Fernwalla Ever-Cycle program
By fern | July 22, 2008
Ever-Cycle is here! A way to ensure that your furniture will never have to be considered unwanted or an environmental concern.
Born from other cradle-to-cradle concepts, Ever-Cycle is designed for those who may want to upgrade, renew or restyle their furniture pieces in the future and not worry about what to do with their existing furniture.
How it works
In the event that our customers want to change their existing interior, upgrade to a new look or the piece has reached its usable life, Fernwalla will offer to buy back or give credit towards new peices. Simply call or email us and we’ll get the history of your peice(s) and their condition and then make our offer to you.
We will arrange shipping if necessary, you just make it ready for us.
Details
To qualify, the piece(s) must be at least 3 years old and originally purchased new from Fernwalla.
We will take into account the age, condition and usage when we make our offer to you. The offer is not binding or a legal contract.
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Encouraging news in Bolivia
By fern | June 6, 2008
Here’s a report about a cross-governmental program called REDD that is actually working. There are issues, naturally, but this process of becoming conscious and changing our habits/viewpoints is going to be tough as we know.
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High praise for the Slingback from Design-Milk
By fern | May 1, 2008
The fabulous art and design blog (with significant green-leanings) Design-Milk featured the slingback chair recently. Go there and add them to your RSS, you won’t be disappointed.
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Nutrition labels for your house?
By fern | April 25, 2008
Someone mentioned to me a while ago that if there was a requirement to have a readout on the back of our vehicles displaying the mileage you were getting at any time, people would change their habits quick!
This is along those same lines. Knowledge is power, to change.
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Lapis table is green obsession
By fern | April 21, 2008
Jen at the great little (but growing) blog Slices of Green really likes our Lapis table. Thanks for the kind words, we’re proud of the piece ourselves. Likewise on your blog and taste.
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Fernwalla on GreenDesignGirl
By fern | April 21, 2008
Fernwalla’s products are getting rave reviews from Mariela on Green Design Girl. Thank you for the positive feedback, we’re blushing.
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Great green window design and Earth Day activity
By fern | April 17, 2008
We need more ideas like this for home and office.
iconoclastic green architect Michelle Kaufmann merges design and reuse. and it’s beautiful.
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Deforestation in SE Asia caused by logging
By fern | March 31, 2008
I’ve been trying to find some good news to post, but alas have not run across anything worthy.Here is a good article on the major causes of destruction of tropical forests in Asia. excerpt: according to the UN’s Economics and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP), “Logging is undoubtedly the primary cause of degradation and indirectly of deforestation too (Sponsel et al., 1996).” Logging for export is a major factor of deforestation in Southeast Asia and it has been playing a significant role in Southeast Asian nations economic development. Read More
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Measuring a forest ‘breath’
By fern | March 2, 2008
A local scientific study of a pine forest’s carbon ‘respiration’. A small part of the concept that our planet is a living-breathing organism in the bigger universal sense. from chiefengineer.org
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Contradictory goals in Bali sounds familiar
By fern | February 1, 2008
It seems as though there are other countries whose politics and business goals seem to be at loggerheads with one another. In the downhill run to catch up with the runaway train of traditional capitalism, our human-centered political rickshaws have got to stop stumbling. Here’s a very thorough treatise on some of the issues that polarize. http://www.redpepper.org.uk/article1008.html
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