Tag: Laundry
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Nice Idea From The Past: The Airing Cupboard
Keep your linen warm and toasty with a traditional British technique
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Cleverly Redesigned Clothes Hanger Reduces Wasteful Laundry Washing
This design aims to reduce water wasted by washing clothes that are not really that dirty.
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Most Popular Articles of September: Clever Uses for Binder Clips, Robotic Cheetah, and More
These 16 clever uses for binder clips will change your life! We also have a robotic cheetah clocking in at 28.3 mph, vintage food waste posters, and more.
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Method Introduces Sheet-Free Dryer Sheets
Nothing beats line-drying, but Method's new fabric-softener-meets-dryer-sheet spray is better than traditional dryer sheets.
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"Blindry" Doubles as Window Blind and Laundry Rack
A space saving, award winning design can be used as a window blind or a laundry rack.
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5 New Eco Cleaning Products Seen at Natural Products Expo West 2012
Making spring cleaning harmful chemical-free can be confusing with so many products on the market: Try these.
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Dirty, Unwashed Jeans Encouraged, Says Levis to Employees
For World Water Day, Levi’s has asked employees to change their laundry habits by wearing the same pair of pants five days in a row without washing them.
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Infographic: How Dangerous is your House?
Ecomom has a really cool infographic explaining the "surprise" toxins found in your home, from bathrooms to garages. It also highlights natural solutions for keeping a clean home.
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Get a Grip With EcoForce Recycled Clothes Pegs
We've mentioned before that electric clothes dryers are a household's second greediest hog of electricity, alone using 6% of all residential electricity in the United States. When weather conditions permit, using sunlight and a
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Great, Green Back-to-School Gear for College Students (Slideshow)
Whether you're a first-year or only two semesters away from that hard-earned degree in your hands, packing for college is never easy. But don't despair: Our back-to-school slideshow is here to make all those buying decisions easier -- and greener --
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Great, Green Back-to-School Gear for College Students
Whether you're a first-year or only two semesters away from that hard-earned degree in your hands, packing for college is a lot more than a notebook and a new three-ring binder. But don't despair: Our back-to-school slideshow for college students is here
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Clothesline Ban Leaves UAE Locals Hung Out to Dry
Residents of Sharjah can now add putting their clothes to dry on an outdoor line to the list of things that can get them into trouble in the
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Help Design a Better Clothes Line
Washers and driers are fast, easy, and convenient—but they tend to use a lot energy and water. Levi Srauss & Co., it turns out, has noticed. According to a study they commissioned, "60 percent of the climate impact comes during
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Care to Air Design Challenge by Levi's
Air-drying clothing is definitely the cheapest, and especially the most eco-friendly way of drying your clothes; no energy or machinery is needed. However, if you live in a small space, a rainy country or simply are a busy (or forgetful) person,
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From the Forums: No Itch, No Impact Detergent
treehugger012 could use some help: I have terribly sensitive skin, I cannot use dryer sheets and right now can only use Tide Free to wash my clothes, because I will break out if I was my clothes in anything
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Laundry's Dirty Secret: The Overdose Dilemma
I blog here about design as intention, which is to say that if you broaden your design intention to include social and environmental factors, your designs can become transformational.
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Method Commercial Turns Cleaners Dirty with Disturbingly Funny Shiny Suds (Video)
In so many cleaner commercials, the happy housewife works alongside singing, scrubbing bubbles that show how cheerfully the cleaner can battle soap scum, germs, and whatever other grime is building up in your
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Want Greener Clothes? Try Our 8 Tips for Less Laundry
The German mail order company Otto Group, who quietly rival Amazon.com for their international coverage, found that simple white long-sleeved cotton shirt was responsible for 10.75 kilograms of CO2 and other greenhouses gases
