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Bante Design LLC specializes in Integrative Lifestyle Design (ILD): healthy design solutions for the home, office or retail space. Integrative Lifestyle Design is a fusion of Eastern (Feng Shui) and Western (eco-friendly, healthy home) design philosophies while taking into account our client's needs, goals and lifestyle requirements. We take pride in designing spaces that are beautiful, healthy and supportive to all of the space's uses. Bante Design LLC/3E Products brings Integrative Lifestyle Design into our client's spaces through Design, Education and Products. We offer Design hourly consultations or complete remodel/re-design of a space. Education on healthy home design, feng shui and variety of other topics is offered through workshops/seminars for adults, teens, businesses, and our newest addition, healthcare organizations (spas, hospitals, physician offices) and/or client's who suffer from mental/physical ailments that require special care. Our media division, Eden Place Productions, has developed TV shows/segments to promote healthy design, healthy travel and "feel good" TV on people doing good works in the community. Our product line, 3E Products, proud of our eco-friendly cleaners, environment sprays, books and Feng Shui Chocolates. We invite you to visit the specific pages and Portfolio page to see what Bante Design LLC/3E Products can offer you and/or your company. We have nation-wide availability (our clients range from Alaska to Florida) and we are happy to custom any of the workshops to your organization's needs. Recent guests include: Jay Johnson, Design2Share
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Date / Time: 11/29/2009 4:30 PM UTC
Category: Design
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In this episode, find out WHO made the Top 10 Red Hot & GREEN list for 2009 and who to watch in 2010. List will include past guests & vendors found at various trade shows!! Can you guess who made the list?
Upcoming Episodes
12/6/2009 4:30 PM UTC - CasaVerde: The Color Chronicles-Green & Red
12/13/2009 4:30 PM UTC - CasaVerde: Make it a GREEN holiday
12/20/2009 5:30 PM UTC - CasaVerde: Let there be LIGHT!
Date / Time: 6/21/2009 3:30 PM UTC
Category: Health
Eco-Me specializes in 100% natural do-it-yourself kits that are good for you and the environment, too. This informative interview will help de-mystify natural cleaners and the importance of these items in helping to detox your home/office! www.eco-me.com
Date / Time: 11/15/2009 5:22 PM UTC
Original Air Date: 11/15/2009 4:30 PM UTC
Date / Time: 11/8/2009 4:45 PM UTC
GREEN, eco-friendly, organic and sustainability are buzzwords featured in sales pitches and ads. It is also equally apparent that many people selling GREEN or eco-friendly products have no clue as to what constitutes GREEN, eco-friendly, organic and sustainability. (I actually had a “discussion” with a vendor who was advertising their product as “natural fibers” yet they were selling leather. While leather is “natural”-it’s an animal hide- not a fiber-think cotton).
So, in my effort to educate and inform, and to avoid future confrontations (!), here are definitions of some of the big “buzz” words of the GREEN movement:
VEGAN: a product that is not derived from an animal and/or animal by-product. A VEGAN person is someone who eats/wears nothing derived from animals-this includes any dairy, meat, seafood, leather, silk, honey…
Examples of VEGAN product include faux leather, cotton, soy and palm wax candles.
ORGANIC: of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones; "organic eggs"; "organic vegetables"; "organic chicken,” simple and healthful and close to nature; "an organic lifestyle"
CRUELTY-FREE: a product that doesn’t contain any part of an animal, those which contain material obtained from an animal by means of cruelty, and/or anything made with child labor or in a sweatshop anywhere in the world.
Examples include: veal or any other food obtained from animals raised/kept on “factory farms”, or any product made in a third world sweatshop. (Remember the Kathy Lee Gifford controversy about her clothing line made in Central America?).
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE: products made in facilities that practice Fair Trade and are environmentally responsible. Products can also include products made from a labor force that is “disadvantaged” (i.e. women, mentally challenged, war torn areas).
SUSTAINABLE: a product capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect on the environment. This is key in all aspects of the life cycle of any product.
Examples include anything made from bamboo, soy or organic cotton.
LIFE CYCLE: this refers to the notion that a fair, holistic assessment requires the assessment of raw material productions, manufacture, distribution, use and disposal including all intervening transportation steps necessary or caused by the product’s existence. The sum of all those steps, or phases, is the life cycle of the product.
Example of this is the planting of soy beans, the subsequent care and harvesting of the soy, the transportation to the factory for processing, and then the final processing procedure to make the soy beans into whatever the chosen product is and then, how the product is/can be disposed of (or recycled/reused).
CRADLE-TO-GRAVE: this is the FULL life cycle Assessment from manufacture (the cradle) to use phase and disposal phase (grave). This philosophy and focus of manufacturing on the environment has been focused on by designer/author William McDonough-look for his books!
Example of this is a tree helps to produce paper, which is then recycled into low-energy production cellulose (fiberised paper) insulation, then used as an energy-saving device in the ceiling of a home for 40 years, saving 2000x the fossil-fuel energy used in its production. After the 40 years, the cellulose fibers are replaced and the old fibers are disposed of, possibly incinerated.
CRADLE-TO-GATE: this is an assessment of a "partial” product life cycle from manufacture (cradle) to the factory gate (BEFORE it’s transported to the consumer. The use and disposal phase of the product is omitted. CTG assessments are usually the basis for environmental product declarations.
FAIR TRADE: certified company/product the incorporates policies and standards that include a fair, living wage for all factory employees, ample breaks, not obligated to work overtime without compensation and a safe work environment with emergency protocols in place.
Examples of this include factories in many Third World countries.
CRADLE-TO-CRADLE: this is a specific assessment where the end-of-life disposal step for the product is a recycling process. From the recycling process originates a new, identical product or different product.
Examples include glass bottles recycled to make more glass bottles OR old blue jeans recycled into insulation OR plastic milk jugs recycled into carpeting.
GREEN WASHING: this is the dissemination of misleading information by an organization to conceal its abuse of the environment in order to present a positive public image.
***Green washing is running rampant now as everyone is trying to jump on the GREEN bandwagon. Think of my above example of a vendor trying to pass leather off as a “natural fiber.”***
Housekeeping...Remember our year-end special on 11/29 where we name our RED Hot & GREEN people, vendors & products!!! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter @ www.twitter.com/bantedesign AND become a FAN of Bante Design on Facebook @ www.facebook.com/bante-design. AND, to plug another radio show...make sure to listen to our SPECIAL on Feng Shui Fabulous on 11/29 @ 12p cst where we discuus GRATITUDE, ABUNDANCE & Living w/INTENTION. This hour long special will feature guests Esther Hughes & Patricia Sheehy. We will take calls AND give away autographed copies of our books One Day Living by Esther, Dancing Under the Full Moon: 101 Tips for ABUNDANCE by Patricia & Feng Shui for Teens by me!!! Mark your calendars... www.blogtalkradio.com/bante-design-llc Also....our Women Making a Difference will name our Woman of the Year on Monday, 12/14 @ 5:30p cst. Winner will be determined by votes from our listeners! ALL interviews done THROUGH 11/30 (Miriam Kamen) will be eligible!! Votes will be taken from 12/1-12/12. Votes can be emailed to the show by clicking on the "Send the Show a Message" link on show page!! Also include WHY you are choosing this woman so I can read that as well...If you haven't listened yet...Get moving! We've interviewed some amazing woman!! Until next week...dr
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Wow- Tara is a dynamo...besides being a design super-star! Good grief... I LOVE this episode!! Color is my passion, and any time I get to talk color, color theory & color therapy w/another who shares the same passion....YEA! Did you know that color THEORY and THERAPY go back to ancient times? Greeks, Egyptians & Romans used color in their temples, frescos & statuary! Hippocrates also painted PATIENT ROOMS in different colors for different healing-he KNEW color impacted patients on the automatic impulse (i.e. warm colors raise body temp, cool colors lower body temp...YELLOW reduces pain & inflamation, BLUE soothes, reduces blood flow). So Hippocrates is the father of evidence-based design! A lot of this practice was stopped due to the religious beliefs at the time as this was considered "pagan" and went underground! Books recommended by Tara: Color & Light, Edwin Babbit...Color baths & chromo discs to bathe people in light to affect change. Also check out the Value of Light & Color by Dr Kate Baldwin. ****Watch for upcoming color specific shows!!!*** Tara's bio: Tara Rae Hill, ASID, is a state registered, full-scope interior designer. Before founding LittleFISH, Ms. Hill was an Associate + Senior Designer at HOK and the Director of Interiors at Stanley Beaman & Sears. She has implemented award-winning, innovative design and technical solutions for commercial and institutional interiors ranging from 5,000 sq ft to over 1 million sq ft. Her 16 years of experience includes programming, conceptual design, technical documentation, project management, and construction administration. In addition, her design experience includes product + package design, media design and working with specialty design teams such as Graphics, Media and Audio+Visual to provide her Clients a fully integrated experience within any environment. She feels strongly that the success of each project is in the details, i.e. the "soup to nuts." Ms. Hill also has significant experience regarding the science and theory of color as both a design + branding tool as well as a promoter of healing. She has conducted extensive research in evidence-based design regarding color and its profound emotional and physical impact on the human spirit. info@golittlefish.net Here's more on Little Fish Think Tank (COOL name, COOL concept!):
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