Perch a Velorbis Wood Carrier Crate on the front of your bicycle.

Embellish your bicycle with the pragmatic vintage appeal of a Wood Carrier Crate (€60), from Velorbis. Perch this Danish ash wood creation on your cycle and watch heads turn while you pedal unburdened.

And while we’re building wish lists, have you ever seen a ride as beautiful as this Studine Balloon Bicycle (€660)? I didn’t think so. I’ll take one with cream balloon tires please.

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Christiane Lemieux’s new book Undecorate breaks all the rules.

I follow the rules. I don’t park in emergency zones, I wait for my seating section to be called before boarding, and I always sort my recycling. But sometimes I color outside the lines. In fact, I break all social conventions and rules when it comes to design (remember my diatribe against furniture suites and homogeny?), so my heart pitters, patters, and flutters at the notion of Undecorate ($40), by Christiane Lemieux (the founder and creative director of DwellStudio). In this fresh new take on interiors, Lemieux explores spaces that challenge tradition with an eclectic, “love of imperfection and penchant for surprise and unusual juxtapositions.”

Land artist Jim Denevan’s medium is sand.

From a single piece of driftwood, a low tide, endless grains of sand, and inspiration, art is born. Then, just a handful of hours later, the tide rises and the work blurs, finally melting away. Artist Jim Denevan repeats this transient artistry on beaches around the world.

Boxsal cardboard picnic box complete with compostable eating tools.

The Boxsal Today’s Date Box ($25) is an afternoon date of conscious whimsy. The cardboard container is creatively designed to host the perfect picnic ingredients and comes stocked with compostable trays, bowls, cups, and utensils. All this afternoon romance is wrapped up in a cardboard paint-by-numbers canvas to cap your edible date with artistic sparks.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) explained.

Let’s talk quantity. Last week we covered the basic qualities of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), so diving into the quantifiable details and juicy substance behind the LEED Rating Systems that has sculpted the sustainable building industry is only natural.

LEED dictates an assembly of seven focus topics – sustainable site development, water savings, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor environmental air quality, innovation in design, and regional priority. The LEED curriculum is distributed throughout the entire building lifecycle, from …

“Delight becomes pictorial
When viewed through pain.”

Emily Dickinson (Excerpt from Delight Becomes Pictorial)

Image: Graphics Pixie

Editor’s note: Look for “visual poetry” in the mix here at EcoSalon every Saturday.

Organic cotton blocked paisley duvet cover.

This Blocked Paisley Duvet Cover ($89) isn’t simply bedding, it’s a place to nestle your dreams. The pretty weave of 100% organic cotton is a repetitive graphic wonder.

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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) explained.

LEED is an acronym that has taken hold of the sustainable building movement and become integrated in many industries beyond. If you have any interest in green building, you have stumbled across the ubiquitous acronym a handful of times – enough to know it’s inherently good. But what, exactly, does it mean?

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the certification and rating system designed to encourage, standardize, and award sustainable building efforts. The United States Green Building Council …