoor air quality, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycling, Post-consumer recycled, Soy
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Because We Can: Uber-hip, sustainable interior design
Why can't we work someplace this cool? We're not really sure why workers in offices designed by Because We Can designs would want to leave at the end of a work day. Steampunk… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (234 days ago) 9 comments- Definitions
- Sustainable, Eco-friendly, Recycling, Toxicity
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Real Christmas trees are greener
Reusable or not, fake Christmas trees can't compare to real conifers in terms of sustainability. Authentic Christmas trees--those lush, live beauts we ax down expressly to spruce… | Read the full article ›
By Kim Lachance Shandrow (263 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Composting, Deforestation, Consumerism, Recycling
- Web News
- msnbc.msn.com
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Twitter's eco-swanky office space
Twitter's newly eco-retrofitted office space is sustainably swanky, from the non-toxic cube furniture to the to last drop of non-VOC paint.Try tweeting that in 140 characters or… | Read the full article ›
By Kim Lachance Shandrow (290 days ago) 2 comments- Definitions
- VOC, Toxicity, Sustainable, Indoor air quality
- Web News
- geeksugar.com
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Home-worthy recycling bins: the good, the bad and the ugly
Why do recycling bins remain so obstinately, persistently, appallingly ugly? Oh, I've set up a pretty little basket for my daughter's arts and crafts paper, and I've got a trendy… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (304 days ago) 2 comments- Definitions
- Recycling, Post-consumer recycled
- Web News
- greenyourdecor.com
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A coffee cozy with a conscience?
I've always thought cardboard coffee cozies were for wimps. But soft, fuzzy Pepto pink cozies with smiling squirrels hand-stitched on them? They're too cute to pass up. Or are… | Read the full article ›
By Kim Lachance Shandrow (330 days ago) 22 comments- Definitions
- Upcycling, Waste Stream, Food, Consumerism
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Affordable, green decor can be yours
Living a more sustainable lifestyle gets tricky when it's perceived as "different" or "special." Maybe we're just grouchy lately, but we don't like to feel that we have to go out… | Read the full article ›
By Lisa Poisso (359 days ago) 0 comments- Definitions
- Organic, Eco-friendly, Sustainable, VOC, Offgassing, Formaldehyde, Toxicity
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Feature How to green dorm life
Every September is an opportunity for a fresh start as students head back to school. It is important to remember that old adage "well begun is half done" when planning your green… | Read the full article ›
By Lucy Meskill (366 days ago) 2 comments- Definitions
- Allergens, Fragrance, Gluten, Pollutants, Vampire appliances, VOC, Water filtration, Indoor air quality
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