Sustainable Flooring Options: Tile Made with Recycled Content

If you’re looking for tile for your bathroom, kitchen, foyer, or laundry room floor, consider those made with recycled content. From porcelain and ceramic to terrazzo and glass, tile flooring made with recycled content is getting easier to find in today’s marketplace. Benefits of tile include easy cleaning and maintenance, and its stain-resistance, [...]

Sustainable Flooring Options: FSC Certified North American Hardwood

With several beautiful species of woods to choose from right here in North America, like Maple, Hickory, Walnut, Oak, and Antique Pine, it’s easy to make an environmentally-friendly choice when looking for long-lasting, durable hardwood flooring.

Sustainable Flooring Options: Real Lineoleum

Another great option for resilient flooring is linoleum, not vinyl as many people refer to it, but real linoleum made from linseed oil, wood or cork flour, rosin, jute (backing material), and mineral pigments. These natural ingredients are abundantly available and renewable.

Sustainable Flooring Options: Cork, It’s Not Just for Wine Bottles

This week, I’ll be writing about various sustainable options for flooring beginning with cozy, comfortable cork.
Cork is the bark of the cork oak tree, grown mainly in the Mediterranean. Harvesting includes not cutting down the tree, but by removing (by hand) about 50% of the bark and drying it for a period of 3-6 [...]

The Natural Bed

For those of you who have back problems, trouble sleeping, or chemical sensitivities, all-natural mattresses may provide the solution to a good night’s sleep. These mattresses are typically made of 100% natural rubber latex which is inherently resistant to dust mites, is hypoallergenic, and has anti-microbial properties. Non-toxic fire retardants are customarily used [...]

Shopping for Green Goods Just Got Easier

You probably want to be kind to the environment in any way you can. One way to be earth-friendly is to use your purchasing power to increase the demand for green products. Since the demand for such goods has been growing in recent years, more and more green stores are popping up all [...]

Green Countertops…Safer Than Granite?

In light of my series of blog posts last week about kitchen countertops, I thought I’d write about an another advantage of green countertops — they don’t emit radon or radiation like some granite.

Kitchen Makeover Series: Green Countertops, Part V

How can the ancient craft of Terrazzo be translated into the 21st century? How about mixing porcelain from pre-consumer sinks, tubs and toilets with an epoxy resin or cementitious binder to create cool countertops and flooring.

Kitchen Makeover Series: Green Countertops, Part IV

Onto the next innovative green countertop…This sustainable surface called eco-X, is a blend of 70% recycled glass and cement. It is ideal for countertops, table tops, bath and shower surrounds, vanities with or without integrated sinks, fireplace surrounds, and walls in both residential and commercial applications.

Kitchen Makeover Series: Green Countertops Part III

Another resourceful solid surface countertop, Alkemi, is made from fine flake aluminum milling scrap and polyester resins. “By re-purposing this aluminum scrap which commonly burns up as a heavy smoke pollutant during conventional aluminum recycling, Alkemi leaves no hazardous footprint.”

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