What is CalGreen, you ask? Well it’s short for “California Green Buildings Standards Code,” a new green building standard. TOTO has multiple products that are CalGreen compliant. Click here to check them out. TOTO states that “For TOTO, a “green” product requires more than just saving water or energy – a sustainable, green product must [...]
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CalGreen…TOTO Style
Posted by salonblueridge on February 17th, 2013
Posted in Plumbing, Sustainability 
Tags: bath fixtures, CalGreen, California Green Building Standards, faucets, Green, plumbing fixtures, sustainable, toilets, Toto 
No Comments »Keep Your Eye on Mint & Gold
Posted by salonblueridge on July 15th, 2012
(shared via Wilkinson Supply Co.) (image via COCOCOZY) Inspired by a post from design blog COCOCOZY entitled Color Watch: Mint + Gold, here is a round of up products available in these cool colors. Viking 36″ Wall Oven Sherle Wagner ‘Ribbon & Reed’ China Basin Indikoi U-style Undermount Sink
Posted in Color Tags: Bath, color, design, gold, Green, Indikoi, Interior Design, Kitchen, mint, Sherle Wagner, trend, Wilkinson Supply Company No Comments »Ilve Ranges Green Story
Posted by salonblueridge on June 5th, 2012
Video about the Italian company ILVE Appliances, in particular their 60″ professional range, and it’s green story.
Posted in Appliances, Sustainability Tags: cooking, cooking appliances, energy efficient, Energy Star, Green, Ilve, Ilve range, Kitchen, kitchen appliances, oven, range, video, YouTube No Comments »Hard-To-Recycle Event in Asheville
Posted by salonblueridge on April 26th, 2012
(shared via Twitter from Montford Neighborhood online) We wanted to share that Asheville Greenworks and Rainbow Recycling are holding a Hard to Recycle event this Saturday, 28 April from 8-1 at Asheville City Market, 161 S Charlotte St. in Asheville, NC – (Public Works Dept.) A partial list of accepted items: Hard plastic, flower pots, books, phone books, Sheet, block, molded packing Styrofoam [...]
Posted in Events, Sustainability Tags: Asheville, Asheville GreenWorks, Green, NC, Rainbow Recycling, recycle, recycling No Comments »Kick Your Bottled Water Habit!
Posted by Maria Aponte on May 27th, 2011
“It takes about 1,100 to 2,000 times as much energy to produce and transport the average bottle of water to Los Angeles as to produce the same amount of tap water. 827,000 to 1.3 million tons of plastic PET water bottles were produced in the U.S. in 2006, requiring the energy equivalent of 50 million [...]
Posted in Kitchen, Sustainability Tags: bottled water, clean water, Environmental Water Systems, filtration, Green, water, water filtration, water quality No Comments »Sustainable Cabinets
Posted by Maria Aponte on April 1st, 2011
We are excited to offer a new cabinet line to our clients, Bellmont Cabinets. Bellmont Cabinets is committed to quality and green practices. They carry the Environmental Stewardship Program seal of certification. This means that these cabinets meet (or exceed) stringent eco-sensitive manufacturing criteria. The areas covered include control of air quality and emission levels, [...]
So Fresh & So Green!
Posted by Maria Aponte on March 11th, 2011
Liebherr is a really cool refrigeration company (ok, cheesy pun). But really, they are! They have very sleek, awesome-looking efficient refrigerators. If you think about it, your refrigerator is probably the only appliance in your home that runs 24/7. Liebherr’s compressor systems are consistent so that they don’t use up power. Liebherr takes efficiency [...]
Posted in Appliances, Kitchen, Sustainability Tags: BioFresh, efficient, Green, Liebherr, refrigeration, refrigerator No Comments »Bathe in Volcanic Luxury!
Posted by Maria Aponte on August 31st, 2010
Last month I learned about Victoria and Albert, a European company with a small office in Mount Pleasant, SC. I thought I’d to share about their bath fixtures. They have some sexy bath tubs, so check out their website and look at the pictures of their beautiful tubs and matching vessel basins. Their tubs are made from 100% of [...]
Posted in Bath, Plumbing, Sustainability Tags: bath tubs, designers, eco-friendly, Green, tubs, Victoria and Albert, volcanic limestone No Comments »Air and Water Do Mix!
Posted by Maria Aponte on August 13th, 2010
If you turn off the water while you brush your teeth, you save water. Taking a shower instead of a bath saves water. Taking a quick shower saves water, but who actually takes a 5 minute shower for the sake of saving water? No one that I know. Let’s face it; going green is a [...]
Posted in Bath, Plumbing, Sustainability Tags: air-injection technology, Green, Hansgrohe, save water, shower, showerhead No Comments »
