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 Our Month long look at how the AT community (both readers and editors) are living Green@Home is just past the halfway mark and we've seen many good ideas (both big and small) which have only whet our appetite for more. It's encouraging, interesting and inspirational - jump below to check out all the posts so far...We hope to hear from more of the community over the weekend. We've got more green cleaning products from Ecover to present to those who send us in a green@home submission and don't forget - you'll also be entered to win a set of Organic Cotton Bedding from Raksha Bella (which retails for $1165.)
From the Readers:
Chicago:
• Matt's Power Plan
• Lara's Gone Green
• Joe's New Place
New York:
• Jennifer's Natural Cleaners
• Anjuli's Personal (Shared) Garden
• Yash's Urban Greenhouse
• Cal's Very Green Drying Rack
Los Angeles:
• Jackie's Green Lifestyle
San Francisco:
• Mary Jo's Appliances
• TannerAdair's Bottling Effort
• Rebecca G's Green Move
• Jen's House
From the Apartment Therapy Editors:
Chicago:
• Simple Small Steps, Part 2
• Simple Small Steps
New York:
• Everything Old is New Again
• Maxwell's First Four Moves
• Saving While Shaving
• It's in the Materials
Los Angeles:
• Turning Off the Lights
• Bokashi Composter Update
• The Bokashi Composter
• Gregory & Emily's Green Garden Makeover
San Francisco:
• Grow Your Own Food
• East German Steel Net Bag at Kiosk
• Use a Rain Barrel
• Use a Power Strip!
• My Reusable Shopping Bag
• Environmentally Friendly DIY Projects
• Reducing Our Water Usage
INFO:
Please send us photos and info on how you live green@home. This is not a contest, just a way to build up an AT inspirational database of sorts on how real folks are living greener at home.
Simple, straightforward ideas are welcome, like how you deal with your recycling bin in a small kitchen, and so are ambitious projects - like your amazing green roof. We hope to have a big archive of ideas to inspire us all by the end of the month.
PRIZES:
  In exchange for sharing your green@home ideas, Ecover will reward the first 100 ApartmentTherapy readers, who submit photo/essays demonstrating ways in which their lives are green, with their choice of Ecover Liquid Laundry detergent , Ecover Dishwashing Liquid, or Ecover Glass & Surface spray cleaner. Each of the first 100 will also receive Ecover Heavy Duty hand cleanser.
 Raksha Bella will reward one lucky sweepstakes winner with a complete bedding set made from all certiefied Indian organic cottons. The set includes a queen-sized duvet cover, quilt, two pillow cases and two European shams in the winner's choice of three designs. The Classic Collection from Raksha Bella features sumptous textiles in traditional Indian prints, handblocked with lowimpact and vegetable dyes. Choose from the Raj Paisley (available in Indigo or Rum Raisin), Tree of Life (in Canton & Mimosa) or Indian Rose (in Dusty Cedar, Cress Green or Indigo). A retail value of $1,165.00.
HOW TO ENTER:
To enter the Green @ Home Giveaway, please submit below. Submissions will be posted from July 7th to August 1 and winners will be notified by August 8th.
RULES:
Please, only one submission per person. Duplicate submissions will be discarded.
This is not a contest.
The first 100 posted submissions will receive a gift from Ecover.
The winner of the Raksha Bella Sweepstakes will be randomly drawn from all complete entries (even those that aren't posted).
Winners must claim their prize within three business days after the date of notification of such prize. A Sweepstakes winner's failure to respond to the prize notification within the specified three business days will be considered such Sweepstakes winner's forfeiture of the prize and an alternate winner may be selected from the pool of eligible entries. If an entrant is found to be ineligible, an alternate winner may also be selected from the pool of eligible entries.
To enter, you must be a U.S. resident, age 18 or older to enter. Employees, partners and vendors of Apartment Therapy and their immediate family members are not eligible to enter. We will disqualify any entries that we believe are generated by scripts and other automated technology. When applicable, the winner may be required to execute and return within five business days an Affidavit of Eligibility and a Liability and Publicity Release to be eligible for the prize or an alternate winner will be selected.
All prizes will be awarded. No substitutions including for cash are permitted, except that Apartment Therapy reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater monetary value for any prize. Winners shall be responsible and liable for all federal, state and local taxes on the value of their prize. To receive a complete list of winners or a copy of the Official Sweepstakes Rules, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Apartment Therapy, 22 Howard Street #4i, New York, NY 10013.
 "Onigiri" for those who may not be acquainted with the Japanese snack staple is rice formed into triangle or oval shapes, wrapped together with nori (seaweed). It's one of our favourite snacks, so we might have been bound to find an affinity for NKS Architect's Oita residence...
  What's amazing about this cedar built home besides its unique shape is that it was designed not for some young modernist, but an elderly couple in a countryside village. Perhaps someone in Bakersfield will commission a US version shaped like a hoagie in similar spirit, but we don't think it would look quite as elegant.
 More photos of this light filled tubular home here, here and at the NKS Architects site.
 We've been huge fans of Aquarabbit (aka, Dana Robson) for years now. In a world full of chaos and sensory overload, her mixed media pieces (incorporating vintage book pages, maps, gocco, hand-stitching, canvas) of the natural world are subtle, gentle, and really lovely.
See more of her work here. The San Francisco-based artist's work is now for sale on one of our favorite sites, The Beholder. Some pieces are also available on Etsy.
(Edited from this post originally published 11.03.06)
Top Image: don't worry, i'm right behind you (for sale at this year's Art for AIDS Auction)
- Zinc Details
- Gifts and Home Accessories Sale: Spend $100+ and receive 10% discount instantly
- Sat., 7/19-Sun., 7/20
- 1905 Fillmore, SF
- Read our post here
Know of a good sale?
Send us the tip:
sf (at) apartmenttherapy (dot) com
Image: Hanger Wave
The Bean2Bed operates like a bean bag chair, but it's filled with foam instead of "beans." And that foam is in the shape of a mattress, stuffed into a bag for sitting, but ready to pop into a bed for sleeping. The removable, washable cover is faux suede, and we're wondering if the Bean2Bed does justice to either of its functions, or suffers from splitting the difference. We may never know, since right now the Bean2Bed is only available for shipping in Europe, for 225 here. But it's an interesting concept.
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