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The Unlist: 9 Holiday Gifts Not to Buy
I’m so over the annual mandatory retail blitz which prompts us to purchase scads of presents no one needs (and few can afford). Enough is enough. Necessity is one thing; waste is another. Be an angel and give material items only to the needy...
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...
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...
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...
Original Green Artist Kenny Scharf – Still Basking in the Limelight
My old college bud, Kenny Scharf, is arguably the original green artist – a brilliant guy from L.A. who began his career nabbing trash from the streets of Manhattan and embellishing old appliances with his phantasmagorical, Fifties-inspired, sq...
Entertaining and Environmental: 12 Free Green DIY Projects
Stuck inside on a rainy, dreary day? Have a hankering to start a new, crafty project? Using random objects and materials from around your home, these fun and eco-friendly DIY projects will cost you little to nothing. Scrap Paper Notebook You have a ...
Before Chanel, Coco Was Eco
Not since Scarlett O’Hara upcycled those curtains to make a crazy green velveteen dress have we seen such industrious textile make-overs on the screen. Yes, Anne Fontaine’s Coco Before Chanel is the quintessential tweed rags-to-riches sag...
Are We Finally Weaning Off the Bottle?
Bottled water sales have dropped for the first time in at least five years as a result of vocal environmentalists sparing the landfill and a recession that has consumers giving tap water a shot. Americans drank 8.7 billion gallons of bottled water ...
