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		<title>furniture friday: hollow dining set</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		
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Made from a stunning combination of light and dark bamboo, the gorgeous Hollow Dining Set comes to us from Brave Space Design, a Brooklyn-based group of designers whose goal is to bring quality high-end modular, multi-functional objects into the home and office setting.  The Hollow Dining Table is a terrific example of how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>furniture friday: legna lamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		
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As much as we love the organic modern design of the Legna Lamp from Jef Designs - available at Design Public - the thing we love even more about this light fixture is its energy efficient design.  Whether it&#8217;s the table lamp, the pendant, or the wall sconce, every Legna Lamp requires a CFL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>going for green in beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		
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Beijing&#8217;s Bird&#8217;s Nest stadium houses a rainwater recycling system
All of the athletes competing at the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing will be going for gold in their respective events this year, but the Beijing Olympic committee has been aiming for a  slightly different shade of success: green. Thanks to its astonishing economic growth, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>smart home podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		
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As you may know, the Smart Home at Chicago&#8217;s Museum of Science and Industry is about more than demonstrating the latest innovations in green building.  The exhibit - featuring the first ever built mkSolaire - also showcases lots of terrific examples of new technologies designed to make a home, well, smarter.  Or rather, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>smart home interview: smart home’s smart gadgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>granite: bad for the earth, maybe bad for your health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		
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Of all the countertop  materials we use for in MKD homes, granite is certainly not one of them.  We love countertops made from more eco-friendly materials like recycled wood fiber and cast concrete countertops that incorporate recycled glass, rice hull, or recycled porcelain.  The reason we prefer not to use granite countertops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>when green goes bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		
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The most sustainable table setting is the one you can wash and reuse over and over, but whenever you’re planning a get-together that will include a big meal then you’ll probably (and understandably) be tempted to use disposable dishes and utensils.  This weekend I gave into that temptation. In celebration of my birthday this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>prioritize the three r’s</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.michellekaufmann.com/?p=1013#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully, most, if not all, of us know that in order to reduce material waste and help conserve raw materials we ought to follow the three R&#8217;s: reduce, reuse, and recycle.  The overall goal of the three R&#8217;s is to get people to consume and throw away less, but the best known of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>furniture friday: georgie table</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.michellekaufmann.com/?p=1008#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		
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Any piece of furniture that combines eco materials with smart design is bound to win us over, so it&#8217;s not surprising that we love the Georgie Table from 54Dean, available at Branch.  This sleek bamboo table is named for it&#8217;s inspiration - George Nelson&#8217;s famous slat bench - and designed  with interior storage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>furniture friday: earth art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
		
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Linda Fries is truly an environmental artist.  Not only does she use nothing but hand ground natural earth pigments on her canvases, but the themes in her paintings also reflect Fries&#8217; passion for our planet&#8217;s wilderness and the patterns of nature.  Fries has worked outdoors in wild places for years and the experience [...]]]></description>
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