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DOUBLE AGENT
With a touch, the Yves Béhar for Herman Miller Leaf Lamp goes from a “paying bills” high beam to a “dinner for two” glow. The lamp’s compact LEDs consume just nine watts of power and have a 60,000-hour life span—and there’s no melted wax to scrape off your dinner table. $499; available at Design Within Reach, 455 Jackson St., 415-837-3940, dwr.com |
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RAISON D ’ETRA
The Etra sofa by Modern Outdoor, available through Mill Valley–based 2modern.com, is to deck furniture what a local organic apple is to Froot Loops: tasteful and guilt-free. It’s a stretch, but the hours you’ll clock relaxing on this lounge—with a frame crafted from ipe, a sustainable Brazilian hardwood—can be considered doing your part. $2,999–$4,399; 2modern.com
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BURNING RUBBER
The Container Store helps tread-bare tires and wayward bathtub duckies escape landfill purgatory. Its new recycled-rubber Geometric Message Boards free up space in garbage dumps and—what’s more—give poor old cork an inferiority complex with their lively green-and-blue patterns. $20 each; 26 Fourth St., 415-777-9755, containerstore.com
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CARTON NETWORK Oakland’s Josh Jakus has taken orphaned wool-felt scraps that would have otherwise met their demise at the bottom of a Dumpster and turned them into the Eggflat, which lovingly cradles fruit as well as eggs. It does not, however, save either from their roles in tomorrow’s breakfast. $54; available at branchhome.com
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PLANT IT EARTH
You might think you know the sorghum plant, but you have no idea. Not only is it one of the top five cereal crops in the world (you know, wheat, corn … sorghum), its stalks can be converted into Kirei, a strong panel board used in furniture. This Kirei end table by Anthony Brozna is available locally at Aldea. $1,200; 3338 17th St., 415-865-9807, aldeahome.com |
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MORNING AFTER Here’s a sobering thought: It takes more than a million years for glass to decompose. But eating off these recycled-glass Plates with Purpose from the de Young Museum store puts you on the path to repentance. No hangover pill needed. $40–$98; 415-750-3642, thinker.org
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CLEAN LIVING
With all of the green features of the new Arterra condominiums at Mission Bay—living roofs, sustainable-wood floors and cork walls, to name a few—the community of 269 units (opening in early 2008) will have an environmental footprint practically the size of a postage stamp. Not really, but you get the idea. arterrasf.com |
GRASS ROOTS Pandas love it. So do lemurs in Madagascar. Room & Board’s Rook end table is made of bamboo, a renewable grass that’s stronger than steel. Plus—deep breath—one stand of bamboo releases 35 percent more oxygen than a similarly sized grove of trees. $549; 685 Seventh St., 415-252-9280, roomandboard.com
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BOOK IT
Your excuses can be recycled along with your No. 2 plastics. Josh Dorfman’s soon-to-be-released book, The Lazy Environmentalist (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) gives eco-tips to the well-intentioned nationwide, while the SF version of L.A’s Greenopia Guide—out April 19—steers locals in the right direction. lazyenvironmentalist.com, greenopia.com |
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BIBLIO FILE The fact that the Legend bookcase, designed by Christophe Delcourt, is made from sustainably forested Burgundy oak trees is just enough to offset the resources consumed in transporting it from France to the local Roche Bobois showroom, but hey, at least you’re not in the red—until you write the check to pay for it. $11,575; 701 Eighth St., 415-626-8613, rochebobois.com.
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PLAYING FOOTSIE
Help reduce the 1.8 million tons of rugs and carpeting that clog up landfills each year by treading lightly via the Weave rug by Peace Industry. Since it’s made from 100 percent lamb’s wool and all-natural dyes, it’s completely biodegradable. That feels better than a pedicure. $1,960; 535 Octavia Blvd., 415-255-9940, peaceindustry.com |
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BEACHY KEEN The Bonaire chaise from Smith & Hawken deserves a spot in your cabana—not because its all-weather wicker frame is 100 percent recyclable (which it is), but because when you loll on it, scenes from The Flamingo Kid dance in your head. And yes, Matt Dillon is waiting on you hand and foot. $1,299; 800 Redwood Hwy., Mill Valley, 415-381-1800, smithandhawken.com
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