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Fight Home and Office Ozone: Plant Some of These Greenies

by Jeff Kart, Bay City, MIchigan on 09.12.09
Design & Architecture

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Photo by PinkMoose, via Flickr.

Plants are not all doom and gloom, like when it comes to volatile organic compounds.

Plants can filter ozone from your indoor air. That's ozone as in smog, a common pollutant floating around in homes and offices, released by copy machines, laser printers and even some indoor air purification systems.

Don't expect an Ozone Action Day alert at your office. The colorless gas has been linked to reduced lung function in humans.

But there are ways to cut ozone in your home and office, by taking in a few plants.

Pennsylvania State University researchers recently conducted a study, looking at what three common house plants --- the snake plant, spider plant and golden pothos --- could do for indoor ozone.

Tests in a simulated indoor environment showed that each of the three plants helped deplete levels of ozone in 38 to 120 minutes.

All three species were equally effective.

The results were published in a recent issue of HortTechnology, a journal of the American Society of Horticultural Science.

More from TreeHugger:
Indoor Air Quality: Causes Of, Testing, and Monitoring Indoor Air Pollution
Laser Printers are a Big Source of Indoor Air Pollution
Bad Green: Some Indoor Plants Release VOCs

Colorado Firefighter Training Goes Green

by Eric Leech, New York, NY on 06.27.09
Design & Architecture

Firefighter Training Pollution Photo
Photo via: Amagill

While not often a target of environmental groups due to the increased preparation and safety it promotes, a firefighters training regiment is anything but green. Such training often involves the controlled burning of vehicles, hay, and wood structures. The byproduct of such a rigorous training schedule results in thick, black, billowing clouds of toxic smoke and fumes, which not only simulates the danger to the firefighters and victims, but also the environmental catastrophe these types of fires promote.

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Way Basics Offers 20% Off All Furniture Products

by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island on 06.18.09
Design & Architecture

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Image via Way Basics.

A few days ago we covered Way Basics, a company that has invented simple, basic furniture that is practical and versatile. The Way Basics line of modular furniture is made from the company’s signature zBoards, a super-durable board made from post-consumer recycled paper that weighs much less than particle board. Each zBoard comes equipped with 3M double-sided tape, eliminating the need for tools or hardware and making assembly as easy as peel, stick, done.

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Earn Extra Income By Renting Out Your Excess Space

by Eric Leech, New York, NY on 06.14.09
Design & Architecture

For Rent: Walk-in Closet... $150, Food Pantry... $75, Couch... $50 a Night

The struggling economy has brought new opportunity to the budding entrepreneur. It is called renting out your excess space, and it means more than just renting out a portion of your house to a trustworthy tenant. Renting space can be anything from a single bedroom, closet, garage, or even just a couch for the night. Do you have more home than you really need? Perhaps you can capitalize on it and make a nice monthly income in the process...
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Shipping-Container "Box Office" Breaks Ground in Providence

by Matt Grigsby of Ecolect.net on 06. 4.09
Design & Architecture

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Courtesy of owner, Peter Gill Case

Sure, shipping container buildings are nothing new conceptually, but when was the last time you actually saw one being built in the US? That's what we thought. Earlier this week in Providence, Rhode Island, a new project broke ground. An office space made from reused shipping containers, the "Box Office" is being built on a land parcel in a post-industrial neighborhood of the city and is quickly becoming an attraction for local start-ups.

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O'BON Offers 20% Off Eco-Friendly Pencils, Stationery, and More

by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island on 05.19.09
Design & Architecture

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It’s that time of the year…the weather is getting warmer which means more events and more lists, which also means more notebooks and binders to organize. If you need to stock up, look no further than O'BON, an eco-friendly pencil and stationery company that has been gaining visibility due to the eye-catching design of their products.

O'Bon's colorful pencils are made by tightly wrapping recycled newspaper around graphite, and they're much more durable than traditional pencils made from wood. O'BON's notebooks and folders are made from recycled materials and bagasse (aka: sugarcane) paper, which has less impact on the environment than traditional paper.

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TheSecondLeaf.com Offers 10% Discount On Office Supplies

by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island on 05. 8.09
Design & Architecture

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Looking to make your desk area a bit greener? Enter TheSecondLeaf.com, a one-stop hub for eco-friendly office supplies and technology. Offerings include products ranging from energy efficient laptops and servers to paper and pencils consisting of pre/post-recycled consumer waste. The primary goal of TheSecondLeaf.com is to make it easier and more affordable than ever for eco-minded organizations and individuals to purchase green. Additional resources on the user-friendly website include consumer product reviews, product comparisons, and articles providing hints and tips on going green.

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Transformer Furniture: The Nod Office by Stephen Johnson

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 05. 6.09
Design & Architecture

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Allison Arieff shows the work of inventor/cartoonist Stephen Johnson, calling him "a sort of R. Crumb meets R. Buckminster Fuller." I found the Nod-Office particularly interesting.....

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