So far, while furniture also carries significant social and environmental impacts, it hasn’t galvanized the public like fashion. While much more nascent, the sustainable furniture movement is arguably on the cusp of a breakthrough. Let’s learn from the fashion industry’s key issues and solutions to catalyze the movement, and help furniture consumers and manufacturers make better choices.
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Read MoreThere are trees busting through the nature-squelching asphalt of my neighbor's courtyard. When I walk to work, I see one growing right out of a sewer grate where one week prior there wasn’t even the faintest sign of life. They're everywhere in NYC, and seem to come from nowhere. They're all the same type of impossibly tough tree: the Tree of Heaven, a.k.a. ghetto palm, or as botany nerds would tell us, Ailanthus altissima.
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