Midwest Eco-Design - Your home for eco-friendly construction, remodeling & housing choices including prefrabricated homes, cabins and other sustainable material choices.

You need something that can get messy without messing up the planet.  Recycled glass is a gorgeous, durable, and stainproof option.
Bio-Glass makes solid surfacing for countertops, walls, or anywhere else you want to slap it down.  Want something with a bit more pizzazz?  EnviroGLAS makes recycled terrazzo with glass from discarded bottles, and porcelain from [...]

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Whether you’re trying to cover up your mismatched beer stein collection or you’re showing off your matching china, you’ll need cabinets to hold it all.  Stay away from anything made of pressed sawdust and wood shavings, like medium-density fiberboard (MDF) and particleboard.  They sound eco-friendly because they should be made with by-products from the wood-cutting [...]

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Manufactured housing is projected to achieve above-average growth through 2011, and approach $6.4 million. This is the result of a positive shipments growth after a long period of depressed demand during which easier credit and rising home value made site-built homes relatively more attractive (the wonderful housing boom that has since crashed the US economy. Those [...]

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Green gadgets are becoming increasingly at our attention, but charging our new toys with conventional batteries isn’t keeping it eco-friendly.Fuji has introduced their new EnviroMAX, a new eco-conscious, high performance battery.
Not only do they equal (and often exceed) the performance of equivalent conventional versions, there is nothing inside the battery itself that depletes our earth.
You [...]

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