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Etsy Finds: Cotton Tea Towels

Tea towels seem to be the kitchen towel du jour, but as Susie recently pointed out, not all towels are created equally when it comes to absorbency. Based on her advice, here's a roundup of 100% cotton...

Beer-Cycle Bottle Opener by Raphael Betillon

Combining two of our favorite things (bikes and beer!), French architect Raphael Betillon takes forks from old bicycles found in junkyards or bike cemeteries, cuts them in half and repurposes the bike...

StillTasty: The Ultimate Shelf Life Guide

Milk, peanut butter, oil, tomatoes, beans – when do they go bad and what can we do with them before they expire? How should they be stored? Can they be frozen or microwaved? Not knowing the answers ...

1,001 Uses for White Distilled Vinegar

We love white distilled vinegar. We don't love the way it smells. But we love it. It's pretty cheap, it's non-toxic, environmentally-friendly, and you can use it to do (literally) like a thousand th...

How To: Never Waste Food Again

If you live in San Francisco, where throwing out your food scraps is now illegal, you're probably looking for more ways to use every last bit of your produce and other food waste. • Read the ful...

What Are Some Non-Cooking Uses For Bacon Grease?

Q: Before my dog Lulu passed away, we fried up some bacon for the lass and kept the bacon grease. I'm vegetarian, so now that she's gone I have this can of grease, which I can't cook with. Are there n...

A Sweet Green Kitchen Remodel

There's nothing more disheartening than looking at an over-the-top green remodel. All we can ever think about is how we'll never be able to afford anything like it .... ever. So a tasteful, small-scal...

7 Food Certifications, Explained

We try to eat well, but with the increasing number of “healthy,” “organic,” or “all natural” food labels, it can get a bit confusing on what’s important or even legitimate. Luckily Treeh...

AT on... The Continuing Coffee Debate

Each morning as the trip to the office nears, we turmoil about stopping at a coffeeshop on the way in. For months, we brewed our joe at home, but over the hot summer that fell out of favor and the cof...

Feel The Love: Trader Joe's Super Amazing Kitchen Cloth

Ever since we posted about those Twist Euro Cloths, we've been meaning to get our hands on them. Since ridding ourselves of our paper towel habit, we knew we needed a replacement, and fast. So, this w...

Pedal Powered Beer Pub by Hopworks Urban Brewing

The folks at Hopworks Urban Brewing have come up with a green and stylish new way of serving and transporting beer: by bike! They've built a pedal-powered bar on the frame of a cargo bike that holds t...

Top 5: Green Cookware Choices

Looking to update some items in your kitchen and hoping to make a greener choice? Here are some options you might want to check out... • Read the full post at Re-Nest...

7 Ways to Reuse a Banana Peel

To be honest, the only things we’ve ever thought banana peels were good for were to fill the compost and to make people fall. Then we came across these genius ways to reuse the slippery guys. &bull...

Inspiration: Vintage Tea Packing Chest Kitchen Cabinets

Discovered in a three floor Victorian house in Shoreditch, London, the exterior of these kitchen cabinets are actually lids of vintage tea packing chests... • Read the full post at Re-Nest...

How To Hand Wash Dishes To Conserve Water

It seems like most everyone we know has a dishwasher, supposedly the optimal way to get your dishes their cleanest and save water. We don't have one, so we wanted to find out what tweaks we could ma...

Green Style: Green Mid-Century Kitchen Remodel

After 10 years of working in a cramped 1950s kitchen, the owners of this kitchen gave it a sustainable update. They reused the existing appliances, but installed a host of new updates that made this k...

10 Things You Can Recycle You Didn't Know You Could

If you're like us you hate throwing anything in the regular garbage. It seems like such a, pardon the pun, waste. But there's some stuff you just don't know what to do with. Check out our list plus ...

Worth It or Not? Green Non-Stick Skillets

We've been curious about eco-friendly non-stick skillets for quite awhile now. So, when we saw that Cook's Illustrated was testing eight different brands, we were excited to see the results ... &bull...

How To Make Your Own Fruit and Vegetable Wash

Even if you buy organic, it's a good idea to wash your produce before you consume it to rid it of germs or residue. While water works, a wash can help you use less water; they're also effective at for...

Joel Salatin on Big Organic and the Future of Food

If you've read Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, then you are no doubt familiar with Joel Salatin, the "high priest of the pasture," as The New York Times called him in their May 2005 profile. ...

Best Market Baskets

We love the bounty of summer. The stands at the farmer's market this past weekend were heavy with high summer produce. I had my reusable bags with me at the time, but I couldn't help wishing for a mar...

The Flatshare Fridge: Perfect for Roomates!

You can put the "Don't Eat Me!" and "This Is Not Yours!" notes away for now. Stefan Buchberger, a design student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna has designed the Flatshare Fridge — a fri...

Simple Green: The Pizza Box is the Plate

I actually do this all the time when we order pizza: simply tear the box in half, divide the pizza in two, and eat it right off the cardboard. (It helps that I'm a voracious eater and can consume, at ...

Wal-Mart Pushes for Green Labels

Is Wal-Mart turning over a new leaf? It looks like they're trying. According to The New York Times, Wal-Mart is on a mission to go green, developing a universal rating system that scores each of their...

Vintage Airline Food Carts by Flight 001

Be your own air steward with these vintage airline food carts. Flight 001 has gathered up these food carts, taken them out of the plane and covered them with bold graphics to be used in your home... ...

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