Have you ever noticed that smell that new vinyl shower curtains have? It turns out that smell might be endangering your health, at least according to the LA Times.  In an effort the transform all areas of our life toward “eco”-ness, my husband and I decided when we moved that rather than buying a [...]

Green This! Greening Your Cleaning by Deidre Imus (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007)
The good
Green This! is an excellent primer on toxins in the home. The book begins with Deidre Imus’s own commitment to reducing her toxic burden and then presents the facts behind such topics as indoor air pollution and health problems caused [...]

(photo by Rob Lee, used under a Creative Commons license.)
This past Sunday, Jeff Opdyke penned his “Love & Money” column for the Wall Street Journal on “The (Too) High Price of Being Green.” Opdyke’s lament about the high buy-in costs of going green around the house struck a chord with this suburban mama:
I [...]

Container residence (and photo) by LOT-EK

There’s an interesting discussion going on in the comments of this post at Inhabitat and at Archinect about repurposing shipping containers as housing construction materials. Some folks find the resulting homes ugly; others suspect they’re unsustainable. You can learn about other container projects at Brand Avenue. [...]