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Oberlin College’s Seed House Shows Students What It Means to Live Green
College provides ample opportunities outside the classroom to learn about going green. And what better way to learn about living green than to actually do it yourself? Oberlin College’s Seed House provides an interesting example of how people can...
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Biodegradable Furniture Gives Eco-Minded Consumers Some Food For Thought
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” It’s an old saying that reminds us how we all end up just as we began, but it also sums up the idealism behind the growing market for biodegradable furniture. Material that decomposes into dust sounds like a nice a...
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EPA Considers Petition to Restrict Formaldehyde Emissions in Wood Furniture
Friends of green furniture and foes of formaldehyde have a new cause to support as the EPA considers a petition to restrict formaldehyde emissions from engineered wood products and certain building materials. Formaldehyde is a colorless gas that ...
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Parents and Teachers Lead the Green Movement By Example
Does the green movement have staying power, or will it fade into obscurity over time? Eco-activists tell us we need to live green and buy green for the sake of future generations. And according to Andrea Ford’s article Growing Up Green, our child...
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New Kind of Folding Chair Features Greener Packaging
Reduced packaging represents one way manufacturers and retailers can green their furniture. But if you ship chairs and tables in pieces, how do you minimize packaging without making the components too difficult to assemble once they’re out ...
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Recycled Furniture Bares All for Eco-Conscious Consumers
When it comes to recycled furniture, there are three kinds to keep in mind:Furniture that contains fully processed recycled content you can’t see anymoreFurniture made of recycled components you can still seeFurniture that actually is the o...
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One Good Chair Contest Seeks Eco-Friendly Chair Designs
A week or two ago, we mentioned a site that shows you how to go green by designing your own cardboard chair. But if you’re a serious designer with a competitive streak, the One Good Chair competition offers $4500 for an innovative, eco-frie...
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EU Entertains Green Regulations for Wood Furniture and Products
Do you know where the wood in your table or chair comes from? It’s a natural question to ask yourself if you’re serious about living green through the furniture you buy. As you might guess, a lot of wood used in your furniture comes from carbon d...
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Industry Experts Pick the Best of the Best Green Furniture
When it comes to defining what makes green furniture “green,” most people in the know would say it’s all about the low emissions materials, recycled content, reduced-content packaging, cardboard siding and other eco-friendly fea...
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Cardboard Furniture Makes Home and Office Decor Greener Than Ever
Green furniture fans can give you three reasons to use cardboard as a building material:It’s cheap.It saves trees compared to traditional wood.It’s lightweight, so you can move it around more easily.As a result, cardboard furniture ha...
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