does anybody know where I can find info on the lighted tub pictured? the green one. Thanks. cmklein21@gmail.com

The lighted green tub (if i remember correctly) was one of the products in the "un-treehugger" lists. based on how much power is wasted and what it's made from.

So how it made it onto the treehugger picks is a little odd...

**Author's comments**

Andrew,

Thanks for your note, and keen eye -- you're right about the tub. In this case, I wanted a visual representation of "green" and "bathtub" (as in, "do this to make your tub greener" rather than "look at this goofy green tub") to accompany the "make your own non-toxic cleaner" story -- good pictures of baking soda and vinegar are hard to come by!

-CD

Out of curiousity, has Treehugger covered the British tv show that McCarthy was on, It's Not Easy Being Green? It was an awesome documentary show about a family and many of their friends who restored a huge old farmhouse and small farmland into a sustainable, mostly off-grid green home and teaching center. It starred one of the more entertaining guys from the Junkyard Wars (Scrapheap Challenge) show a few years ago, and they built most of the contraptions themselves (a waterwheel, Biodiesel distillery, solar heated greenhouse, etc.) and grew/raised most of their own food as well, but still loved their coffeemaker, and said that they weren't hippies!

There is supposed to be a second season next winter or spring I believe.