SUSTAINABILITY: GREEN CONSTRUCTION VENDORS
Buy green, save green.
There are more money-saving, energy-saving, eco-friendly products being manufactured every day. The ones we’ve featured here are very modern, work great and have earned our seal of approval.
Give us some feedback if you have others you’d like us to check out and add.
FLOORING
Bellawood Bamboo Flooring
Rapidly renewable resource produced in mills that procure lumber from suppliers who practice sustainable forest practices
www.lumberliquidators.com
www.higueraimports.com
TILE
Crossville Geostone Ecocycle Tile
Glazed porcelain, 100% reclaimed, unfired, raw waste material; Crossville uses a dust collection and recycling process to reclaim and reuse most of the unfired raw waste material generated during manufacturing.
www.crossvilleinc.com
CARPETING
Mohawk: Coastal Charm, 100% PET Polyester
Because plastic beverage bottles are made with top quality PET (polyethylene terephthalate) resins they can be sorted, ground into fine chips, and then cleaned. These chips are then melted and extruded into fiber and spun into carpet yarn.
www.mohawkcarpet.com/carpet/pet-story.asp
DESK TOPS
3-Form
This is made up of an eco-resin that has been engineered to incorporate at least 40% post-industrial re-grind content, and is also easily recycled. You can buy this product new or buy from the 3-Form Reclaim program, which is made up of recycled items and incorporates the reuse of materials from previous installations.
www.3-form.com
PAINT
Benjamin Moore Paint: Low V.O.C.
Paint is applied wet and must undergo a drying process, and sometimes a chemical reaction, in order to form a solid paint film on the wall or other surface. It is during this drying or chemical process that VOCs and other paint components are released into the environment. When VOCs off-gas, they may cause a variety of health problems like nausea, dizziness, irritation of the eyes and respiratory tract, and more serious illnesses including heart, lung or kidney damage and even cancer.
www.benjaminmoore.com
LIGHTING
Energy Efficient Lighting using Compact Fluorescent
Fluorescent lamps are about 2 to 4 times as efficient as incandescent lamps at producing light at the wavelengths that are useful to humans. Thus, they run cooler for the same effective light output. The bulbs themselves also last a lot longer - 10,000 to 20,000 hours vs. 1000 hours for a typical incandescent.
www.bulbs.com
www.1000bulbs.com
www.lightbulbsdirect.com
DOORS
Made from Wheatsheet
Wheatsheet is made from recycled wheat straw which is a rapidly renewable resource and reduces demand for tree fiber.
www.ecoproducts.com
www.recyclops.com/wheatsheet.htm
ROOFING
Duro-Last
These
roofs are Energy Star rated. White, reflective roof.
www.duro-last.com
APPLIANCES
Energy Star Appliances
www.energystar.gov
BOILERS
Munchkin
Munchkin boilers are high-efficiency boilers that are 92% efficient and will modulate their firing rate to match the energy needs of a living space. Typical boilers from older, non-renovated, vintage buildings run 50-70% efficiently depending upon how well they have been serviced over their lifetime.
www.htproducts.com
LANDSCAPING
Xeriscape landscaping requires less water and maintenance than typical commercial or residential landscaping.
www.xeriscape.org
WINDOWS
TRACO
Low-E windows reduce solar heat and the cost of energy consumption.
www.traco.com
MORE GREEN BUILDING SITES:
www.epa.gov/greenpower
www.greenproducts.net
www.globalgreen.com
www.greensage.com
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