Kitchen & Bath Sustainable

• Adelphi Kitchens & Cabinetry has undergone a green makeover; the company has installed a solar roof on its 160,000 square-foot facility. Officials at the company say the effort is part of an overall push for alternative energy solutions at Adelphi.  More after the jump.
• Plumbing Manufacturers Institute announces its focus for its October meeting: Water efficiency and sustainability.
• Cleveland Faucet Group introduces a WaterSense labeled Water Saving showerhead:

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Q: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever heard about that’s been repurposed into an item for the home?

A: Bowling alley countertops.

Q: Really?

A: The dude does, in fact, abide.

Jim Malone fell in love with reclaimed wood from bowling alley lanes and began turning it into practical pieces for the home.  With two style lines and a variety of wood species and finishes, Malone makes tables, countertops and accessories such as wine racks. Check it out here.

 Because Thursday is a mixed bag, isn’t it?  Some product information, company updates and small-living Swedish style, after the jump. (more…)

I’m back from my week-long break and ready to talk tile.  Ready?

Fireclay tile makes a recycled content tile that’s pretty cool.

The company’s Debris series contains 60% recycled content and is available in 112 glaze colors.  According to Fireclay’s website the content is harvested “in the form of curbside waste glass, and we also incorporate local Bay Area waste granite dust and used sandblasting abrasives.”

Check out the website and make sure to click around the galleries to see the neat work that’s already been done with this tile.

Well folks, I’m headed out for a week.  It’s 80+ degrees here in New York and so it would be wrong of me to heat things up with some hot sustainable news, but what the heck, I can’t stop myself.

• Michelle Kaufman’s talking eco-envelopes over on her blog.
• GREENGUARD wants you to Tweet from NeoCon (which is coming up! June 14-16) – if you do, you might win an iPad.
• Kallista introduces “Foundations,” a collection including two new HETs and a very pretty sconce.
• Natural Home Magazine wants you to green the grill.

Have a terrific week!

Habitat for Humanity has built a LEED Platinum prototype–could the charitable organization be making an historic shift toward green?

From GreenSource magazine:

“Among the home’s “ultra-sustainable” attributes are super-insulated exterior walls, a high-efficiency HVAC system, a solar-powered hot water system, low-flow plumbing fixtures, low-VOC paints, carpeting, and adhesives, and kitchen cabinets that were constructed by local high school students using reclaimed materials. Solatube skylights, along with strategically placed windows, bring daylight to the home’s interior, drastically reducing the need for electric lighting during the day. Outdoors, the light-colored concrete roof tiles help reflect the desert heat while harvested rainwater irrigates the fruit trees and vegetable garden that lie amid a landscape of drought-tolerant plants.”

Read the full story at GreenSource’s website here.

This week’s Moen Mondays is focused on Remodeling Lite, the surging trend of making smaller repairs to a space in the interest of home economics.  With spending on everything still low, people are making small change-outs that are making a big difference.  Click here to read more.

• TreeHugger is reporting that Concord, MA plans to become the first town in America to ban bottled water.
• Green Dot 2010 Award-winners announced–check out the Lavabo.  Hey, wait.  Didn’t Caroma introduce a product like that a few years ago?  That I raved about on this very blog?
• Have you been to Sub-Zero/Wolf’s Grow A Green Kitchen website yet?

Working on the June green supplement, so these next two weeks will be light news-wise.  But still Tweeting so come check me out over on Twitter.

Just received this piece of news on Blanco’s Solon in-counter composting system, and just needed to share, because composting is exactly that exciting!

Solon has won an honorable mention in the 2010 KBCULTURE Awards in the storage category.

“With several municipalities, including San Francisco, now requiring to compost organic kitchen waste, the SOLON is a timely - and especially considering its function - an unexpectedly elegant product,” says Leslie Plummer Clagett, founder and judge of KBCULTURE.

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And GREENGUARD (and I) want you to know the facts about indoor air quality.

From GREENGUARD’s Web site: “To learn more about how poor indoor air quality contributes to asthma and negatively affects children’s health, click HERE. To find out how to improve indoor air quality and reduce asthma triggers in your home, click HERE.”

In the May issue of KBDN, I have a story on this very topic!  (Hmm. . .coincidence or serendipity?  You decide!)  Read it here.