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9th Annual BIG! Home Tour and Info Fair
Tickets are on sale now for the City of Portland’s 9th Annual Build It Green! Home Tour and Information Fair on Saturday, September 25th!
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This annual event in Portland, Oregon is a fantastic way to learn about the latest, greatest, and most inspirational things happening in green building in the Rose City! This year’s tour features… »
Rosa Parks Elementary Goes Green with Yolo Paint and American Clay!
Congratulations to Rosa Parks Elementary in San Francisco – one of three Grand Prize Winners of the CBS & EcoZone Green My School Contest!
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In total, 45 schools across the nation participated in the contest. Each participating school submitted a short standard submission form and a creative response exploring what being green means to them and why their… »
Ecohaus steers clear of triclosan
From the desk of our product specialist: We have added the chemical triclosan to our “prohibited”… »
Sustainability-Themed Dance in San Francisco
Deborah Slater Dance Theater premieres “Men Think They are Better Than Grass” in San… »
Ecohaus San Francisco!
The Grand Opening Celebration for our new San Francisco store is picking up steam!
Our celebration kicked off last weekend with big events in our store and exhibiting at the Green Festival just two blocks away! The glamorous eco-celebrity and founder of ecofabulous, Zem Joaquin, helped set the tone on Friday night. As she welcomed us to San… »
Add Your Voice! Copenhagen 2010
The UN Climate Change Summit starts next week! Here are two petitions that you can sign to add your voice to the international call for… »
Green Your Halloween!
How can you incorporate sustainability into your life beyond the paint you put on your walls, or the toilet you choose to install? Try greening your holiday celebrations! Corey Colwell Lipson and her mom Lynn Colwell have written a book called Celebrate Green which is an incredible resource for ideas on how to make holidays… »
Save Water: Wash your hands in the Toilet!
Caroma has long been the world’s leader in dual flush toilets, and now they have taken water-savings to a whole new level. By incorporating a hand-washing basin right into the tank of their toilet, Caroma has made it easy for people to conserve even more.
They started with a High-Efficiency Dual Flush Toilet (two flush options:… »
Seattle Loves to Recycle Electronic Waste!
The final numbers are in! It was the hottest day of the year and traffic was at it’s absolute ugliest but that did not dampen people’s passion for sustainable waste solutions!
At our Seattle Waste Alternatives and Electronics Recycling event on July 29th, Seattlites turned in 36,931 pounds of old electronics! That means that nearly 18.5… »
The Color of Hope
We have just learned that the Portland-based paint company, YOLO Colorhouse, is the first to be certified against Green Seal’s updated, more stringent standards.
This is great news, and on Saturday, August 22nd, the ladies from YOLO will be making an appearance at Ecohaus Portland to celebrate! From 10am until 2pm they will be in the… »