After more than a year of development, green building industry leaders officially released the Health Product Declaration (HPD) Open Standard Version 1, an open standard format for reporting contents and chemical hazards in building products.
Hardwood floors coated with Hardwax Oil finish provide a new, fully environmentally-friendly hardwood flooring solution, and will be of interest to interior designers, architects and homeowners who are looking for healthy, durable, and natural flooring solutions.
“Green,” “environmentally friendly” and “sustainability” are terms that have become synonymous with life in 2012. Regardless of the region, industry or market, manufacturers, distributors and consumers have taken notice of how lifestyle choices influence product selection, and how those selections impact the environment.
The U.S. General Services Administration announced recently that it issued a Request for Information online to gather input on new sustainable building technologies and practices in support of its Green Proving Ground program.
The U.S. Green Building Council expects to substantially revise LEED next year, forcing builders beginning in 2015 to take new and more-detailed steps to get buildings certified as environmentally friendly by the private non-profit group.
Marketers of consumer products touting various environmental-benefit claims finally have some closure on how to approach green advertising without running afoul of the Federal Trade Commission, said LeClairRyan partner and 17-year FTC veteran Thomas A. Cohn during an Oct. 12 business-law conference.