Super Eco

Photo credit: Design Moves Me

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 less. (I did, with just one character to spare!)

Like the tweet character limit, the Twitter team only had so much wiggle room (and money?) to eco-update their small San Francisco SOMA district digs. CEO Evan Williams "hired" none other than his designer wife Sara Morishige Williams to add a few gorgeous green touches, including:

• Sleek, non-toxic office furniture
• Reception desks made from reclaimed barn wood
• Renewable rattan pole-topped couches (Sounds so comfy!)
• Twitter's now-famous logo sculpted from yet more reclaimed barn beams

And what would a geeky Internet HQ be without all the usual nerdy bells and whistles? There are plenty of those, too:

• Ubiquitous Wifi
• An arcade game (Who's copying Microsoft HQ?)
• An iPhone-controlled Sonos wireless multi-room sound system (DRE-free!)
• Freecycled turn table tricked-out DJ booths

Yes, Twitter's "greened" office is beautiful, for an office. It's even adorably accented with soft, fluffy "Home Tweet Home" pillows. Aw, cute. But is it truly energy-efficient? Is it solar-powered? And how much of Twitter's solid waste is recycled, reduced, reused (diverted from landfills)? Did Twitter green far enough?

Maybe not. Simply slapping up a layer of bright, non-VOC paint and a few planks of old barn wood doesn't exactly cut it as "green building" these days. It's no Empire State building 2.0, but it's a tweet-worthy start.