The Nest

What's Your Favorite Green Home Item?

Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 5:24 PM

So I swear I don’t have a strange fixation on shower curtains (even though I just wrote about them a few weeks ago), but I was perusing the Pottery Barn catalog (which frustratingly came in the mail even though I’ve tried to opt out of it using Catalog Choice) when these shower curtains caught my eye.  Our guest bathroom could use an update, and the shower curtain we have in there now is getting a little haggard, so I thought that the orange curtain with the Morocco-inspired criss cross print could be the perfect thing. But then I reminded myself that I should buy an organic cotton one instead (since conventional cotton is so horrific for the environment).  Even though I expected to be disappointed, I read all the catalog copy on the shower curtain (there are matching towels too) just on the remote chance that it might be made of organic.  And to my immense shock, it is! I’m so thrilled about this, not just because I can now allow myself to buy the curtain, but because it’s a real leap forward for the eco-living movement that mainstream brands are making a wide range of really attractive items that are earth-friendly.  And in this case the stuff isn’t even being proudly labeled organic as a marketing thing, the organic factor is barely mentioned, meaning that organic cotton is hopefully on its way to being seen as a given.

Do you have any favorite eco-friendly products that you’d never guess are green, or which don’t require any sacrifice at all?  I’d love to hear about more.