How to make our interior space healthy and sustainable - Rachel Fowler - BS065
Rachel Fowler is an interior designer who focusses on creating healthy and sustainable spaces. We discuss how to design healthy, what to watch out for and get into the healthy products and finishes you could be choosing in your own project.
Her company website - https://rachelfowlerinteriors.com/
Her book - My happy place - https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/My-Happy-Place-by-Rachel-Fowler-author/9781788602983
Episode Links
- Enki Magazine - https://enkimagazine.com
- Declare - https://declare.living-future.org/
- Cradle to cradle - https://www.c2ccertified.org/get-certified/product-certification
- Blue angel - https://www.blauer-engel.de/en
- GOT certified cotton - https://global-standard.org/
- Healthy Materials Lab New York - https://healthymaterialslab.org/
- Ellen Mccarthur Foundation - https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/
- Red list - Living Building Challenge - https://living-future.org/declare/declare-about/red-list/
- Pinatex (leather alternative) - https://www.ananas-anam.com/
- Biohm insulation - https://www.biohm.co.uk/mycelium
- Mogu flooring mycelium - https://mogu.bio/
- Mushlume mycelium lampshades - https://danielletrofe.com/shop
- Building Biology - https://buildingbiology.com/
- Earth Floors - http://earthfloors.co.uk/
- Natural floors bristol - http://www.naturalbornflooring.com/naturals/
- Edward Bulmers paint - https://www.edwardbulmerpaint.co.uk/
- Earthborn Clay Paint - https://earthbornpaints.co.uk/product/claypaint/
- Graphenstone - https://graphenstone.co.uk/
- AURO wax/oil - https://www.auro.de/en/products/wooden-floors/waxes/
- Orbital Shower - https://orbital-systems.com/
- The Last Straw Journal - https://www.thelaststraw.org/
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