The Best of Green Design: Overview

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"Green design" may be a relatively new term for describing ideas that are environmentally sensitive, but the concept is timeless — particularly as it applies to the home. The principles are simple: Use materials wisely, conserve water and energy, save money in the long term, and create surroundings that are safe and healthy. In other words, follow the standards of good engineering. The systems and products on the following pages do all of these things. They include a house that can sell energy to the grid, a countertop made from glass that would otherwise go to a landfill, and a cable that wires sunlight through solid walls. The innovations even extend to how neighborhoods are built and how beer is brewed. Clean, efficient, problem solving. That's the kind of progress that PM admires.

The Best of Green Design

The Best of Green Design: Overview Haworth's Eco-Friendly, Recyclable Zody Chair: Ideal Seat LivingHomes' One-Day, Platinum-Rated Prefab Home: Model House LivingHomes' Green Interior Design: Top 5 for Inside New Belgium Brewing's Green Beer: In Good Taste Milliken's Modular Carpeting: Bio-Based Floors Smith & Fong's Bamboo-ply: Alt-Wood BioBased 501 Insulation: Soybean Sealing GreenGrid's Drought-Tolerant Roof Plants: Keeping It Cool Sunlight Direct's Hybrid Solar Lighting: Fiber Bright

Solatube's Reflective Daylighting System: Your Closet's Skylight IceStone's Recycled Surfaces: Leaving No Trace Forest City Enterprises' Waste-free Community: Re-doing Denver TerraMai's Rescued Wood Floors: Old to New GigaCrete's Hydraulic Cement: Building Panels Amazon Environmental's Reprocessed Paint: Latex Coating Hydro Delta's High-Efficiency Heat Pump: Geothermal Power HelioVolt's Thin-Film Cells: Solar Power The Future of Green Design

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