A brand new eco friendly company, Environment-Furniture Inc, from Los Angeles has a new line of contemporary wood furniture with an organic quality. It is minimal, rustic, and environmentally responsible.

The Peroba Collection is made of 100 year-old reclaimed wood from Parana, Brazil and includes recycled woods. The wood is claimed from dense inner cites, small rural towns, farmlands and rainforests, providing true diversity in both appearance and texture. Also the wood has been weathered naturally to achieve a look that no manufactured wood stain can replicate.

Too bad you cannot order online yet, but the company has a nice PDF brochure. Its better than their website! They have a few galleries, and wholesale/trade locations in the United States…

Checkout the recyclable wood bed, computer desk, and coffee table.

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Some designers are experimenting with making durable goods made out of sugar. Its tough as plastic except it biodegrades easily once it hits the landfill. Plastic takes centuries to degrade while sugar can dissolve in seconds. So far lamps, golf tees and even necklaces have been made out of sugar. Most of this stuff seems in the design phase…

The SugarCubeLight is selling now after 1.5 years of research. The material includes 10 percent clear resin. It is still biodegradable and perfectly safe, but not tasty!

The SugarCubeLight provides a dim romantic ambiance compared to fluorescents, that even though are environmentally friendly because they last a while they are too bright and use a lot of energy for some needs.

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Elegant contemporary normal looking furniture on the outside, but on the inside its all eco friendly. By Viesso

All the wood from the upholstered furniture comes from green sources. The exposed wood furniture is made from bamboo from China. Bamboo is technically a grass and grows very fast, unlike trees. Moreover, it can be harvested by hand thus reducing the impact on the environment. Bamboo grows to a height of 6 inches and matures in 5-6 years.

The fabrics for Viesso’s furniture is green as well. It contains a good amount of recycled content and mostly natural fibers. The same goes for the fillers of the cushions ! Natural latex comes from the sap of rubber trees, and is a naturally derived biodegradable.. The feather fill options also come from birds that are being raised for food or other reasons. Of course they are cleaned from non-toxic substances.

Even the metals are made of recycled or durable materials. Metals can be recycled indefinitely without losing any of their properties, which makes their impact on the environment minimal.

Viesso even takes their furniture back and recycles it too.

You can customize your furniture online. Choose your layout, pick a filling, pick a fabric, pick a leg and have your sofa in 3 weeks!

Somebody tell me how much this costs! I don’t think hippies can afford this, not even sophisticated ones !
Check Viesso out today and tell me about it…

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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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Vivavi, established in 2003, sells stylish contemporary furniture online from Brooklyn, New York. As far as looks their fashion style tends to be very modern but functional. Their whole product line is eco friendly and obtained from pure and renewable, reclaimed and recycled, or resource and energy efficient materials.

Some of their products are made out of renewable materials that replenish quickly like bamboo. Their wood products are certified as sustainable harvested as well. And to the extent possible the products are made out of non-toxic materials.

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Vivaterra, has a slogan of “eco living with style” and do they! They are a very young online company based out of San Rafael, California. They only stock products that are well designed and elegant, yet come from organic or sustainable resources

Vivaterra’s eco friendly home and garden sample products:

Vivaterra’s eco friendly dining and kitchen sample products:

Each one of these platters is unique and hand crafted from Chinesefir trees.
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Eco-furniture.com offers the most amount of stylish furniture that is made from recycled materials or come for renewable or sustainable resources. They have more selection than any other web eco furniture retailer. The styles include contemporary, traditional, modern and country.

The website is owned by a company called Green Culture and they strive for a 100% planet friendly product mix. They push their manufactures and suppliers for goods made out of eco friendly material or processes. They also boycott or do not promote products from manufacturers that do not meet their environmentally friendly criteria. They anticipate that they can have more clout with their suppliers when they get more sales so it is up to us to give this eco friendly store a chance.

Pictured below is a representative example of their vast collection.

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