No matter the hue of your home, the shade of your state or the flag of your country, it’s much easier to live green  than it was as few as five years ago.

Flip through any design magazine or catalog. Surf any channel or website or walk through any store or mall and you’ll find heaps of ideas, sources and products that support sustainability.

There’s no excuse now, and it’s clearly not a trend or luxury. It’s a necessity. Okay, so it still may not be affordable for many outside the 90264-6 zip codes (Malibu) to be living in a sea of solar panels off the grid, but we mere mortals have so many conscious choices these days—from flooring to furniture to compact florescents—that  it’s neither a financial nor aesthetic hardship to make the right decisions.

Don’t think many green things are accessible to you? Ask! (or look at the content labels or store tags, or  go to thegreenguide.com). You’d be surprised, because sometimes it’s hard to tell just by ordinary peoplehandling. Many times, you may even buy an item just because you really like it and discover afterwards that it was good for the environment.

Here are just a few little green things I found casually perusing the Chiasso catalog:

Roll-up room dividers made of renewable bamboo (a grass that, unlike trees, grows to up to a mature 100 feet tall in just a few years).

 Doormats made of coir, a fiberous pulp found between the outer shell and husk of a coconut! Coir is naturally durable and water-proof, and you’ll be seeing it more of its biodegradable self in the geotextiles of the future.

  The Bulb solar night light that charges from the sun and artificial light during the day.   

What’s the coolest green thing you’ve seen lately? I wanna know!