Archive for May, 2007

Furnishing a Greener World - Arhaus

Arhaus Green Furniture
Arhaus Furniture offers sustainable furniture in contemporary and antique styles. They have never used wood from the world’s endangered forests, and build with woods certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. They also bring you recycled copper, wood and glass. A lot of their furniture pieces are also made of pure marble, stone, and brass

Each store also has unique restored furniture in country style scattered throughout their showrooms. They are selected from China and even so they still look American Country antique. You get the satisfaction that you are getting a truly unique antique piece of furniture. There is definitely no mass production here!!

Their furniture is also hand-assembled and handcrafted mostly from small family businesses throughout the world from Europe, Asia or the US Midwest.

You can purchase most of their furniture from their online store as they can ship to you. They have about 25 stores mostly in the Northeast US and Ohio where they are based, but they have locations in Virginia, Florida and Colorado…

Check out the Arhaus furniture online catalog You will be impressed that attractive furniture can look eco friendly. Definitely not something you will find at the local Target or Ikea !! Arhaus is not 100% green but they are giving it a good shot – more than the other furniture companies can say…

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The Asus EcoBook will be the first Bamboo laptop

Asus Ecobook Bamboo Laptop
Don’t get to exited yet as it is due for a 2008 release. It features recyclable materials and it will be modular in design so you can easily take out and replace parts instead of throwing the whole thing away or handing it down …Also paints, sprays and electro-plating have not been used on the components. It should make for easy recycling then…

Some wise commenter said that bamboo consumption would lead to less bamboo population and thus less pandas!! But of course bamboo can probably be harvested in a sustainable way and a laptop is used for years anyway before being thrown away. Hey at least the case is biodegradable. It’s not waterproof I would say, but then most laptops are not…

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