Reclaim Your Style With Reclaimed Materials

Is your house in need of renovation, remodeling, and rebirth? Today's show is all about how reclaimed materials can help your home reach it's ultimate style potential. Our guests show us how already used wood, metal, and tile can be reused to be more sleek the second time around.

FEATURED RADIO GUESTS:
Sattie Clark - Co-founder and Principle of Eleek, maker of sustainable hardware, countertops, sinks, tiles, and lighting.

Andrew Dickson - Co-founder, CEO, and Principle Designer for Acronym Designs, maker of modern, sustainable furniture.

Website of the Day:
Goodsearch.com - Yahoo powered search engine which channels money to the charity organization of your choice with the mere click of the mouse.

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Green and Fab: The Power of Prefab

Green affordable design driven homes are here with these great prefab options. Going green for your entire home can be as easy as one purchase with these stylish and exceptional prefab homes.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Rocio Romero - Founder and CEO of Rocio Romero LLC a multidisciplinary firm that designs, manufactures, builds, ships, and sells green kit homes.

Quincy Vale and John Rossi - President and Design Principal of Power POD, a prefab company ideal for industrial, business and personal applications.

Companies, Projects and Products Mentioned on Today's Show:

Website of the Day:

Engadget.com - Coolest and most cutting edge green technology on the market is displayed and discussed on this heavily trafficked website (over 60,000 hits a day).

Product of the Day:

Hybrio - Power your gadgets with these long-lasting rechargeable batteries that eliminate the need to continually purchase and dispose of standard alkaline batteries.

HauteGREEN - An exhibition of the best in sustainable design for the contemporary home, showcasing furniture, lighting, and accessories that are both aesthetically pleasing and eco-friendly.

Green Building: Big Pimpin'

The buzz is all about green building these days and with good reason. Recognition of the impact buildings have on the environment and on our health is proceeding apace with advances in green technologies, materials, expertise, and accessibility to push the green building industry forward. The absolutely easiest and most convenient way to “go green” is to move in to a home or work space that’s already green because the heavy eco lifting is already done for us. This is our future and the future is now.

Bart Bettencourt – Founder & CEO of Bettencourt Green Building Supplies, Executive Producer of Haute Green, Founder & Principle of Bettencourt Woodworking, and Co-Founder of Scrapile.

Lauren Gropper – Sustainable Design Consultant and TV Host of Green Force –

Teaching Sustainable Design: Get Your Green Learn On

It's back to school today on the Lazy E. Not all the way back Billy Madison, but back to college where students are learning cutting edge green-design techniques to help gear up for a better future.

Today's Featured Guest:

Scott Boylston - SCAD professor of graphic design and author/designer of books like "Creative Solutions for Unusual Projects" and others.

Verena Paepcke - SCAD professor of industrial design

Topics Discussed on Today's Show:

Pangea Organics - This awesome skin care uses great sustainable packaging.

Beyond Grey Pinstripes -
spotlights innovative full-time MBA programs that are integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research.

MCAD - Minneapolis College of Art Design has a new program called Sustainable Design Online

Green Buildings From the Outside In

Today's show is about green buildings, both residential and professional. Our guests are from different parts of the country but unified as they LEED the way in green building.

John Krause - Principal Architect at DNA/Day Night After, A Strategic Design and Development company.

Jay Swoboda - Founder of Eco Urban Homes, a St Louis based LEED certified PLATINUM building company.

Global Gaming Expo - There was a big green push at this recent Las Vegas convention, and our guest John Krause spoke at this conference

Studio X - Xavier Llongueras

Mosaic artistry finds the inherent pattern in collective form, creating harmony and balance in the process.

Studio X's design philosophy is founded upon this concept, fusing elements of art and ecology to create an aesthetically beautiful design experience that minimizes its impact on the natural world. Their work embodies this belief through the creation of enduring structures that are at once stylish, comfortable, and livable. At the same time, the Studio places a high emphasis on ecologically-sensitive building design.

Working in Los Angeles since 1989, the studio's founder, Xavier Llongueras, has designed residential and commercial interiors and landscapes for a wide variety of clients. Llongueras and partners draw upon extensive fine arts and design experience which they use to create truly unique and timeless environments.

At all times Studio X takes a holistic design approach, one that works directly alongside clients during the design process.

strata - new eco furniture by ryan frank

Used and exhausted office furniture is given a new lease on life with Ryan Frank’s latest design, an elegant eco-furniture range built from the waste wood of old, battered and abused office desks.

‘Strata’, consisting of a chair, stool, coffee table and dining table, has been commissioned by leading Portuguese furniture developer, IMADETrading, who will be distributing it across the UK and the rest of Europe.

The pieces will make their debut at TentLondon, the design event being staged by the duo of Jimmy Macdonald and Ian Rudge being held at the Truman Brewery and also 100% Design at Earl’s Court during the London Design Week in September.

The Strata range is comprised of a mix of different woods layered together. Salvaged materials make up approximately 60-70 per cent of each product’s composition; the remaining material is FSC plywood, required to provide the structural strength. GreenWorks, a charity and social enterprise, which reclaims timber from redundant office furniture collected around the UK, will supply the material and assist in the production process.

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