Latest Stories in Bathroom Design - Page 5
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Seventh Generation Changes CEOs
Seventh Generation Inc. co-founder and CEO Jeffrey Hollender, who started the green tissue giant in 1988, is transferring power to Chuck Maniscalco, a former PepsiCo executive. The new guy better not mess with my favorite TP.According to
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What's The Most Dangerous Room in the House?
For LifeEdited, Graham describes his needs in the bathroom: The apartment needs to have a toilet, a sink, a shower, and perhaps a steam room. The setup should look great, be space efficient, conserve water and energy, and have low embodied energy. Must
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Why Is This Girl Smiling? Her Shower Just Ran Out of Water.
The biggest downside of having a tankless water heater is that it never runs out of hot water, and my daughter's showers can run forever and often do. Trevor Murphy in Queensland had the same problem, and invented the Aqualim shower head to deal with
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OneSelf Bathroom Has Works in the Drawer
For LifeEdited, Graham describes his needs in the bathroom: The apartment needs to have a toilet, a sink, a shower, and perhaps a steam room. The setup should look great, be space efficient, conserve water and energy, and have low embodied energy. Must
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Recycled vs Virgin Toilet Paper Is Like Paper vs Plastic Bags
There used to be a big debate about which is better-paper or plastic bags; now we know the answer is neither- bring your own. Perhaps the debate going on now about virgin vs recycled toilet paper is similar- the best solution is to use
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Minimalist Soap Holder Alert
Sure you could just toss the soap on the counter, or if you're lucky your sink has a little cut-in indentation for holding soap. But it's inevitable that that soap will end up a slimy mess as the water pools under the soap
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Yellow is the New Green
Over a hundred years ago, Teddy Roosevelt noted that "civilized people ought to know how to dispose of the sewage in some other way than putting it into the drinking water." We still don't get it right, building huge networks
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How to Shop Smart, Save Forests and Send a Message
You know that feeling when you walk into the paper product aisle at the market and you’re overwhelmed with choice? Being a green consumer, you naturally want to make a green choice, but how? And, maybe
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Bringing the Forest to the Bathroom with the Moss Mat
Those shampoo and soap commercials that always show people being transported to exotic outdoor bathing locations when they start using the product just might become a kinda sorta reality with this intriguing bath mat idea that brings
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Can Potty Poetry Reduce Wasted TP?
We've all been in bathroom stalls where poetry (at least by a loose definition) has littered the walls. But who'd have thought that poetry in the potty could make you use less toilet paper? A study by the research
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Transformer Bathroom Folds Into Wall Unit
all illustrations via Bathroom Design Awards For LifeEdited, Graham describes his needs in the bathroom: The apartment needs to have a toilet, a sink, a shower, and perhaps a steam room. The setup should look great, be space efficient, conserve water
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Last Report of a Crackpot: How Much Energy to Use the Toilet?
Thermostat Chicken King In the game of thermostat chicken, Turboglacier is holding a lead. The blogger from Portland, Maine, has not yet turned on the heating. The "crackpot" title relates to Turboglacier's penchant for musing on
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Terrific Toilets by Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmson
We spend a lot of time worrying about the design of our foreground buildings like art galleries, but give almost no thought at all to the prosaic, basic needs that every city should supply, particularly to those who are not in cars. So if you are a
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From Bauhaus To Outhouse: A View For Two Improves The Design
at Wikipedia), there is still a proper place in the countryside for a well-designed outhouse. For a small cabin or prefab in the woods, especially with a dwelling occupied a few weeks each year by only a handful of people, it's a cheap solution to a
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GreenBuild: I Have Seen the Future and it Flushes
For a long time this TreeHugger has been promoting the idea of residential composting toilets, saying that " If we are truly going to develop a zero waste society and protect our water resources, we are going to have to start thinking about dealing
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5 Great Reasons to Use Clay as Soap: Take the 1-Week Challenge, Part II
Look over your own bathroom shelves - you are sure to find more than a few bottles that never got used up, or have never even been used! Reducing that clutter was the goal during a one-week "clay only" challenge taken by
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At IIDEX: Trying Out the Dyson Airblade
James Dyson "is a man who likes to make things work better." He is sort of the Steve Jobs of industrial design, looking at problems and coming up with elegant and effective solutions. The airblade is like that; it uses 80% less energy than a
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Pee Green: Waterless Urinals Saving 22,000 Tons of Water a Year at Nankai Electric Railway
Nankai Electric Railway has introduced 73 waterless urinals at 18 stations on the Nankai and Koya train lines in Osaka, Japan. The urinals are the first of their kind in Japan and provide savings of around 22,000 metric tons of water and 12.7 metric
