Non Toxic Stain: The most sustainable furniture company in America must be sure to only use 100% reclaimed wood in its product thus harming no forest anywhere in the world. The next thing that is important is to develop a stain that looks beautiful, shows off...
This is simply a list of 30 things that you can do to reduce your carbon footprint, develop a sustainable lifestyle and help stop global warming. We all know that we should do something to help preserve the future of the earth but we sometimes lose sight...
Remember Ecology from the 1970s? The news is filled with stories that link our consumer habits and the products we buy with our health and the health of the planet. These stories contain lessons about becoming educated consumers: the recall of toxic toys from...
Things you can do to curb Global Warming (besides insisting on sustainable furniture made of reclaimed wood from Urban Woods) are outlined in this link!The United States. Though Americans make up just 4 percent of the world’s population, we produce 25...
Ford Motor Company’s first demonstration Escape Plug-In Hybrid is ready to roll on California roads. Ford today delivered the first of 20 research PHEVs to Southern California Edison to begin road testing as part of a unique partnership between the...
At the current deforestation rates, it is now estimated that 98 percent of Indonesian’s forest may be destroyed by 2022. Illegal logging is not just for the outlaws in Indonesia. In fact, in 2003, an estimated 73 to 88 percent of all timber logged in...
The U.S. Government Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ranked indoor air pollution as one of the top five environmental risks to public health. The EPA found that your indoor air pollutants may be 10 times higher than outdoor levels. Does this mean...
Driving hybrid cars and limiting industrial emissions is great‚ but they are band–aid solutions if we don’t address the core problem: we have to consume less. This is the message of Buy Nothing Day Join the movement to reduce consumerism and buy...
Everyone’s favorite search engine (as if you had a choice) is also a friend of the environment. Google offers its employees cash incentives for driving hybrid cars to work, it is responsible for the largest corporate solar installation in the U.S. and...
Recycling wood from old structures and giving it new life as beautiful furniture is a growing industry these days. Not only is it a waste diversion from landfills, but it also allows companies to source quality materials (and old-growth hardwoods) for a fraction of...
