Featured Items  This Copper Cascade Water Fountain truly captures the sun. Four tiers of brushed copper bowls make an appealing visual anywhere you put it. Water gracefully cascades down through the bowl and makes a pleasant sound too.SimplyFountains Put this small but solid Western Red Cedar planter inside or outside for an eye catching bit of decor. Use with a small pot or fill with soil and plant directly.SimplyPlanters Featured Rss Feeds NYT > Home & Garden Updated : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:34:01 GMT Currents | Tools: Count the Reasons to Hug a Tree It?s not a mystery that trees are good for the environment, and the Forest Service?s Center for Urban Forest Research has a software program to compute that benefit. The Tree Carbon Calculator uses data like a tree?s age and location to see how much carbon dioxide it captures from the atmosphere and how much its shade reduces the energy needed for cooling. The program, equipped for California but to be updated nationwide by summer, was created to guide cities, utilities and schools that want to plant trees, said Greg McPherson, the center?s director. But homeowners can use it, too. He entered data about the London plane tree outside his office in Davis, Calif., and learned that each year it captures 113 pounds of carbon and saves his building 162 kilowatt-hours in energy, ?relatively good numbers.? The calculator can be downloaded at www.fs.fed.us/psw. To understand your results, comparative data is at www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications under the first ?Publication List.? STEVEN KURUTZ. Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:24:47 GMT Currents | Walls: From Idle Days, Patterns Emerge The New York decorator Katie Ridder spends Augusts in Mishaum Point, Mass., a seaside town with not a lot of action, she said. So each year she and her children find a project: one summer, they quilted; another, they made shell necklaces. Two years ago, they began to design wallpaper, an ambitious endeavor that stretched beyond the summer vacation. ?It was a very slow process,? Ms. Ridder said, ?because I?m not an artist.? (Some would dispute that: her painterly interiors have an exotic Moorish flavor with many handmade elements, like stenciled walls and block-print fabrics.). Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:24:08 GMT Shopping With Alex Calderwood and Robin Standefer: Beauty in the Everyday Alex Calderwood and Robin Standerfer, the creative minds behind Ace Hotels, bring out the beauty in everyday objects. Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:25:50 GMT Currents | Goods: The Hand Points the Way The furniture maker Thos. Moser has come out with a lounge chair and matching ottoman that are as much sculpture as seating. Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:23:53 GMT Living Together: Beloved Pets Everlasting? Living with the clones of a dead dog has its surprises. The DNA may be the same but the behavior is another story. Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:56:06 GMT Create Blog Add RSS Feeds to My Website