Posts with tag recycle

Dear Apartment Guru, It seems like you usually answer inter-personal questions -- but my question is just about being a renter. Especially since this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I am really concerned about ways I can make my apartment more environmentally polite. But most of what I am finding that might actually... Continue Reading »

The following idea -- recycling furniture with woven mats -- merges an affordable, do-it-yourself sensibility. In other words, it's every green-minded urbanite's dream. Not sold? Neither was I. That is until I realized that recreating this quirky woven tabletop look, pointed out by Design Sponge, requires neither... Continue Reading »

Growing up on a farm in Iowa, Randy Florke learned frugality. Everything that could be reused was, and most everything fit into that category. "Recycle" and "green" were not part of the vernacular, but the lessons learned in Iowa traveled East with Florke as he developed a business restoring and decorating farmhouses in... Continue Reading »

A green pop-up shop in New York City could be the world's largest exhibit space of eco-manufacturers and products of its kind. The Green Up Shop, a boutique and event space, is a joint production by upcycle manufacturer Terracycle, the Fashion Center Business Improvement District, the Port Authority of NY and NJ, and the... Continue Reading »

Think green home furnishings and it's all about bamboo, reclaimed wood and low-VOC varnish? Typically, yes. But now we have the folks at Coca-Cola making chairs out of..you guessed it...their old soda bottles. In one of the most unusual corporate mash-ups in recent history, the soft drink giant has teamed up with the... Continue Reading »