Eco Life Consulting Green Gift Recommendations

• Energy Hogs?

  Green Gift: Kill A Watt $45.00
  What It Does: Simply connect your appliances to the Kill A Watt™, and it will assess how efficient they really are. Large LCD display will count consumption by the Killowatt-hour, same as your local utility. This device will help you to evaluate if its time to get a new appliance be it a refrigerator, gaming console to a microwave you will be able to see what is draining your finances by being plugged in.

  Green Gift: Smart Strip Power Strip $31.95 to $41.95
  What It Does: Ten outlets work together, autoswitching your devices on/off automatically, to save you money on your electric bills. 2225 joules of surge protection keep your equipment safe from even the harshest power spikes.

  Grid Independent Gifts - FreePlayEnergy
  What It Does: Award winning self-sufficient products harness human, solar, and rechargeable energy to power durable portable devices, from radios to lanterns to mobile phone chargers.
  
  

• Reclaimed Treasures The Green Reuse & Recycle Gift

  
  Green Gift: Trade, give or sell the below is a green eco friendly way to find that gift or raise funds for your green gift budget.

  Cell Phones
  ReCellular - Flipswap Ever switch cell phone plans and the phone cant transfer to your new network, now you can shop for that saught after cell phone from plan switchers who can no longer use that phone.

  Reclaimed & Reuse - Misc. Items To Be Re-loved
  Its Free at Freecycle. look for items that others either no longer have use for and are giving it away. It is organized by location and everything is free.

  Of course you can also look on Craigslist a basically huge online garage sale of items.

• Big Readers

  E-books are a fantastic eco friendly gift for the avid reader and cut down on paper and energy and materials used to produce traditional books.
  Amazon Has a good selection of ebooks as well as the hot in demand Kindle E book reader $359.00 a little pricey but green. As over the life of this device savings realized from the lower cost of books, papers and time and energy to acquire the materials will save the avid reader as all they have to do is turn the device on select the materials they want and wa la its auto downloaded right into the device.
  Itunes - has a huge selection of lectures, videos, books, music and more.

• Other Green Gift List Sources

  Tree Hugger Green Gift Guide - Nicely organized there is a green gift for every personality from fashion to outdoor lovers to charity and animals this directory is comprensive with over 180+ gift ideas
  Co-op America Green Gift Catalog Green Gift Guide features special offers from businesses listed in the National Green Pages™. So this year, show you care by giving gifts from businesses that support people and the planet. Also features fair trade gifts as well.
  NRDC Green Living Gift Guide - As one of nation’s most effective environmental groups, it turns out that thelawyers, scientists and policy experts are also pretty good at recommending gifts too.
  The Daily Green - The Daily Green’s gift guide features the season’s best sustainable and nontoxic gifts — safe toys, stylish gifts for the home, chic choices for fashionistas, gear for outdoors lovers…even treats for pets!
  The Tree House - Site that offers recycled, organic and handmade gifts Lots of reasonably priced items from personal care to home accessories.

• Fair Trade fair trade

  eco green gifts that honer the environment and the people who make them. (Fair trade means that the businesses that manufacture them provide a fair wage, work environment in areas that typically don’t provide such standards)

  Look for fair trade certified products list of certified fair trade products

  Holidays birthdays or year round gifting green, fair trade made is a conscious choice. Be it the impact on the environment or humans by choosing green you are investing in a better future for the environment and the people who live in it.

Green Homes Red Hot on Market
In Tough Housing Market Green May Sell

By Greg Bledsoe

Updated 8:10 AM PST, Fri, Nov 21, 2008

This home for sale in Encinitas is green in more ways than one.

“It’s a very hard time to try and sell a house right now,” says Susie Brillault-Bergen. And she would know. Her family is trying to sell the Encinitas house they moved into just a couple years ago.

Susie’s home, however, does have a few things her competition might not.

“In comparison to everyone else I talk to, our energy bills are really low,” she says.

The reason is because there’s a list of about twenty eco-friendly features to the house including a tank-less water heater, low flow toilets, and energy saving lighting. The porch is made out of recycled trash bags. Hardwood floors and eco-friendly paint emit almost no toxins inside the home. In color and concept, this house is green.

“There is a lot of desire for homes that have green elements to them or create healthier living environments,” says Jim Simcoe, a certified Eco-Broker and green consultant. He’s also selling that home in Encinitas.

Simcoe says the estimated energy saving alone is a selling point buyers are after.

“I think it’s a win win because, not only are you going to save a certain amount, anywhere from 40% to 60% on the cost of operating the home, but you’re creating a healthier living environment for you.”

In October, the median home price in San Diego County fell again to $323,500. That’s down almost 30% from the same time last year. While home sales are actually up, it’s misleading. More than half of resales came from foreclosure properties not individuals.

Despite the overall numbers, Simcoe says he sees a real demand for houses with green technologies, but hardly any of them on the market. He says if someone is looking to sell, this is a way to set themselves apart.

He says, “My hope is, in the future, this will not be an uncommon house, and that everyone will have an opportunity to live in a house like this.”

I found the homes to be surprisingly comfortable and modern on the inside. I was expecting them to be more confined and damp. Quite the opposite-they were sunny, warm and beautiful throughout.

The most impressive thing to me was in the design of the homes. It was clear that the designer used every natural resource possible for the benefit of the home. For example, some aspects of water were used 4 times. Rain water was filtered and used in sinks, then re-filtered and used to in a washing machine, then refilter again and used to irrigate the organic vegetable garden. Very intelligent use of resources.

While I don’t know if I could live in Taos in an Earthship, visiting definitely gave me great insight into how far you can stretch the natural resources around you. It reinforced the concept of creating a true green plan and executing it accordingly. Great experience.

In simple language the opportunities, and green market is actually being spurred and the cause for green and sustainable lives bringing new jobs to the market and the “bail out” actually included earmarks for green energy, fuel and more.

Green jobs just like reclaimed building materials are easily transitioned into by “layed off” workers
Examples cited: boat & auto workers in the manufacturing of turbines, solar pannels or Electricians for hooking up the solar panels down to the oil plant worker moving to bio fuels and alternate energy production . Can you see the opportunities that are arising within the development, support and implementation of green services.

Pot-Sweeteners to the bailout result in Energy Improvement And Extension Act of 2008.

• Qualified green building and sustainable design projects
• Accelerated recovery period for depreciation of smart meters and smart grid systems.
• New energy efficient home credit.
• Energy efficient commercial buildings deduction
• Carbon audit of the tax code.
• See the complete story at Green energy news

Use less water.

One of the single biggest sustainability issues we face is the way we waste/overuse and discard water. Our water is a finite resource and treating it as such will go a long way towards leading an easy green life.

Buy less plastic.

When you shop, don’t take the plastic bags they offer you. That stuff will sit in a landfill for 1000 years. Try to reduce the overall use of plastic in your life. Replace plastic cups and food containers with metal and glass.

Conserve.

Conserve energy where you can. Put all of your major appliances (TV/Stereo/Computers) on ’smart’ power strips. These strips will not siphon electricity like most power strips. Replace light bulbs with CFL light bulbs or LED lights.

Recycle, compost, repeat.

If it can be recycled, do it. Don’t throw away food scaps-get a compost bin and use it to fertilize your garden/lawn.

These are just a few quick ideas. For more, give me a call or email.

]]> http://ecolifeconsulting.com/simple-green-tips.html/feed http://ecolifeconsulting.com/sustainable-home-development.html http://ecolifeconsulting.com/sustainable-home-development.html#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:51:11 +0000 admin http://ecolifeconsulting.com/?p=37 Put simply-if going green isn’t profitable why would developers do it? The easy answer is they wouldn’t. One of the biggest fundamental flaws in the green building discussion is that green building costs more and is less profitable. Our goal is to help you design projects that are profitable AND green. Yes, you can be profitable and green at the same time, they are not mutually exclusive.

With that said, one question still mystifies developers- what exactly is sustainable planning and development? What does sustainable development mean? Why are we worried about issues like climate change, environment pollution and energy shortage? Why is everybody talking about sustainable development? Is sustainable development advice just the latest buzzword being thrown around? Is it simply fashionable to claim being eco-savvy and plant trees and switch to CFL bulbs to show proof?

Al Gore, says, “There is a growing feeling that we are reaching the limits of the Earth’s ability to sustain our civilization.” That is the popular view and the answer to all these questions is an obvious ‘no’. The earth’s climate is being negatively affected and speeding economic development is undoubtedly leaving little for our future generations. The threat to our environment is real, clear and nearly here. How can we minimize the damage? Leave a healthier earth for our future generations? The answer lies in sustainable planning and development.

So what does sustainable development mean?

How do we define it? The US Department of Energy defines sustainable development as - “Sustainable development is a strategy by which communities seek economic development approaches that also benefit the local environment and quality of life.“

Christine Ervin, Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy defines sustainable development as, “Sustainable development allows economic progress and environmental quality to be compatible goals. Communities are finding that sustainable development strategies save taxpayer money, improve the profits of local businesses, and make the community more livable.

Thomas Jefferson-Tree Hugger?

When Thomas Jefferson in 1879 made the following statement, he may not have been talking about sustainable development, as the term is used today, but there was a definite vision of what the future could look like if mankind refused to be prudent with nature’s gifts, “Then I say the earth belongs to each…generation during its due course, fully and in its own right, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence“

Robert Gilaman, President of Context Institute defines sustainability as “Sustainability refers to the ability of a society, ecosystem, or any such ongoing system to continue functioning into the indefinite future without being forced into decline through exhaustion…of key resources”.

The answer must begin at the ‘micro level’, with us, who use the spoils of nature to progressively urbanize. The solution to the problem must start with the way we ‘build’, ‘create’ and ‘remodel’ our towns, cities and homes. Green development initiatives are the first level solutions for sustainable development.

Solutions for sustainable development are required and they need to be all-pervading, long term policies participated in by governments, societies and people. But before we begin talking about the benefits of sustainable development, let us look further at, “How do we define sustainable development?”

Definitions are many but the most widely accepted definition of sustainable development is “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs”.

On a lighter, anonymous note, sustainable development is “Growth without cheating our children”

Individual Sustainability

The sustainable development definition may differ across geographies, cultures and countries. At the end of the day, however, it is a process that requires global participation at the individual level. Individual contribution is important because it forms the basis of the ‘Three pillars of sustainable development’ - Economic, Environmental and Social.

The ‘social’ pillar of people interacts with the other two - environmental and economic and in that sense drives the concept of sustainable development.

Since we use the environment for social and economic purposes it’s us who need to decide if the current trade off between ‘environment’ and ‘economic’ is beneficial to us in the long run. We can continue using wood for building our houses and destroy all our forests or decide on healthier alternatives that help the economy grow and keep our planet safe and secure for our future generations to be able to build their houses. In this sense ‘people’ form the pivotal point in the whole picture. Therefore, by definition, you and I, the individual home - owner, builder or real estate developer are part of the basic principles of sustainable development - people, planet, profits.

So what steps can you as a builder or homeowner take for ensuring sustainable real estate development? You can do a lot. Changing a bulb to CFL may not be the complete solution but it is a definite first step towards it. As a homeowner you can search for topics on sustainable development online and examine the different choices you can make for a greener home. Informative sustainable development articles abound on the web and there is a lot you can learn about making ecologically healthier choices for that new house you plan to build or for that re-modeling job you have in mind on your vacation home.

Developers Profit From Sustainability

However, a bigger responsibility lies on the shoulders of the real-estate developers’ community because if we build it ‘green’ from scratch we make a stronger impact. Contrary to popular belief, the role of private sector developers, in sustainable real estate development, is key and much more profitable. Building ‘green’ makes sense and is profitable. Plus, sustainable real estate development has the thumbs up from the government - “In the not too distant future, all development will be green. Developers, builders and buyers will discover that green not only enhances their pocketbooks, but also their health and the quality of their lives. The developers who grasp this first will have an edge in a massive, emerging market…” - William S. Becker, Director, Center of Excellence For Sustainable Development, US Department of Energy.

The benefits of sustainable development for a real estate developer or a builder are manifold and make financial sense. Take the case of Wal-Mart whose environmental initiatives are reaping benefits like considerably reduced energy consumption and lower water bills. Charles Zimmerman, Wal-Mart’s vice president of prototype and new-format development says they have managed to do this by using, “refrigerators that generate 50% less heat and no mercury, low-heat lighting sources, bathrooms with low-flow fixtures and waterless urinals that cut water bills in half”. Other Wal-Mart initiatives like ‘Daylighting’ have paid for themselves in less than 2 years.

If builders and developers incorporate similar systems at the design stage of a project, sustainable residential development can become a reality. Construction and architectural design that helps a homeowner reduce their monthly household expenditure would be, in itself, a strong enough reason for a green builder’s products to be in demand.

The benefits of and the enhanced profitability through sustainable real estate development are catching up and in a blink of the annual eye it may become the standard. Says Brenna Walraven, the chairman - elect of the National Building Owners and Managers Association and national property management director at San Antonio-based USAA Reality Co. “Within five years sustainable construction will become the norm, in part because of falling product costs. Retail and the rest of commercial real estate needs to continue to push harder for green… it keeps expenses down, it’s good business, and, more importantly, it is the right thing to do.”

Sustainable real estate development has traditionally been marred by the perception of increased costs for the developer. However, if sustainable building development measures are incorporated at the design stage, these costs can be completely removed, if not considerably reduced. For instance, using combined heat and power generation can reduce the total capital costs of community-based systems such as heating. Other costs incurred on measures like low/dual flush WCs and energy-efficient appliances are comparable, or similar in many cases, to their more popular standard versions.

Buildings use 35% of the nation’s energy each year. There are more than 76 million residential and 5 million commercial buildings in the US today and this total number is expected to go up by another 38 million by 2010. Can you imagine the stress on energy resources and the subsequent rise in the costs of buying power for households in this time? Using sustainable residential development measures like Daylighting and solar water- heating would not only reduce this stress on energy resources but also allow a developer to offer a customer more cost-efficient residential option in the long-term.

Another way developers and builders can benefit from sustainable development is by using more economical, sustainable and ecological alternatives for construction and building materials. Using recycled content building materials can reduce construction costs thereby increasing profits. There are direct financial advantages here and the costs, as explained above can be minimized.

Innovation always pays dividends and builders and developers who use sustainable development alternatives can be the ones reaping the profit. There has never been a better time to adopt sustainable development measures and still be able to make profits, than today. What we sow now, we will reap tomorrow and thus the case for sustainable development for real estate developers and builders.

]]> http://ecolifeconsulting.com/sustainable-home-development.html/feed http://ecolifeconsulting.com/green-business-practices.html http://ecolifeconsulting.com/green-business-practices.html#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:46:07 +0000 admin http://ecolifeconsulting.com/35.html Going Green for a business is considered by many business owners to be a cosmetic move, a show of corporate social responsibility with few financial benefits and an increase in spending with little ROI. A recent survey - the 2008 SHRM Green Workplace Survey released by the Society for Human Resource Management offers current statistics to disprove this. According to the results of the survey, only 50% of the surveyed organizations had a formal or informal policy or a green business guide regulating their Environmental Policies.

A whopping 43% of the same sample had no such policy or plans to implement one in the next 12 months. These are disappointing statistics and the predominant reason (85% of the surveyed companies) seems to be the implementation cost.

However, according to a report released by Gregory H. Kats, a leading expert on green buildings and Ex-Director of Financing for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, at the US Department of Energy, the perception that green buildings and workplaces cost more than conventional buildings is overstated. On the contrary, Mr. Kat’s findings reveal that green buildings provide more financial benefits than their conventional counterparts. For example, an initial investment of up to $100,000 for including green building features into a $5 million project would result in savings of at least $1 million over the next 20 years. Mr. Kat’s report shows that a minimal upfront investment of about 2% of construction costs yields life cycle savings nearly 10 times the initial cost. Therefore, integrating ‘sustainable’ initiatives into a green workplace has among others, pure financial benefits.

Beyond savings from constructing a green workplace, there are other benefits of going green, too. These in turn lead to more long-term benefits for a business; benefits that pay over a much longer time period than from one monthly energy bill to the next.

Going green and adopting sustainable workplace practices has been shown to lead to:

• Increased customer confidence
• Improved employee morale and employee health
• A stronger public image for the company
• Ease in hiring quality human resources and attrition rates that are lower than industry average
• Financial savings for the business

According to Kevin Doyle of The Green Economy, green businesses are currently growing at an average of 5% per annum. Green business by itself is a $12 billion industry and is slated to serve the needs of giants such as Wal-Mart, General Mills, Kraft Foods and Dean Foods that are increasingly turning to green initiatives that will allow them to sell eco-conscious merchandize.

Promoting green workplaces also has operational benefits like:

• Energy and water savings
• Reduced waste and subsequent lower costs for waste management
• Improved indoor environmental quality
• Greater comfort for employees translating into higher productivity
• Reduced employee health costs, and
• Overall lower operational and maintenance costs.

Considering all the benefits together, one can say that a green business enhances the ‘Triple Bottom Line’ of a business by making a positive impact on Natural Capital, Social Capital and Economic Capital. Following green business practices builds value for the company over the long term.

However, despite such papers and studies and obvious evidence of financial benefits that result from following green business practices, most companies don’t feel the need to put a green business guide in place or approach an environmental services consultant for advice on the matter of going green at the workplace. For a lot of companies, their responsibility towards a greener, more eco-friendly workplace is over once the CFL light bulbs get installed.

Here are some measures you can take to make your organization and your workplace more environmentally friendly:

• Make green business practices a part of your management policies.
• Seek assistance from employees in adhering to these policies; cooperation always leads to better results
• Put a recycling program in place.
• Make a practice of re-cycling paper, computers, water, plastic, aluminum and other possible materials to reduce waste.
• Every small act that is environmentally conscious results in greater benefits in the long run. So get down to the micro level and take initiatives like buying paper with post-consumer recycled content and using more daylight to save on energy bills.

Every environmentally friendly initiative that you and your business take will have a deeper impact on the footprint we leave for our future generations to see.

Create an Eco-Charter and your Eco-Vision
An eco-charter is a simple way to state your company’s environmental beliefs and commitments. It allows your employees, your customers, your vendors and prospective employees and media outlets to know exactly what sustainable commitments you’ve made.

The importance of an eco-charter cannot be overstated. It can help your company in 4 distinct ways.

First, it aligns your employees around a company goal no matter how disparate their job functions and roles may be. The ‘suits’ now have something in common with the blue collar workers in the warehouse. When your employees are aligned around a common goal, your employee retention goes up, morale increases, and employee job satisfaction increases.

Second, it demonstrates to people outside your company that you are making an active commitment to sustainability. This can lead to favorable media exposure, and can foster the growth of your company’s goodwill in the marketplace.

Third, it is a tremendous recruiting tool. There is an implicit assumption that a company that makes sustainability a priority will go the extra mile for their employees as well. The logic goes, If the company cares about the environment, they’ll care more about me too.

Fourth, an eco-charter separates you from your competition. Market differentiation and perceived value added are just a few of the benefits of initiating an eco-charter.

In short, an eco-charter is a simple way for you to take the lead in your marketplace, retain and hire talent and align all of your employees around a common goal.

Sick Building Syndrome occurs when building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects linked with time spent in a particular building or area in a building, but the specific illness is not identified. Common symptoms include headaches, eye irritations, nose irritations, throat irritations, coughing, dry skin, itchy skin, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and sensitivity to odors. Those experiencing “sick building syndrome” generally experience relief after leaving the problem area.

Many older buildings have outdated ventilation of 5 cubic feet per minute (cfm) of outside air for each building occupant, which should be raised to meet the current standard of at least 15 cfm. Most indoor contaminants are emitted from a wide range of products within a building. Biological contaminants such as molds, bacteria, pollens, and viruses breed throughout buildings that are not properly maintained. In addition, poorly located vents, windows, and openings let in pollutants from vehicles, building exhausts, and plumbing vents.

An indoor air quality examination of the HVAC system, possible pollutant pathways, and possible contaminant sources can be used to identify the problem. Occupants’ symptoms and position in the building are considered. Pollutant source removal or modification, increasing ventilation rates, air cleaning, education, and communication can be used to minimize sick building syndrome.

New to EcoLife San Diego’s sustainable living and building consultants blog we will do our best to bring you eco events and activities locally as well as nationally that we happen across or are told about that support our mission to live in harmony with our environment as well as to lessen our impact on the earths resources.

SolFest 2008 - Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival

Throughout the years Root Concepts has traveled to a number of green events to provide coverage and report on the latest developments, speakers and ideas in the sustainability space. Last year we covered SolFest 2007. …

GreenEdge Kids Takes Kids’ Eco-Fashion to the Streets

California - Participating in eco-fashion shows and appearing at green living events like the 3-day Green Festival in San Francisco, California, in November 2008 or the Abbot Kinney Festival in Venice, Los Angeles, California, in September 2008, …

August: Third Anniversary Festival at Green Creek Winery

North Carolina - Green Creek Winery presents our third anniversary festival. Join in the merriment of the Lucille Ball Look-A-Like Contest and have fun grape stomping. An afternoon of wine, food, live music, winery tours and good times. …

Green Events Across the US in Late Summer and Fall

Here is a guide to green events taking place acrosss the United States in the coming months. Enjoy! Build It Green green building trainings, various dates & cities in California. Build It Green is a non-profit membership organization …

Events: GreenTown Conference in Aurora, IL

IL - GreenTown: The Future of Community is a one-day conference designed to help create eco-effective communities. Mayors and elected officials, city managers, public works directors, park district directors, planners, developers, engineers, …

AN ECO MARATHON

The Shell Eco marathon in its current form began in 1985 in France, attracting thousands of young engineers and scientists from 20 European countries. The Shell Eco marathon Americas was first held at the California Speedway in 2007. …

Green events are fun and educational too, by hanging out with your Eco friendly like minded citizens you just might pick up some great green ideas, resources and more plus best yet you will be supporting the forward movement in going green and protecting our planet now and and into the future.

Remember being green starts with you.

If you have any green events you would like to feature please feel free to post it in the below comment box

4 Tips from an eco-consultant

“Everybody wants to be green.”

It’s sexy, it’s cool, and it’s socially responsible being green. Unfortunately it can also be paradoxical and elusive. Is it green to lay down bamboo flooring that’s been shipped from China? Hmm…

Whether your project is a home remodel, redoing a city building or you are incorporating sustainable business practices into your 500 employee company there are some basic tenets for your sustainable green remodeling projects that apply.

Define green to you

Green can mean a multitude of things to different people. I’ve had clients define green as creating the healthiest environment possible. For them it meant no-VOC paint, no carpets, all organic cleaners, away from freeway pollution, etc. Green to a national financial company client meant they operated their entire firm with the least amount of energy and waste consumed.

There can be a multitude of ways to define ‘green’ such as:

-Using locally sourced materials

-Reducing waste

-Using recycled products

-Using renewable energy

-Creating a ultra-healthy environment with no toxins or harmful air

Pollutants

-Using passive solar, grey water systems and solar heating

So the key is to define what ‘green’ means to you. Only then can you move on to the next step, which is;

Get clear on your goals

What are your green goals and how do they align with your definition of green? Your goals set the stage for your initial plan. Most clients we work with find that once we’ve uncovered their true definition of ‘green’ and their goals, the planning and implementation process becomes much easier.

I met with clients recently who wanted their construction company to be green. After we defined green to them we took a look at their goals. We found that by uncovering their true goals we discovered several additional revenue streams they hadn’t thought of. Originally their goal was to create an emergency shelter product that could be built onsite within a few days. After working together on their goals we found that their true goal was to create a product that was completely off the grid. Subsequently we discovered several different applications for their product and entire other markets for them to explore.

Be realistic with your budget

Some of the most powerful things you can do to green up your surroundings can also be the least expensive. For many clients doing a home remodel, we help them determine a budget prior to any work being done. Their budget coupled with their goals allows us to create a plan that works best for them. From a budget standpoint we look for solutions that focus on resource and materials conservation and reduction of energy usage.

We also help clients combine solutions. For example, we might recommend more deciduous trees strategically placed near south facing windows with a rain water irrigation system. This provides summer shading, winter heating, reduced heating and cooling bills and reduced water bills. Combined solutions are great because there is only one expense for several solutions.

Do your due diligence

Once your goals have been defined be very thorough when you interview prospective contractors, architects, consultants, etc. who are going to do the work. You want to make sure that the person you’re hiring has incorporated green as an integral part of their business and not just some ‘one off’ solution for the random client.

For example there is one paint company in San Diego I recommend because they are the only ones I know of who use no-VOC paint almost exclusively. They also offset their carbon emissions from their trucks through TerraPass. Being green and operating green isn’t a small part of their business, it’s one of the biggest elements of their company.

So, in essence, being green whether in a home remodel or at work, can be easy as long as you incorporate a few simple steps into the process. We are happy to answer your questions or provide solutions for your specific case, just give us a call.