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Heat Pump Dryers for Low-Impact Laundry

Heat pump dryers are an exciting, relatively new electrification technology. One can cut perhaps 10% of your household energy use.

Heat Pump Dryers for Low-Impact Laundry

Heat pump dryers are an exciting, relatively new electrification technology. One can cut perhaps 10% of your household energy use.

#EcoRenovate Guide to Selecting Sustainable Materials

Selecting sustainable materials is every bit as important as green design. So look at the entire lifecycle of a product, and make decisions based on what’s most important to you.

Restorative Environmental Design for Mental and Physical Wellbeing

Restorative Environmental Design combines sustainable practices with beautiful and biophilic design strategies to benefit your mental and physical wellbeing.

Embodied Carbon: Reduce Your Home’s Hidden Carbon Footprint

Embodied carbon accounts for creating and installing the materials in your home—and could exceed the total carbon footprint of operating your home for decades.

Biophilia & Color: Enhance Your Home’s Connection to Nature

Luxury designer Margarita Bravo shows us how biophilia melds with creative wall and textile colors. They can be so much fun, yet serene and harmonious.

Bird Populations Are Crashing: Here’s What You Can Do Today

Birds flying into windows and becoming disoriented by light pollution contribute to massive bird deaths worldwide. Problems that you can help solve at home.

7 Green Building Trends Home Buyers Are Helping To Set

“Eco-friendly” is getting a chic makeover. From innovation in materials to major curb appeal to biophilia and bringing the outdoors in, these sustainable trends are leading the charge when home buyers are hunting for their next home.

Explore More Eco Trends

Eco-Friendly Zzzzzz’s for a Healthy Night’s Sleep

We need to sleep, but we shouldn’t have to sacrifice our health or our planet to do so safely and comfortably.

If you’re reading this, you’re probably aware of the fact that conventional mattresses are made from unsustainable materials, emit toxic VOCs that are bad for your health, and need to be replaced far too often – only increasing their eco-impact by requiring more resources and creating more pollution. (If you didn’t, now you do.)

Yet, thankfully, more and more manufacturers are dreaming up ways to do things better. After much research, here’s a list of 19 of the sustainable industry leaders.

See Eco Upgrades for Your Bedroom

We need to sleep, but we shouldn’t have to sacrifice our health or our planet to do so comfortably. If you’re reading this, you’re probably aware of the fact that conventional mattresses are made from unsustainable materials, emit toxic VOCs that are bad for your health, and need to be replaced far too often – only increasing their eco-impact by requiring more resources and creating more pollution. (If you didn’t, now you do.) Yet, thankfully, more and more manufacturers are dreaming up ways to do things better. After much research, here’s a list of some of the industry leaders.

See Eco Upgrades for Your Bedroom

Products We Love

Meet the brands that are making a difference through materials, manufacturing processes, corporate responsibility, and social impact.

Italian Masters of Style Champion Sustainable Tile

Here are some of the Italian brands of sustainable tile, making a difference as they lead the way in home decor trends.

Nontoxic, Natural Pest Control for a Healthier Home & Planet

Pest control is unpleasant. But nontoxic, natural pest control methods reduce harmful pesticides in the environment, and keep your home safe and healthy.

Sustainable Furniture Brands That Will Keep Your Home Healthy And Stylish

From sustainably sourced materials to mindful manufacturing practices to nontoxic materials and end-of-life cycles, we’re laying out what you should look for when buying sustainable furniture, and a few brands to choose from that adhere to these elements.