Harmony baby cribs

We're working on new photos for the harmony style baby cribs, trying to show more clearly how the piece converts from a crib into a kid's bed. This design has arts and crafts, as well as asian design elements.


















We're also using it for bedroom furniture design for harmony beds, nightstands and dressers. My own bed and nightstand were created in this design, it doesn't require a box spring due to the large number of slats in the bed frame.

The mattress I had crafted is wool, with cotton fabric on the exterior. Wool doesn't require any flame retardants to be added, as it is naturally fire-proof. These flame retardants are toxic and really shouldn't be present in anyone's bedroom.

Articles 4/10/08

"There are three objectives of the BLUE movement. First, to measurably improve the quality of life of the people who join. Second, to engage as many people as possible in the effort. And third, to increase their effectiveness in making a difference in their community and the world ... There's a gap between the challenges facing our world and the actions people are willing to take in their own lives." Source

"Andy Netzel drives an average of 2,000 miles a month despite living only a mile and a half from work. He's addicted to his car, but agreed to part with his keys for a month to see if he could make it without his Toyota Yaris ... My car has kept me so detached from the world around me. What I thought was giving me freedom was really giving me an excuse to ignore my surroundings."
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"There are 40 cases of cancer among people who work in the same building at NASA Glenn Research Center ... The union that represents hundreds of scientists and other workers said nearly half of the 100 employees on the third floor of the building have been diagnosed with various forms of cancer in the past three to four years ... the head of safety at NASA Glenn said an employee survey shows cancer rates among workers are within the normal range ..." Source

"Al Gore ... presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right." Source

"As I traveled through India on a recent business trip, the topic of energy was constantly on my mind (as it is every time I travel). I found out some interesting things about jatropha, toured a sugarcane ethanol plant, found a wind farm in the middle of nowhere, and encountered a native ethanol skeptic." Source

"[T]ruck drivers began taking the strongest form of action they can take: inaction. Faced with $4-per-gallon diesel fuel, they slowed down, shut down and started honking ... Dan Little tells me, "My granddad said, and he was the smartest man I ever knew, 'If you don't stand up for yourself, ain't nobody gonna stand up for you.'" Source

Global warming health implications: "Major cities such as New York and Chicago could see temperatures that would mean more heat stress and heatstroke ... Heavy rainfall may lead to flooding and overflow of sewage systems, causing an increase in the spread of disease ... Higher temperatures and decreased rain are likely to strain already limited water sources, increasing the likelihood of wildfires and air pollution ... Hurricanes and other weather events are expected to last longer and be more intense." Source

"The victory gardens and ingenious substitutions that kept the home front functioning during the Second World War are another potential source of ideas and inspiration well worth a sustained look. Still, the experiences of the Seventies offer a particularly rich resource in this regard. Close enough to the present to be part of living memory for many people, and faced with the same basic challenge of too little energy, too few resources, and too much economic instability for an overheated and overextended industrial world, it parallels our present predicament too closely to be neglected." Source

Articles 4/8/08

"Artificial colourings could be removed from hundreds of food products after researchers found that they may be almost as harmful to children's development as leaded petrol." Source

"In Haiti, four people were killed in protests last week over a 50 percent rise in the cost of food staples in the past year. From Egypt to Vietnam, price rises of 40 percent or more for rice, wheat, and corn are stirring unrest and forcing governments to take drastic steps, such as blocking grain exports and arresting farmers who hoard surpluses ... The World Bank says 33 countries face unrest from higher prices in both food and energy." Source

"While geologists have known that Greenland had crude reserves since oil was discovered seeping out of rocks along the coast in the 1990s, the ice surrounding much of the world's largest island made getting to it unfeasible ... If the ice in west Greenland continues to melt as dramatically as it has been doing in the past few years, then the cost of producing a barrel of oil will be closer to $20 than $50" Source

"Black carbon, the stuff that gives soot its dirty color, could be the second most important contributor to climate change ... Black carbon can mix with other aerosols to form what are called atmospheric brown clouds, which have been observed in regional hotspots over China, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and parts of Central and South America. These brown clouds absorb incoming solar radiation and prevent it from reaching the surface, warming the atmosphere in the process." Source

"About 700 sheep have now been employed by Turin officials to keep the grass verges and lawns in city parks neatly trimmed. Environment officials in Turin said they were paying 30,000 euros in gardeners’ fees to cut the grass in just one of the bigger parks." Source

"Airborne formaldehyde in the travel trailer was seven times the amount considered acceptable by scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency ... Travel trailers and RVs are not regulated by anyone." Source