30
Jun 2011

Top 10 Green Building Products 2011

Check out these innovative Green Building Products that made it in to the Sustainable Industries' Top 10 Green Building Products for 2011.

The products are selected by a panel of expert judges and Sustainable Industries’ editorial team from a pool of products nominated by their audience. Winners are selected based on environmental performance, scalability/market impact, innovativeness, design aesthetic, value and compatibility with the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating system.

Modlet 1

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26
May 2011

Carbon Positive VS Carbon Negative

I sat in on a conference call not long ago that awakened a long since hibernating pet-peeve. This peeve of mine derives from the reluctance of the supsuper-keen and super-green to commit to one term when referring to what is known as “offsetting more carbon dioxide than is emitted”.

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10
Mar 2011

Rooftop Supermarket Garden Provides Produce to Shoppers Below

It’s more than a simple garden plot atop a high rise – it’s a small scale farm actually producing food for purchase to the supermarket below. How’s that for locally grown!

Produce in the Sky

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