Tag Archives: green home

Free DIY Shipping Pallet Chair Plans

A friend in need is a friend indeed, but a friend who builds is better! So what do you get when you throw two architects and an eco-builder together? Awesome Adirondack chairs made from shipping pallets. You can make them too with a few tools, a couple of screws and shipping pallets.

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Let Them Eat Dirt! Why Dirty Kids are Healthy Kids

let them eat dirt

Superbugs and flesh-eating viruses may have you liberally basting your children with hand sanitizer, and cleaning your home with chemicals that promise to send bacteria packing. But, as it turns out, dirt is actually good for our kids!

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7 Tiny Houses that are Borderline Genius

tiny home

As the Tiny House Movement gains traction, designers and builders are thinking outside the box to find brilliant ways to use small spaces. Here are just a few examples of tiny houses that are breaking the mold and challenging all the reservations you had about living in a small space.

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The Seven Toxic Cleaning Chemicals You Should Avoid

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Artificial substances such as surfactants, carcinogens and fragrances are all too common in the cleaning industry, and have been linked with a myriad of health issues including cancer. Here are the seven chemicals you need to avoid using in cleaners and cosmetics.

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A Standing Desk can add Years to your Life

Why standing desk

Do you sit for more than six hours as day? Your sedentary work environment is wheeling you and your office chair to an early grave. (Postulations that work is actually killing me? Confirmed!) The answer? A standing desk!

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