Posts Tagged ‘green’

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Explore the Future of Textiles with Camira’s Hemp Fabric

If any readers out there aren’t familiar with the Richard Linklater film Dazed and Confused, I’d suggest they dial it up stat. Among the gems from this 70s coming of age pic, is this stoner’s hypothesis of the life of our first President: “everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man, when he come in the door, man, she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.” Read more

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Go For the Burn with the Xeoos Twinfire Wood Stove

Finding it difficult to shake the chill of winter? Wondering when our cantankerous climate might settle down and begin to show some consistency? Well, you and about six billion other people. Read more

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See the Future of Solid Surfaces with HI-MACS by LG Hausys

What does the natural mineral aluminum hydroxide, otherwise known as ATH, have to do with the future of surface treatments in architecture or design? Perhaps everything, as it turns out. Read more

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Old Meets New in the Inventive, Sustainable Gù Chair

Topping my short list of things I like about the Gù Chair is the fortuitous fact of its name and subsequent pronunciation, for there are few utterances in the English language as funny and fun as “goo.” Read more

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The Colorful Endy Collection by Shay Ve Ben

Have you ever wondered why you’ll occasionally see a recently trimmed tree with dark splotches of black paint at the site of the cut? How about those neat quarter ton stacks of 2x4’s with a broad swath of blue at the end? Read more