Ten More Ways to Go Green

BuildingGreen, Inc., publisher of the GreenSpec® Directory and Environmental Building News™, today announced the 2006 Top-10 Green Building Products. This fifth annual award, announced at the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild Conference in Denver, recognizes the most exciting products drawn from additions to the GreenSpec Directory and coverage in Environmental Building News.

“The range of product types showing exemplary innovation is amazing,” noted GreenSpec coeditor Alex Wilson. Three of BuildingGreen’s winning products this year have the primary environmental attribute of saving energy. Two products save water. Three products are green in part because they are made from recycled waste; one is a system of salvaging material. Rounding out the list are an innovative way of turning an ordinary material, concrete, into one of the best flooring options for commercial buildings, and a provider of renewable energy credits, an excellent way for any building owner to support renewable energy. “Most of the Top-10 products this year have multiple environmental attributes,” said Wilson.

For a complete list and description of BuildingGreen’s Top-10 Green Building Products, click here.

A “Light Bulb” Moment

About a month ago, I posted on a Fast Company magazine article about compact fluorescent lamps (CFL). Today, marketing guru Seth Godin, follows up with his take on the issue. An expert on the success and failures of consumer products and services, Seth feels that CFLs have a marketing problem. “They need to stop looking so weird, being so expensive and being so hard to open”, he writes.

So, there you go…designers get to work. Make CFLs look better and easier to access and save the world…as designers tend to want to do.

I am doing my part. CFLs are slowly replacing every bulb in my house in Chappaqua.

Are you using CFLs? Click the comment link above and let me know? If no, why not?

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Update: Wal-Mart is doing there part.