http://www.urbanwoods.net beyond sustainable furniture Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:28:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [gallery]More and more designers and retailers are choosing to make their custom furniture from reclaimed wood with the eco-friendly manufacturing processes available from Urban Woods. Retailers and designer agree that the peace of mind and quick turn around time of our sustainable, domestic production beats their former sources over seas. ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/custom-made-eco-friendly-furniture-by-urban-woods/ [caption id="attachment_234" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Reclaimed Douglas Fir at Urban Woods"][/caption]The term "reclaimed wood" may conjur many different images. Some might imagine sunken logs that have been rescued from Amazonian river bottoms, or old barn siding from a dilapidated Southern plantation, or a peasants home raized in the third world ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/reclaimed-wood-furniture-made-in-los-angeles/ The Th!nk eclectric car company is on the brink of bankruptcy again and the Norwegian government is not likely to give the EV maker any money. According to the Norwegian news source Dagbladet the government will not step in, saying that helping one company but not others was not sound ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/think-on-the-brink/ Kirei Board inlaid in Palisades dining table. Kirei Board is a beautiful, sustainable creation manufactured from reclaimed agricultural fiber from the Sorghum plant grown around the world for food. The stalks of this plant are usually burned or thrown into landfills after harvest. The stalks left over after harvest are ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/kirei-boardbeautiful/ So, do we bail out Detroit or not?  What do we do about the UAW? This is a video of a new Ford plant in Brazil. One look at this and  you will instantly be able to tell what is wrong with the manufacturing plants of the US car makers and ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/ford-detroit-out-brazil-in/   Ben & Jerry's has teamed up with Greenpeace to unveil an environmentally-friendly freezer being called, "The Prius of Refrigeration." The freezer, which will eliminate dangerous F-gas emissions found in standard freezers, runs on about three cigarette lighters' worth of propane. Greenpeace is hoping their initiative, called "Greenfreeze," will catch on in the U.S.A. as ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/ben-jerrys-serves-up-green-ice-cream/ Norway will give Brazil US$1 billion to preserve the Amazon rain forest, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday, as long as Latin America's largest nation keeps trying to stop deforestation.The Amazon loses the equivalent of one-and-a-half football fields of forest every minute to logging, ranching and farming, the Brazilian environmental group ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/norway-gives-billion-dollars-to-protect-amazon-rain-forest/ U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson presents the LEED Gold Award to Chen Zhili, head of the Beijing Olympic Village. (Photo courtesy BOGOC) The Beijing Olympic Village received a LEED gold award from the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, certifies that buildings have ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/beijing-leeds-the-way-to-sustainability/ According to France Telecom, the brains of young children absorb twice as much as radio frequency energy from a cell phone as those of adults. Their research appears in the July 7 issue of the journal "Physics in Medicine and Biology" and  it confirms that peripheral brain tissues of children seem to ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/kids-on-cell-phones/ Norwegian music festivals lead the way to sustainablility by becoming the first music festivals to sign on with the UN Environment Program for climate-friendly events. The Canal Street Festival in Arendal, Norway and the Hove Festival on the island of Tromoya, outside of Arendal, are lowering the carbon footprint of the ... http://www.urbanwoods.net/sustainable-furniture/norways-sustainable-music-festivals/