6 Tips For Cutting Through Greenwashing
Plenty of products are trotting out their green credentials, but how can consumers and the people who build and decorate homes for us – architects, builders and interior designers, tell what’s transparently green, or greenwashing?
Metropolis magazine recently asked designers – builders, architects and interior designers about their approaches to green spaces. Their responses highlighted some of the shortcomings of cutting through the greenwashing to find the
Never Say Never(land): UN Names Tinker Bell Ambassador of Green
The United Nations has named Tinker Bell–a leading citizen of both Disneyland and Neverland–as its “Honorary Ambassador of Green” to help promote environmental awareness among children.
Kermit the Frog once observed in song that “it’s not easy being green,” but he was talking about skin color, not lifestyle. For Tinker Bell, being green isn’t just easy, it’s as natural as flying.
The pint-sized pixie first appeared as
12 cool things to do with used dryer sheets
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Since nearly half of all marriages in the U.S. now end in divorce — and those that do last less than eight
