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Getting Our Green On at EcoSalon
The hard working contributors, columnists and editors at EcoSalon are earning their green stripes, blazing the trails and taking their proven commitment to sustainable living beyond the daily blog. Our strides are so darn exciting, we simply canR...
Furniture Lab Experiment with Facelifts
It’s the kind of lab I wish they offered in school instead of chemistry. Meet Chroma Lab, a collaboration of two furniture doctors, Alicia Cornwell and Tony Bevilacqua, who merged their fine art skills and history backgrounds to transform ̶...
Bubble Trouble: Recycled Flutes Paired with Tasty Bruts
Be the host with the most eco savoir faire. Follow our lead and pair organic bubbly with born-again vessels for celebrating the spirit of reusing and recycling. Your green guests will drink to that! Of course, mine will drink to anything. Cheers to...
Revisiting Dickens’ Scrooge: Was He Mean or Kinda Green?
Don’t be hating on Scrooge. There might have been some green blood flowing through that iniquitous heart of steel. True, Ebenezer was a clueless curmudgeon, hardened by celibacy and tortured by a dysfunctional relationship with money. An abusiv...
Flash in the Pantry: 8 Ways to Make Storing Less Boring!
Who says the pantry has to be a catch-all black hole for prolonging that shelf life? That’s what high school lockers are for! It’s time to take stock in our most commonly used household storage nook, and make it as inviting as a vintage ...
Want an Offer You Can’t Refuse? Show ‘Em How You Reduce & Reuse!
They say it’s a buyer’s market and agents love listing those dwellings with solar panels, efficient water heaters and appliances, good insulation and nontoxic flooring and finishes. Here are a few easy green fixes for your property to re...
Styling on a Yulestring? 10 Frugal and Festive Fall and Winter Displays
Sure, you’re forced to take down the ghosts and fuzzy spiders (news flash: your neighbors are pissed if you haven’t done so), but some of the seasonal elements we put up to get in the mood should endure until the end of the year, if no...
A Redesign to Check Out Now
Despite a general consumer slump, the eco marketplace is sizzling as stylish shoppers continue seeking earth friendly products. In fact, when it comes to green, demand is up. That’s why stylish home eco retailer, VivaTerra, has announced a fre...
Kaiser Permanente: Save Trees and Thrive
Kaiser Permanente is prescribing big doses of sustainability in the sixth season of its $50 million Thrive ad campaign. Two new ads – Emerald Cities and Connected – reinforce the health care provider’s commitment to the planet by d...
Sink or Whim? Either Way They Bowl Us Over
Porcelained out? Carve your niche with an alternative sink for soaking up greener materials like certified teak, bamboo, recycled metal and glass and friendly painted ceramics. You can even experiment with poured concrete with 50% recycled fly ash, ...
Cash Strapped Readers Spare a Dime for America’s Cheapest Family
It may have been published a couple of years ago, but Americans are now catching up to the message of Steve and Annette Economides and are eagerly plunking down their pennies for the hot home economics crash course. The authors of America’s Ch...
Halloween Hangover? 5 Tips to Avoid the Scary Stuff and Stay Healthy
Mmmm. CANDY! Just smell the bowl full of those darling, little bars of CANDY. Just look at those chewy bites of CANDY! Now, walk away. That’s right. Walk away and no one will get hurt. Halloween is really one of the hardest nights to stay disc...
Totally Tubular Wine!
It’s not your grandmother’s wine box! This 3-liter tube contains a premium, rich and structured California Cab – the first release by winemaker Barry Gnekow, who went looking for a way to drink outside the box and to entertain with...
Send Your Green Message on a Stamp
If you’re sending correspondence through the mail these days, why not design your own stamps to promote your green message? Many sites, including Zazzle.com, allow you to either select from their designs or customize your own using photos or i...
Is That a Woolly Pocket on Your Wall, or Are You Just…?
I’ll get my mind out of the gutter and onto the green, where it belongs, and tell you about my latest obsession – plants in pockets. I’d heard of hanging plants and plants that are potted, but the idea of putting a plant in a cloth-like poc...
Ag-Caustic! Battling Toxic Compost Giveaways in San Francisco
At first, it seems extremely eco-friendly, the biannual Compost Giveaway Events every fall and spring in San Francisco hosted by the city’s Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). Residents are offered free compost to produce soil for community a...
Cutting Edge Concept: the Flow2 Kitchen
The kitchen could be considered the hub of a home. It’s the spot where people congregate at parties, despite protests from the hostess; it’s the place a family gathers to break bread as often as three times a day. There are all types of kitchens....
Grown Up Twin Beds for the Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em Set
In light of the recent survey finding many of us secure a better night’s sleep in separate cocoons, it might pay to return to the days of twins. You know, lie back and watch a show, roll over for fun, head home to your crib for a snooze so you ...
Warning: Female Vocalists Have Too Much Plastic Packaging
The album title is Fearless but the message is be flawless. So what if you can sing. Are you drop-dead gorgeous, model thin and loved by the camera? When young female vocalists are over-styled to sell, something serious gets lost in the packaging: Ra...
10 (More!) Green Apps for Your iPhone
If you’ve already downloaded the Top 10 Green iPhone Apps and are itching for more ways to stay sustainably entertained, here’s a list of 10 more to keep you busy: MyMPG $2.99 Similar to greenMeter, MyMPG helps drivers maximize their fue...
Green Gourmet Cupcakes on the Rise with the Vegan Wise
If you haven’t heard, fancy-shmancy cupcakes are stealing the hearts of America as we downsize our celebrations with treats that fill us up, not out. For a growing number of sweet teeth, four bites and one candle do the trick as we replace the ...
The Ceramic Industry: Is a Little Green Better Than None at All?
It wasn’t the answer I had hoped for, in fact it threw me. And when I finally landed it was clear I had my next topic for EcoSalon. Is ceramic an eco-friendly material? Not really. Ceramic is certainly not 100% eco-friendly, although it does b...
Psst! Enter the VivaTerra Re-Invention Contest and Win a $500 Gift Certificate
Reduce, reuse, recycle… and re-invent! Going green is often a creative process, and we green gals are always brainstorming new functions for an assortment of old items, from wine bottles to sarongs and everything in between. Well, how would you lik...
A Jug of Vine for the Pure Design of Terrariums That Grow on Us
Call it a succulent message in a bottle: terrariums that capsulize nature’s beauty and grace without requiring high maintenance and daily watering to thrive. You probably have the ideal vessel stashed some place with your vases. Get inspired an...
Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt: A Shift in the Barbie Paradigm
No one growing up during the upbeat, Mattel-directed Sixties figures they’ll be worse off in middle age, forced to scrounge harder for work, buy less, live smaller. Those Barbie songs my sister and I sang along to in our pink and green room con...
Solar Sonoma Swamp Rock
When blues singer/guitarist and songwriter Susan Tedeschi takes the stage at the Rodney Strong Winery in Healdsburg, CA on Saturday, August 22, around 6 PM, you’ll be hearing deeply soulful, raw emotion laced with tender vulnerability in a voice ...
Top 10 Planet-Friendly iPhone Covers
Since you splurged on the new iPhone, you’ve downloaded the best green apps and researched fun things you use it for as you’re going green. But, being the eco geek that you are, you’ll also want a cool, sustainable iPhone cover, right? ...
Name That Eco Baby!
A for Apple, B is for Beluga, C is for Chullo. Parents on planet Hollywood and elsewhere are headed in that fruity, foamy and woolly direction in declaring devotion to Mama Earth via naming their young. In the roaring Nineties, when real estate and d...
