The Epitome of Green Furniture

The Epitome of Green Furniture

26 October 2009 2 Comments Rhiannon Haller

Not your average lawn furniture.

You know that being ecologically friendly is trendy when thereâ€™s a Facebook application that allows you to track your carbon footprint. Practically every industry is in on being green in some way or another, and environmentally conscious lifestyles are rapidly becoming synonymous with hip. Â Thankfully, for those with a competitive side, Firebox.com offers a product that will allow anyone to top their friends and show off how much they care about Mother Earth: The Terra Grass Armchair.

The Terra Grass Armchair is essentially a grow-your-own-garden-furniture-kit that integrates itself into your existing lawn. As if (literally) being green wasnâ€™t neat enough, it adds a D.I.Y factor – it comes packaged Ikea-style, so you have to assemble it yourself and add soil and water.

Â The result? A lawn full of the most ecologically conscious, and arguably the coolest, furniture ever.

Rhiannon

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kbinder said:

Oh great, does anyone else feel like this is going just a bit too far? Does anyone else realize how ridiculous this would look? I’m assuming that you put this thing down and fill it with dirt and let grass grow over it. So I mean, sure right now it looks cool and everything, but look at it this way: you can’t move your chair, it’s fixed in position, it’s pretty expensive to undo, so it’s more or less permanent, and you can’t sit in it in after its been raining or even if there’s dew on the ground. Just to focus on the whole permanent deal, I mean right now it looks really cool and hip, and besides being green is the new fad, but what happens in a year or two, when the green fad is out and you’re tired of the chair? You’re essentially stuck with the thing, unless your willing to completely redo your lawn… Again… I don’t know, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to tell that this is a fundamentally awful product idea.

# 29 October 2009 at 7:58 am

bcbodnar said:

Hmm – that would be a problem I suppose. But remember that berm at the North side of the Diag? It was completely removed for the ’08 graduation, then replaced. Apparently dirt isn’t as static as we all thought…

# 30 October 2009 at 5:49 pm