Urban Woods is showing its newest Sustainable Furniture lines in the “Living Green Pavilion” at the Las Vegas World Market. The Living Green Pavilion is a perfect environment for furniture manufacturers to showcase their new lines of sustainable furniture....
What do you get when you cross a Wilcox with a Trousdale? a Wildale! A perfect blend of rustic and refined reclaimed wood blended together to create a unique new collection. The creative minds at Rum Runner Home came up with the Hybrid furniture design...
Designers and retailers are choosing custom furniture from reclaimed wood with the eco-friendly manufacturing processes available from Urban Woods. A custom wood dining table can be made to your specification up to 15 feet long. Retailers and designers agree that the...
The term “reclaimed wood” may conjure 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 razed in the third world because...
Kirei Board panels make up the doors of this custom credenza from Rum Runner Home in East Hampton, New York. Kirei Board furniture is a beautiful, sustainable creation manufactured from reclaimed agricultural fiber from the Sorghum plant grown around the world...
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...
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...
Al Gore has released a plan from his home office in Nashville titled “A Generational Challenge to Repower America.” The plan is to get everyone on board to tap the entrepreneurial spirit of our nation and convert our dependency on fossil fuel to a...
Do you like fresh air, do you like the environment, do you care? Considering the data about junk mail may make you feel green in a whole new way. Read it and weep and then pick up your phone and cancel all those Pottery Barn and Frontgate...
A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide. You can measure your carbon footprint by using a carbon calculator which tells you how much...
