Sponges aren’t that green. Basically you’ve got three choices:

Typical cheap sponges made with toxic and non-renewable polyurethane. These sponges won’t biodegrade and will last and last in a landfill.
Animal derived sea sponges which some people have an issue with because they are living at one point and some don’t.
Sponges made from wood pulp cellulose. These will biodegrade, and are non-toxic, but some say they encourage logging because they’re made with tree pulp. However, they’re a better choice than polyurethane sponges.

There are better choices:
I used to buy wood cellulose sponges when I did buy a sponge (rarely) and now I haven’t …read more

I’ve mentioned the 100K house here before, but head’s up – the blog is going strong, with all kinds of cool information regarding building thoughts, materials, and costs. Also you can catch all the most current photos, renderings and floorplans of the postgreen 100k house project at flickr. The interior shots are really neat.
If you’re lost read this for a quick run down: Will $100,000 Build A Good Green Home?

 
 
Around the start of the month I posted this; Blue and Green Pittsburgh Home. It was a cool home and a good post except I said this, “In the usually not-so-green nor innovative Pittsburgh…” yup, me just not thinking.
Honestly, I was thinking. I was thinking that many things I read about Pittsburgh report that much of the architecture is stuck in the past; and is not uniquely eco-friendly. However, have I been to Pittsburgh — no. Also, when speaking of the building process my experience is Northwest and Southwest based so that’s me off base as well.
So, I get a …read more

And by cool I mean me. Ok, me and millions of other blog readers around the world. Here’s what’s spiffy and worthy of some love this weekend.
CAKE!
First off my pal Marye at Baking Delights has absolutely nothing related to architecture but she does have something way offbeat; A Car Cake! Not a cake with a little toy car on it, not a car cake the size of a shoe box but an entire life size car cake! It does not even look like cake — I kid you not and it’s a must see.
DUTCH
It’s Dutch week at MoCo …read more