This week, we've covered a number of ways to green your life at home at Re-nest, including as Emily Kroll's beautiful new line of sofas made with FSC-certified wood frames and without flame retardants. We've got more, too, including great reader ideas for lower-impact moving. A few of our favorite posts from this week below...
• Do you let your dog sleep on your bed? Where do you come down: free heat or too much mess?
• Stephanie chooses the best items in this summer's VivaTerra catalog... we're eyeing the recycled beer bottle glasses.
• Reused boxes? Check. Moving blankets? Check. We're looking for your good ideas about moving green... we've got two weeks and counting.
• And a project for the electrical engineers (or the intrepid) among us: how to convert your pollution-spewing lawn mower to run on solar power.
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Re: Ekla Sofas
Whaddaya know?
Great looking, US Made and Environmentally Friendly!
Can't wait to see how competitive the pricing is...
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So is the idea here that not using flame retardants is a "good" thing? Since flame retardants are required by law in many states (and rightly so in my opinion) good luck selling those sofas...
Yes, both my dogs sleep on the bed. Mess? What mess? Once the bed is made they follow me downstairs and don't generally go up there again till they decide it's bedtime.
As to lawnmowers there's no such thing as a "green" electric lawnmower. The batteries are toxic. Yes they can be recycled but the process is extremely electricity-intensive. Unless the production and recycling plants get their electricity from renewable sources like hydro, it ain't green.
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That "without flame retardants" bit appears to be an error...it should be "without toxic/chemical flame retardants" or something like that. Per the website linked, "Furniture follows California Code 133 requirements without using toxic chemical flame retardants. Aside from the furniture's passing Cal TB133, we should also state that it passes Cal TB 116 for residential use, that all of the fabrics pass Cal TB117 and that all of the wools actually pass NFPA701 for hospitality use."
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