February 10, 2012   1-877-631-2845

Uses For Bamboo: Reusable Water Bottles!

Bamboo Bottle

Blog post-wise,  one of our big hitters has been our post about 19 Uses For Bamboo.  As a sort of a coda to that the larger-scale post on this humble green blog, here's a twentieth product to add to that list. Where you might not consider building a bridge out of bamboo, wearing a bamboo motorcycle helmet, or planning to spend eternity in a bamboo coffin (!), finding a reusable water bottle made out of bamboo may be a more reasonable investment. Bamboo has been established as an eco-friendly … [Read more...]

Green Building Materials: Look, Performance, and Ethics Too

About a year and a half ago, we launched our green building guide and green flooring guide.  The reason for these pages was to get information out thereabout our specific products, and also about the very idea of green building materials as options for ethical renovations. Even at that point, not too many consumers knew too much about things like LEED points, for instance, or even about post-industrial tile, or strand-woven bamboo floors.  I think that has changed.  And I hope we've been a … [Read more...]