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S T Y L E M A K E R
It’s all about creating new habits. A
sm all change, like rem em bering to
take cloth bags to th e store, w ill
eventually becom e second nature.
For S ara, entertaining
is an opportunity to
educate. “The things in my
house can serve as a learning tool
for a green lifestyle” she says. She
and her husband, Ryan, restored
their 1920s house by scouring
salvage shops to replace missing
tiles, adding denim insulation,
choosing solid-wood products
over manmade, and finding new
uses for ripped-out fixtures.
(The old kitchen cabinets found
second life in the basement.) “We
essentially took a very old home
and recycled it,” Sara says.
Smaller eco-friendly touches
run throughout her home, from
all-natural cotton throw rugs to
the rice-hull vases filled with herbs.
During parties, Sara pulls recycling
bins to the heart of the kitchen,
where guests gather. “It makes it
really easy for guests and easy for
me, since the cleanup and sorting is
already done,” she says. And when
sending home leftovers, she grabs
a casserole dish the guest can
return at her convenience rather
than a plastic container.
“We’ve gotten so used to
disposability and waste,” she says.
“But if we just take a step back and
consider how things used to be
done, we see a really good model
for how we should live today.”
THE NEXT STEP
E c o R e a d
Ease in to g re e n w ith th is ro o m -b y -ro o m to m e .
by-RoO™
Frnn
i'V
EMPHASIZING
THE EASY,
Sara
Snow
’s new
book is filled
w
ith practical ways to go
green. In
Fresh Living:
The Essential Room-by-
Room
Guide to a
Greener, Healthier Fam
ily
and Home
(Bantam
,
2009), Sara turns lessons
from
her own life into
ideas on doing laundry,
decorating, introducing
kids to healthy eating—
even greening the
garage. She walks the
perimeter of the grocery
store, where the most
nutritious foods tend to
be located, and equips an
all-around-the-house
cleaning kit w
ith baking
soda, lemon juice, and
vinegar. A “second-
generation organic” (her
father, Tim
Redmond,
founded the natural
foods company Eden
Foods), Sara also hosts
Discovery Network’s
Living Fresh
and
Get
Fresh w
ith Sara Snow
.
A
il
32 APRIL 2009 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS
