Creating gorgeous, handmade, home furnishings from salvaged wood – that’s what master woodworker Seth Meyer and acclaimed furniture designer John Wells achieve via their Seattle-based furniture making and design firm, Meyer Wells. The two designer-craftsmen established Meyer Wells to combine a modern design sensibility and high level of furniture craft with an ecological ethic for sourcing salvaged materials.

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• Good news…Monarch Butterfly Migration Rebounding Again – livescience
• Eco-Farming Can Double Food Output in Developing World – enn/reuters
• Hope the kid’s not an albatross…Oldest Wild Bird in US is New Mother – myway
• As our politicians prove everyday – you can demonize almost anything…It’s All in a Name: ‘Global Warming’ vs. ‘Climate Change’ – sciencedaily
• Though economic woes slow investment…Carbon Capture Projects up in 2010, Despite Costs – reuters
• Someone should talk to them…Plants Hoarding Water as CO2 Rises, Study Finds – msnbc
• Sell the beach house…Polar Ice Loss Quickens, Raising Seas – bbc
• Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Fish Surface in Redondo Beach, Calif. – raw story