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Eco-Friendly Family Ideas

This bungalow―located in the heart of one of the Greenest cities in the South―may be small, but it’s filled with healthy ideas that anyone anywhere can do.

By Sara Anderson

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A New Use for Paper

In the kitchen and laundry room, they installed gunmetal gray recycled-paper countertops, made of sheets of paper pressed together and bound with (if you can believe this) a resin made using cashew nutshells. The brand is PaperStone, and it's in the price range of natural stones such as granite or nonexotic marble. (For more information visit www.paperstoneproducts.com.)