During the summer months, there’s nothing better than sitting out on an Adirondack chair with a glass of wine or a nice frosty beer to take in the sights and sounds of the season. However, since this type of outdoor furniture is typically manufactured from wood, wood and more wood, it may bring a nice summer, cottagey feeling to your home in the city or the county; but it comes at the cost of the environment.

Loll Designs offers a solution with their line of outdoor furniture that is made from 100% post consumer recycled HDPE, a high-density polyethylene which is a plastic resin that is used in products and packaging such as milk jugs, detergent bottles, margarine tubs, and garbage containers. Loll Designs Adirondack chairs come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, and will look fantastic on any deck or front porch of a home or summer cottage. Plus, to get them there, the eco-friendly company uses carbon offset shipping through a partnership with Carbon Fund and packages the sustainable outdoor furniture in completely recycled and recyclable packaging. It doesn’t stop there either, they also produce their furniture locally in the United States, donate 1% of the proceed of their sales to a variety of environmental organizations, and they plant a tree for every harvesting day of the year!

The only drawback of the Loll Designs outdoor furniture is that they aren’t cheap – but look at it this way; by choosing this type of design over the typical wooden Adirondack chairs, you’re making multiple contributions to the environment, and they’re durable enough that they should be kicking around your cottage porch or back deck for years to come!

Whether mattresses are typically made from goose down, or other synthetic foams and materials that take a toll on the environment with the manufacturing process or through the cultivation of the materials themselves; they generally don’t do any favors to the environment.  Of course, everyone wants a comfortable place to lie down at the end of a hard day, so purchasing a mattress should never be taken lightly, and if you don’t want to be kept awake at night as a result of choosing a mattress that’s anti-environmental, you might want to look at an alternative.

The goods news is, there are eco-friendly alternatives out there like the Green Tea Memory Foam Mattress by Keetsa Cloud that are good to the environment, and to your sleep cycle. This eco-friendly mattress has no springs or coils; it’s made from high-density foams made from recycled materials to create this unique 100% memory foam mattress. Green Tea is incorporated into layers of the foam in order to make the mattress long-lasting and odor-free.

Keetsa Cloud offers free shipping on this unique green product to encourage those in the market for a new mattress to make the eco-friendly choice. Between the comfort, and contribution to sustainability that this mattress makes; you really can’t go wrong. So check it out, and if you decide to buy, sleep well at night on your comfortable new mattress knowing that you’ve made the right choice for the environment.

The Cork Media Console is a modern, minimalist design ready to house your flat screen TV and the rest of your home entertainment center. Made of cork which delivers the unique texture and look of the furniture, as well as bamboo plywood, you can focus on your green furniture and stare at it for hours on end while you fall into zombiedom in front of the TV every evening.

While some may hold the misconception that cork is a precious commodity that is on its way to extinction, it’s in fact one of the most sustainable materials that comes directly from nature. Cork can be extracted without killing the entire tree that it comes from, so within a 9 to 10 year period the tree is still trucking with a whole new outer layer grown back. Cork will also last longer than most other materials, so it needs little enhancement beyond the low-VOC water-based topcoat applied by Iannone to outlast your design tastes. Cork is watertight, easily recycled, as well as shock and fire resistant; it’s properties are so sustainable that it might hang around so long that you might just be finding ways to get rid of it!

Get your hands on the Cork Media Console, but now that you know all about the sustainability of cork, take a moment to appreciate all it has to offer next time you uncork your favorite bottle of wine.

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There are two major problems that people encounter when they bring new furniture into their home. Sure it may look nice and really add something to the décor of the home, but it very rarely lasts as long as you might like it to, and even when it does, quite frankly, you might get tired of looking at it.

I do have some minor reservations about Swedish design company, Briklor’s promise to deliver furniture that “has an emotional and technical durability of 300” years. Ok fine, I’m sure the furniture will last, but if I live to be 300 and my furniture’s still around and kicking, I’m probably in desperate need of an overhaul of great interior decorating proportions for the sake of my sanity. That being said, the purpose of the sustainable furniture, isn’t necessarily that it will survive in one household for 300 years, but that it can be recycled and reused in a number of households while still abiding by modern home décor aesthetics so the 20th owner can appreciate the furniture as much as the 1st.

Brikolor also applies concepts to furniture design that aren’t necessarily new; while it can’t always be said about furniture construction today, anyone who collects antiques knows that furniture used to be built to last. Where this innovative company really takes things to the next level, is by offering a written guarantee that it will outlive its first owner by more than one lifetime; surviving for at least 300 years.

More often than not, we see green furniture that gets the sustainable label because the materials used take a minimal toll on environmental resources. Brikolor’s furniture that’s forever is green because it is sustainability defined; it serves a productive (and attractive) function both today and in the future.