And the winners are...................

We've had a really fun couple of weeks with our first giveaway and received a lot of entries. In addition to all the entries, the contest generated some really good ideas on how to make your household more eco-friendly. Thanks to everybody that participated!

Without further delay, the winners are:

Pottery Bowl - Keckie83
Wine Angle - Rachel Ann
Wine Angle - Windy Cindy

Congrats to the winners! We will be contacting you to get shipping details. Keep checking back for future giveaways and thanks again.

Only FIVE days left in our eco-friendly giveaway!

We've had a great response to our giveaway and there are only five days left to enter. The drawing will be on Halloween night, October 31 at 10:00pm EST. So far, we've had more than 130 total entries and some really great ideas for making households more eco-friendly.

Get your entries in by Friday for a chance to win the serving bowl or one of the wine angles!

Enter our Eco-Friendly GIVEAWAY for a chance to win some great prizes!

Here is your chance to win some cool home furnishing items. Terra Furnishings is giving away the following items from our website collection:

• First prize (1 winner) - Handmade pottery Serving Bowl
• Second prizes (2 winners) - Wine Angle

The lovely serving bowl is from our newly released line of pottery made by Mike Kuhn at Barefoot Pottery. The Wine Angle is a creative design from Mark Elliot at Elliot Woodworking and has been recently featured on Green Your Decor and Shak In Style.

To enter, post a comment in this blog thread telling us about something you've purchased or done in the last six months to make your household more eco-friendly. You can receive extra entries for any of the following for a maximum total of five entries per person:

• Blog about this contest or our website, http://www.terrafurnishings.com/
• Make our blog a favorite on Technorati
• Become a "follower" of our blog
• Add our logo button or link to your sidebar

Please leave your email address in your comment or have it public on your blog so that we can contact you. Entries with no contact information will be disqualified. Limited to one prize per person. Can only ship to U.S. addresses.

The drawing will be held at 10 pm EST on Halloween night, October 31st and the winners will be announced here. The winners will be chosen by Random.org.

Good luck from Terra Furnishings!

Introducing our new eco-friendly line of pottery....

Terra Furnishings is happy to announce that we have launched an exclusive line of handmade, eco-friendly pottery. These beautiful pieces are the work of Mike Kuhn from Barefoot Pottery in Livonia, Michigan. We will have more info about Mike in the near future including videos of him in action!

Terra Furnishings Press Release:

http://www.prlog.org/10139878-terra-furnishings-announces-the-launch-of-wwwterrafurnishingscom.html

Auto racing challenges manufacturers to go green...

The "green" movement in motorsports gains significant momentum this weekend at Road Atlanta as one of endurance racing's crown jewels, Petit Le Mans kicks off for the 11th time. This race will be the first to use the Green Racing Protocols as developed by SAE International, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS).

This "race within a race" will be contested as part of the 10-hour, 1000 mile event on October 4th. A special trophy will be given to the manufacturer that, based on specified criteria, best represents sustainability. The factors that will be used to deterimine the winner of the Green Challenge include:

• Weight
• Vehicle speed
• Distance travelled
• Exhaust emissions
• Environmental footprint of fuel used

One of the favorites in the Green Challenge is Corvette Racing (above). The team switched to e85 cellulosic ethanol at the beginning of this season. Cellulosic ethanol and grain-based ethanol produce the same end product from different feedstocks. Conventional ethanol is derived from grains such as corn, wheat or soybeans. There are many questions regarding the impact of conventional ethanol production on the food chain. By contrast, cellulosic ethanol is produced from a variety of biomass including agricultural plant wastes, sawdust and paper pulp.

Doug Fehan, Corvette Racing's Program Manager discussed the Green Challenge on SPEED TV's Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain last night (below). The Petit Le Mans race will be shown live on SPEED TV.

What is a sustainable forest?

Many people and companies claim that their wood products are sustainable, but what does that really mean? There is a plethora of information and misinformation regarding forest sustainability.

The generally accepted definition of a sustainable forest, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) goes something like this:

• the stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in a way, and at a rate, that maintains their biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capacity, vitality and their potential to fulfill, now and in the future, relevant ecological, economic and social functions, at local, national, and global levels, and that does not cause damage to other ecosystems.

There are more than 50 organizations worldwide that certify that these forest management practices are met. Some of the more common certification standards include:

• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
• Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
• Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC)

The twist stools, end tables, wall panels and accessories sold by Terra Furnishings are hand carved in Thailand and are certified by the Royal Forestry Department. Thailand has promoted sustainable wood growth and harvesting practices dating back to the 1950s. Their guidelines insure that land is reclaimed for reforestation and controlled harvesting while allowing the country's active woodcarving industry to thrive.