The Rocky Mountain Institute is a well-established environmental organization that produces research in several areas. Register to download their Home Energy Briefs which are guides for household energy savings in PDF format.

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Location: Boulder, Colorado; Snowmass Colorado

An interview with IKEA sustainability director Thomas Bergmark.

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Paint specifiers may not look at crustaceans the same way again.  Using a substance found in the shells, researchers at the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at The University of Southern Mississippi were able to create a coating that healed a scratch in its surface.

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A major corporation has taken steps to reveal what is in their cleaning products, SC Johnson.  Maintenance is one of the key components of sustainability as it relates to interior design, so hopefully more companies will begin to address this issue.

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