Articles tagged “Eco-Friendly Living Rooms”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Tearing Down Walls By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jul 30 2008 Humans like to separate things. We love it. The human mind is a classifying machine. Just look at Linnaeus. He classified the heck out of some animals. It is human nature to separate and to classify and to make judgments based on those separations and classifications. + READ MORE

5 Reuses for: Pillows By Natalie Cook IN Wrecklamation Jul 27 2008 Has your fluffy pillow suddenly gone flat? Don't toss your beloved bed buddy! Retire your favorite pillow and then reuse it. Here are my five ways to keep pillows out of trash piles. Beef up your mattress. Who says... + READ MORE

Little, Little Boxes By Megan Cohen IN Home & Garden Jul 25 2008 Micro-dwellings reduce the residents' ecological footprints to the tiniest possible minimum. The next time you're at a moment when moving houses is an option, think about the eco-impact of heading to a new place that has one or two bedrooms fewer than your current residence, or giving up some inches and slimming down to... + READ MORE

Be Green: Work at Home By Natalie Cook IN Work & Connect Jul 21 2008 On Greenovate, Ryan Flegal converts a 2,300 square foot factory into his home and office space.Reduction of transportation pollution: When your commute is reduced to moving from the bedroom to the living room, you eliminate the need for cranking up your car. More efficient use of space: Using one space for multiple... + READ MORE

Green And Gutsy Design By Megan Cohen IN Home & Garden Jul 21 2008 Eco-friendly technologies and splashy aesthetics totally go hand in hand. Cruise thrift stores, flea markets, and even the curbs of your neighborhood for totally one-of-a-kind secondhand furniture finds that can be given sassy new life in your living room. + READ MORE

Green Your Workout! By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 3 2008 We all know that exercise is a crucial part of a healthy lifestyle, but as we saw on the G Word recently, not all exercise is eco-friendly.Consuming tons of power with your treadmill or using bicycles that COULD have been constructed out of materials that are more green are not the best exercise choices when it comes... + READ MORE

Wa$ted Episode: Where There's Smoke... By Team Planet Green IN Wasted Episodes Jun 30 2008 Joe is engaged to Laurel, and they live in a house in rural New Jersey with her sister, Alexa. They love living in the country and their house would be a perfect model of green living, except that their road... + READ MORE

Wa$ted Episode: He Said, She Said By Team Planet Green IN Wasted Episodes Jun 26 2008 Glynis is very interested in making her household eco-friendly but doesn't know where to start.   Her husband Howard, on the other hand, is not so concerned and would rather take convenience over conservation. Checkout the Planet Green Schedule to catch... + READ MORE

Alter Eco Episode: Our Own Backyard By Team Planet Green IN Alter Eco Jun 19 2008 Popular actor and sustainable living activist Adrian Grenier, who's renovating a 1920's house in the historic, hip Los Feliz neighborhood, gathers green-conscious friends Angela Lindvall, Boise Thomas and Darren Moore to help make a stylish, earth-friendly difference in Los Angeles.... + READ MORE

Paint Your Picket Fence Green By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 12 2008 If you're a Soccer Mom or a World's Greatest Dad living in a suburban community like the one we visit in Episode 2 of World's Greenest Homes, try these small steps to make your household more eco-friendly. + READ MORE

Find Durable, Healthy Used and Antique Furniture By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jun 6 2008 Buying second-hand, thrift, antique, and otherwise used furniture is a great way to go green in your home. Picking up something that's new to you, but doesn't require any more new materials to be used, is one of the best ways to green your home's interior. follow these tips to help determine the durability and health of your potential new piece. + READ MORE

Watch Out for Formaldehyde in your Home this Summer By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden May 30 2008 We've seen that formaldehyde, one of the more formidable indoor air pollutants, can be found in everything from your furniture to your flooring, and the risk of exposure is even greater in the warm summer months. With the heat right around the corner, learn how to minimize your risk. + READ MORE

Can I Use Teak for My Hardwood Floors? By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden May 7 2008 Looking for green flooring options can be tricky, with claims of "green-this" and "sustainable-that" becoming increasingly popular in the marketplace. Here's how to find truly green flooring options. + READ MORE

Opt for Greener Cushions on Your Furniture By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Apr 25 2008 How well do you know your couch?And, as soy increases in popularity not only as food but as a feedstock for biofuel, there are increasing agro-political implications of growing soy; mostly, that means that farmers are growing more of it, some using genetically-modified seeds, some using more pesticides so it'll grow... + READ MORE

Think Big in a Small Space By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 10 2008 Gregory De Peña and Kelly O'Neil turned their 650-square-foot San Diego apartment, which they dubbed "a shoe box" in the Spring 2008 issue of O at Home, into a spacious home that hosts parties and guests with equal aplomb. Don't forget flooring: Another trick the couple used to make the space feel larger was laying... + READ MORE

Supplement Virtual Gaming with Traditional Exercise By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Mar 3 2008 While video games such as Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution can help get your ankle-biters off the couch and involved in physical activity, University of Michigan fitness experts say they should not supplant traditional exercise because they burn few calories.Although interactive games-which can require as little... + READ MORE

Detox Your Living Room: Part 2 By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Feb 21 2008 This is the second part of Detox Your Home: In the Living Room. Keeping your home's air-conditioning filters clean increases its efficiency and saves 350 pounds of carbon dioxide from escaping into the air per year. Get more tips in the continuation to our living room detox guide. + READ MORE

Detox Your Home: In the Living Room, Part 1 By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Feb 21 2008 Though it seems like our homes should be safe havens from the pollution that lurks outside, indoor air quality actually tends to worse than that beyond our front doors. But you can put the 'live' back in 'living room' by following the simple steps outlined below, and showing any unwelcome guests the door. + READ MORE

Make a Small Space Look Bigger in Seven Steps By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 22 2008 If square footage is at a premium where you live, you can still make the most of your living space-and learn to live with less-so you don't feel like you're squatting in a glorified closet.Use glass: Glass-topped tables and glass shelves take up less visual space than dark, opaque pieces. + READ MORE

Refurbish Your Lampshade By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 15 2008 Give your tired, old lampshade a makeover-and save yourself the trouble and expense of buying a new one-with one of these quick and easy lampshade projects that you can finish in less than a day. + READ MORE