Embodied carbon accounts for creating and installing the materials in your home—and could exceed the total carbon footprint of operating your home for decades.
Certifications
From Carbon Neutral to Carbon Positive: How Your Home Can Give Back to the Planet and You!
Carbon positive homes set a new standard by producing more energy on-site than the building requires to operate.
Green Upgrades That Will Maximize Your Home’s Resale Value
Investments in green upgrades not only make your home a wonderful place to live now, but a great value when it comes time to sell.
How to Get the True Value for Your Green Home Upgrades
Do you know how to unlock the true value of your green home upgrades? Green home realtor Christopher Matos-Rogers shows us around the appraisal Green Addendum.
What Does Cradle to Cradle Certified Mean?
Cradle to Cradle Certified is perhaps the world’s most trusted and advanced science-based standard for designing and manufacturing products that maximize health and wellbeing. Assessing products across many sustainability categories, C2C products have immediate and long-term positive impacts on companies and their workers, consumers, and the planet.
Unraveling the Many Fair Trade Certifications
Buying Fair Trade has the power to change lives and lift up communities and the environment. Consumers can expect to pay a premium for Fair Trade brands that pay fair wages, practice sustainability, and invest in communities. So Elemental Green helps you tease out just how green or equitable a product or specific brand actually is.
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