Walking through a high-end furniture showroom last month, I watched a salesperson confidently explain how their $3,000 dining table was "completely eco-friendly" because it had some kind of forest certification.…
The construction crew next door has been making an absolute racket for three weeks now, and honestly? I'm grateful. Not for the 6am jackhammer wake-up calls – nobody deserves that…
You know, I spent three hours yesterday helping a bamboo flooring manufacturer navigate their first LEED certification application, and honestly? It reminded me why I both love and occasionally want…
Walking through my friend Sarah's apartment last month, I couldn't help but notice how every piece of furniture told a story about her growing environmental consciousness. Her coffee table, crafted…
Walking through a job site in Green Bay last Tuesday, I spotted this lumber truck parked outside the trailer office. Wisconsin white pine, milled locally, still had stamps from a…
Last month I found myself standing in a furniture showroom in Charlotte, North Carolina, watching a salesperson enthusiastically pitch a "sustainable" bedroom set that had traveled roughly 8,000 miles from…
My phone rang at 7:30 AM last Tuesday – never a good sign. It was Margaret, the facilities director at Riverside Recovery Centre, and she sounded frazzled. "We've got a…
I'll never forget the look of horror on my client Sarah's face when she discovered her brand-new bedroom set was slowly poisoning her family. The off-gassing from the particle board…
Walking through Patricia Urquiola's latest showroom in Milan last month, I couldn't shake the feeling that something profound was shifting in luxury furniture design. Here was a space filled with…
Yesterday I found myself crawling under my kitchen table, checking out the particleboard core of what I'd thought was solid wood when I bought it five years ago. You know…