Playing catch up: Yes to green homes after Labor Day

Unlike white shoes, green homes will always be acceptable no matter what the season. Featured in today's round-up: Floor lamp planters, drying rack chairs, no-till gardens and designer CFLs.

Fri, Sep 10 2010 at 11:55 AM

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Energy Efficiency, Green Architecture, Green Building, Green Design

Image via Yanko Design

Apartment Therapy provides "Tips for Mastering the Fine Art of Dumpster Diving."

The New York Times fends off weeds ... with recycled newspapers. An essential tool in no-till gardening, newspapers are a carbon-friendly alternative to gas-powered tillers that "not only pour hydrocarbons into the air, but also release CO2 when they churn up the soil."

Shelterpop drools over the super-stylish, LEED Platinum Mill Valley, California, home of architect Scott A. Lee.

GOOD invites readers to send in photographs of the favorite neighborhood building. Ten to 20 of the photos will be selected to be part of a crowdsourced Picture Show and one winning image will be printed in the next print issue of GOOD.

Yanko digs the design concept for Lean, a chair with a railed back that doubles as an indoor drying rack. That's it pictured above.

Mocoloco admires Tutoring, a nifty two-in-one floor lamp/planter designed by Aurélien Veyrat and Tanguy Nguyen.

Jetson Green notes the rising popularity of the Plumen 001, a striking-looking designer CFL that's only available in Europe at the moment (it arrives stateside next year). For some serious light bulb eye candy, check out the video embedded below.

Fast Co. Design asks "Can Architecture Help the Elderly?" UPenn professor and Architizer co-founder Matthias Hollwich is convinced it can: "I believe that sustainability (saving the planet) and designing for an aging society are the two biggest topics we as designers have to tackle in our lifetime."

The Daily Green talks food coops and recycled toilet paper with Fran Hawthorne, author of The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism.

TreeHugger proclaims that "Recycled Pallets are the New Architecture."
The Wall Street Journal ogles a lakefront property in Bigfork, Montana, that features rustic cabins built from reclaimed wood, an organic cherry orchard, and antlers aplenty.

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