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It doesn’t take much to turn a green healthy interior into toxic soup. One or two chemical-laden cleaning products will usually do it, and the majority of stuff readily available at the supermarket is full of questionable substances.
According to statistics provided by Planet Earth:
• 17,000: the number of petrochemicals available for home use, only 30 percent of which have been tested for exposure to human health and the environment.
• 63: the number of synthetic chemical products found in the average American home, translating to roughly 10 gallons of harmful chemicals.
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Last month, I posted about friend and artist Nancy B. Westfall, whose iconic crab paintings have graced the pages of Domino and House Beautiful.
The crab painting above the sink (whimsically placed above a bowl) is by Nancy B. Westfall. Image via House Beautiful, interior design by Ruthie Sommers.Within one day of the post, the majority of the paintings sold to collectors around the world. Nancy has been hard at work creating more paintings, available for a short time through the Quatrefoil Design store, including some of her newest subject – the rock lobster.
Since moving to the center of Tel Aviv this past winter, I’ve experienced how a major city deals with its recyclables and trash collections. I’ve found the system here to be lacking in efficiency, environmental awareness and creativity. So, with my curiosity picqued and the internet beckoning, I got online to see what’s been happening in other cities.Germany comes out smelling like a rose (no pun intended); from everything I’ve read, it’s considered to be the leader in the field. Some sources site that 9 out of 10 households separate their trash. In Berlin there
Global warming and cultivation of the grape vine in England
08 Aug
Posted by John Sleep as Gardening Point
When John Harvey became President of the Garden History Society, in 1984, the great medieval historian suggested bringing back the grape vine as an ornamental plant. He explained that: ‘From very early times until the eighteenth century the vine was one of our chief garden plants, quite apart from attempts to make wine in England or to obtain dessert grapes – though both these enterprises had considerable success. As a climber, against walls or used to cover arbours and tunnels, the vine is outstandingly beautiful and, in several varieties, completely hardy in most of Britain. Thi
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