Today’s Kitchens: Watching Their Weight?

With 7.6 million kitchen remodels in 2007, up 200,000 from 2006, today’s homeowners continue to deem kitchen remodels a valuable investment. But do extensive makeovers remain a priority? With the current housing slump, are today’s kitchens really...

Bottled Water Woes May be Home Water Systems Boom

Are you a bottled water fanatic? Or do you take a more environmental position on the bottled water uproar? Aquafina admitted that its water comes from – you guessed it, the tap – and the water from other bottled water brands may derive from similar...

Resurrecting “Green” Marketing

Today’s consumers are constantly being inundated with news-related information about the environment and how to live a healthier, more fulfilled lifestyle. It seems that everywhere you look, more and more consumer products are being labeled eco-friendly and...

Biofilia and You: What You Should Know

What sounds like a communicable disease just might help to drive the green building and quality-verses-quantity home building trends. “Biofilia” refers to why human beings function positively in environments we deem “comfortable” due to our...