What Homeowners Need to Know from the UN Climate Report
We can limit climate change to 1.5 ℃! The IPCC calls us to reduce our home’s eco impact, use renewable energy, and deploy energy efficient solutions. Now!
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Teragren Non-Toxic Bamboo Products for Your Home
Teragren bamboo products reduce dependence on dwindling timber resources. They’re sustainably sourced, promote green building, and are LEED compatible.
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A Nationwide Guide to Future-Proofing Your Home
The future may be uncertain, but the value of a home doesn’t have to be. In fact, building, renovation, and design can be done with adaptability in mind. Preparing for changes can lead to even greater lasting quality, renewability, higher resale value, and often, overall savings in price.
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Is That Company Truly Committed to Sustainable Practices?
Are you wondering whether a company that claims sustainable practices lives up to your personal values? Here are a few companies across the spectrum that show how it can be done.
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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.
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I.M. Pei’s Modernist Legacy Lives On In This Eco Renovation
I.M. Pei and Araldo Cossutta’s modernist architecture extended to Hyde Park, Chicago in 1961 with the design of the now-historic University Park Condominium. Elemental Green enlisted local architect Richard Kasemsarn to help give one of the penthouse units a green makeover while staying true to its modernist beginnings.
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French Cabinetry Puts Quality and Green Materials First
Jam Iksoulene founded French Cabinetry to bring European philosophies of quality, craftsmanship and sustainability to the United States. And then he brought Plyboo bamboo cabinets to #EcoRenovate.
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Recolor’s Recycled Paint Gives Unused Paint New Life
Every year, millions of gallons of paint end up going to waste, with much of it ending up in our waterways and landfills. Recolor collects unused paint and remanufactures it as a healthy paint option for any eco-renovation, including our own #EcoRenovate.
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