Design decisions influence our health. Our children start life with umbilical cords infused with chemicals that affect the essence of human life itself – the ability to learn, reason and reproduce. Google’s project coordinator for real estate, Anthony Ravitz, said that Google is trying to use safe building materials because: By focusing on the “health …
I just came from showing our fabrics to a well-known interior design firm here in Seattle. We were told that the only criteria they use to pick fabrics is that it must be beautiful – and of the right color. Environmental and safety issues are just NOT part of the equation. The visit was not …
In 1970, Toray Industries colleagues Dr. Toyohiko Hikota and Dr. Miyoshi Okamoto created the world’s first micro fiber as well as the process to combine those fibers with a polyurethane foam into a non-woven structure – which the company trademarked as Ultrasuede®. In April 2009, Toray announced “a new environmentally responsible line of products which …
The questions is whether it’s a better choice to use inherently flame retardant fabrics such as AvoraFR rather than a natural fiber (like cotton) which has been doused with toxic FR chemicals. The answer is complicated and like most in this emerging green area, there may be no “best” answer. We think the answers may …
The Environmental Working Group has a new campaign, to gather support for the new Kid Safe Chemicals Act. To understand what the fuss is all about, we’ve copied the page from the EWGs web site, below, but you can go to http://www.ewg.org/kidsafe and see what you can do to help. There is a declaration you …
Did anybody see the Goyard canvas shopping tote for sale over the holidays? It cost $1065, plus $310 if you wanted a triangular “recycle” symbol painted in gold. The canvas was advertised as being “100% recyclable”. Let’s not go into all the ramifications of that one product, but I want to use this example …
The new Children’s Environmental Health Center of the Mt. Sinai Department of Community Health and Preventitive Medicine (www.childenvironment.org) is looking into, as they say, a “whole host of diseases that come from toxic environments”, including: asthma, autism, allergies, ADD and ADHD, leukemias, brain cancer and birth defects. The chemicals they focus on in the YouTube …
In case you’ve missed it, we’ve had some nice writeups about us lately, and thought we’d share them with you, also because these blogs or sites are great resources for your inquiring minds: http://www.interiordesign.net/blog/1860000586/post/200034620.html http://www.interiordesign.net/blog/1860000586.html http://www.worldchanging.com/local/seattle/archives/008818.html http://www.ecofabulous.com Radio Interview with Harry O (he asked great questions!): http://thegreenhour.com http://www.consciouschoice.com/2008/09/omathome0809.html http://www.furnituretoday.com/article/159898-O_Ecotextiles_honored_as_a_leading_green_supplier.php http://www.hometextilestoday.com/article/CA6617284.html?nid=2063&rid= http://www.naturerepurposed.com/2008/11/top-green-building-products-for-2008.html http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/homefront/2008/11/25/ecotextiles-wants-to-transform-the-way-fabrics-are-made/ Happy reading!
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