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3M Solar Concentrating Film

3M Solar Concentrating Film

3M™ Solar Concentrating Films are durable, high fidelity Fresnel Lens films that have been used for more than ten years, helping to reduce costs ...more

Accoya Wood

Accoya Wood

Accoya® wood can be used to replace traditional construction materials such as steel. Accoya® is a high technology wood, created from sustainably ...more

Acro Pure Paint by Miller

Acro Pure Paint By Miller

Acro Pure has been formulated with a new generation ZERO VOC resin to make a wall finish that is easy to use, easy to clean, and safer for the ...more

Adobe

Adobe

Composition of adobe: An adobe brick is made of clay mixed with water and an organic material such as straw or dung. The soil composition typically ...more

Advanced Framing

Advanced Framing

Advanced framing refers to a variety of framing techniques designed to reduce the amount of lumber used and waste generated in the construction of a ...more

AgriBoard Panel

AgriBoard Panel

AgriBoard is a structural building panel made with compressed wheat straw, a Timber Strand sub-frame, Exposure 1 OSB, (7/16-inch no urea formaldehyde ...more

American Clay Earth Plaster

American Clay Earth Plaster

American Clay Earth Plasters are a natural, environmentally friendly way to finish interiors. Non-toxic and made in the USA, these plasters are an ...more

AmeriPolish Concrete Dye

AmeriPolish Concrete Dye

AmeriPolish is a translucent dye that is formulated using extremely fine molecules of color designed to penetrate and color any cementitious surface. ...more

Amvic ICF

Amvic ICF

Amvic ICF structures combine expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation and concrete thermal mass. This highly effective combination of materials ...more

ARXX ICF

ARXX ICF

ARXX Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs) are made with 40 percent recycled content by weight and are Cradle-to-Cradle certified. They offer a higher ...more

Bamboo by Lama

Bamboo By Lama

Bamboo segments are cast into translucent resins to form panels. The diagonally-cut bamboo sections are left open or filled with colored resins for ...more

Based Upon Surface

Based Upon Surface

Based Upon Surface creates hand made finishes using liquid metals, resins and lacquers. Typical applications are wall paneling, sculptural forms, ...more

Bear Board Recycled Plastic Lumber

Bear Board Recycled Plastic Lumber

Bear Board is environmentally-friendly, 100 percent recycled plastic lumber product. Dimensional profiles serve a variety of applications—mainly ...more

Bedrock Glass Tile

Bedrock Glass Tile

A creative company that manufactures a wide array of products - all handcrafted from 100 percent recycled glass. Its line of Blazestone tiles are ...more

Bio-Glass

Bio-Glass

Bio-Glass is made of 100 percent recycled glass. It is available in tiles and slabs for hard surface design finishes such as countertops, wall ...more

Cell Pak Cellulose Insulation

Cell Pak Cellulose Insulation

Cell Pak uses 100 percent recycled newsprint to provide high quality, light density, blown-in cellulose insulation. Cell Pak cellulose insulation is ...more

Clay Roof Tile

Clay Roof Tile

US Tile's clay roof tiles are Cradle-to-Cradle certified and 100 percent recyclable. Recycled content is up to 59 percent. Seventy-five percent of US ...more

Cob

Cob

Cob is an old method of building with earth and straw or other fibers. It is similar to adobe in that the basic mix of clay and sand is the same, but ...more

Cordwood Wall

Cordwood Wall

Cordwood masonry is an old building technique whereby walls are constructed of short logs (called "log-ends") laid up widthwise in the wall within a ...more

Cork Fabric

Cork Fabric

London-based designer Yemi Awosile developed a fabric from an innovative combination of repurposed cork and elastane. Cork Fabric can be used for ...more

Cradle-to-Cradle Certified Products

Cradle-to-Cradle Certified Products

Cradle to Cradle Certification is a multi-attribute eco-label that assesses a product’s safety to humans and the environment and design for future ...more

CRI Green Label

CRI Green Label

In 1992, CRI launched its Green Label program to test carpet, cushions and adhesives to help specifiers identify products with very low emissions of ...more

Crystalline Solar Cells by Silicon Energy

Crystalline Solar Cells By Silicon Energy

Silicon Energy's crystalline solar modules use high-efficiency crystalline silicon cells that are strong and durable. The double-glass module ...more

Denim Insulation UltraTouch

Denim Insulation UltraTouch

UltraTouch Denim Insulation is made from high quality natural fibers. These fibers contain inherent qualities that provide for extremely effective ...more

EcoBamboo Flooring

EcoBamboo Flooring

EcoBamboo is flooring is made from solid Moso Bamboo, a highly renewable resource that matures in just five to six years after being planted. It's ...more

EcoCradle Packaging

EcoCradle Packaging

EcoCradle packaging is made with MycoBond, a product that is developed with mushroom roots to transform agricultural waste products into strong and ...more

EcoLogo Certification

EcoLogo Certification

Founded in 1988 by the Government of Canada but now recognized world-wide, EcoLogoTM is a North American environmental standard and certification ...more

EcoReserve Walnut Flooring

EcoReserve Walnut Flooring

EcoReserve walnut flooring is made of FSC-certified mixed sources that is 100 percent grown and manufactured in the USA and constructed with a ...more

EcoTop Countertops

EcoTop Countertops

EcoTop is an FSC-certified sustainable product, comprised of a 50/50 fiber blend of 100 percent post-consumer recycled fiber and rapidly renewable ...more

EcoWise Wool from Pendleton

EcoWise Wool From Pendleton

Pendleton Eco-Wise Wool is a natural fabric that has been Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified. Wool is an environmentally friendly and naturally ...more

Element by Hycrete

Element By Hycrete

Hycrete’s Element is an admixture that integrally waterproofs concrete used in commercial construction. Certified to Cradle-to-Cradle by McDonough ...more

Energy Star Certification (USA)

Energy Star Certification (USA)

ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that certifies products, as well as ...more

Enviro Board

Enviro Board

Enviro Board is a low-embodied-energy modular green building panel. It is made using a patented milling process capable of economically transforming ...more

EnviroGlas Terrazzo

EnviroGlas Terrazzo

EnviroGlas Terrazzo is made of post-consumer and post-industrial recycled glass. Over 40 billion glass bottles are made every year, and 75 percent ...more

Eurosafe Linoleum Adhesive

Eurosafe Linoleum Adhesive

Linoleum adhesive with a high initial grab is zero-VOC, solvent-free and non-flammable. It is for the installation of linoleum in sheets and tiles, ...more

Everclean Flexible Ducts

Everclean Flexible Ducts

EverClean flexible, insulated ducts resist and inhibit the growth of mold and mildew. All components are flame-resistant and self-extinguishing and ...more

EZflow French Drain

EZflow French Drain

EZflow is a gravel-free alternative to a traditional French Drain system. By collecting surface water and redistributing it into the subsoil, EZflow ...more

FibreC Reinforced Concrete

FibreC Reinforced Concrete

FibreC is a lightweight, high-performance concrete that requires no steel reinforcement. A special extrusion process incorporates layers of ...more

FireClay Tile

FireClay Tile

Fireclay Tile, a sustainable California manufacturer of innovative ceramic tile, manufactures Debris Series Recycled Tile that contains more than 70 ...more

Flexible Lighting Array

Flexible Lighting Array

NanoSonic’s flexible lighting arrays are portable, lightweight, low-voltage and potentially offer more lumens of light energy for reduced ...more

Flor Carpet Tiles

Flor Carpet Tiles

FLOR products are manufactured in sustainably-focused facilities utilizing increasing quantities of recycled and renewable raw materials. FLOR’s ...more

Flyash

Flyash

Power plants that burn coal account for more than half of the electricity produced in the United States. These power plants also produce residual ...more

FSC Certification

FSC Certification

FSC has developed a set of Principles and Criteria for forest management that are applicable to all FSC-certified forests throughout the world. There ...more

FSC-Certified Plywood

FSC-Certified Plywood

Coastal Treated Products Company makes an FSC-Certified plywood. FSC stands for the Forest Stewardship Council, a non-profit organization that ...more

FSC-Certified Wood

FSC-Certified Wood

Founded in 1993, the Forest Stewardship Council is a global, independent, non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation and maintenance of the ...more

Green Planet Paints

Green Planet Paints

Green Planet Paints do not use petroleum, using plant-based binders and additives instead. They minimize additives and they do not over-formulate, ...more

Green Seal Certification

Green Seal Certification

The Green Seal foundation was established in 1989 to help businesses make cleaner, greener choices in manufacturing their products. Products with ...more

Greener Product Certification

Greener Product Certification

Greener Product Certification means that a product has been evaluated against the LEED, LEED for Homes and NAHB green building standards using ...more

GreenGuard Certification

GreenGuard Certification

GreenGuard Certification programs provide scientific rigor based on best practice guidelines, stringent evaluation criteria and robust verification ...more

Greensulate Insulation Board

Greensulate Insulation Board

Greensulate™ is an all-natural, rigid board insulation comprised of local agricultural byproducts like cotton burrs and buckwheat hulls. Because ...more

Hemcrete Hemp Walls

Hemcrete Hemp Walls

Hemcrete is a building material that is carbon neutral - and actually carbon negative. Tradical® Hemcrete® is a bio-composite, thermal walling ...more

Homasote

Homasote

Homasote’s environmentally-intelligent building and industrial packaging products are made of 98 percent recycled materials. First made in 1916, ...more

Hue Boards

Hue Boards

Hueboards are gorgeous color imbued, vitreous enamel porcelain "whiteboards" and integral color architectural panels. Hue Boards are a modern ...more

HybridShield Fire Retardant Coating

HybridShield Fire Retardant Coating

NanoSonic’s HybridShieldTM Fire Retardant Coating is an advanced polymer-based nanotechnology that provides state-of-the-art fire and flame ...more

HybridShield Hydrophobic Optical Coatings

HybridShield Hydrophobic Optical Coatings

NanoSonic’s novel HybridShieldTM hydrophobic optical coatings integrate innovative technologies with practical usage, making them applicable to a ...more

Hydro Safe Biodegradable Hydraulic Oil

Hydro Safe Biodegradable Hydraulic Oil

Hydro Safe ® is a vegetable base hydraulic fluid formulated to meet the demand for biodegradable hydraulic oils. It is an environmentally friendly ...more

Hydrotech Garden Roof

Hydrotech Garden Roof

Hydrotech's Garden Roof® Assembly allows the design professional to transform virtually any flat or sloped roof into a landscaped environment. ...more

Hydrotech Monolithic Roof Membrane

Hydrotech Monolithic Roof Membrane

Monolithic Membrane 6125 (MM6125®) is a thick, tough, flexible, self-healing membrane for use in waterproofing and roofing applications, especially ...more

Hyperflex Roof Primer

Hyperflex Roof Primer

Hyperflex Primer helps roofing become more energy-efficient by providing an insulative coating. By infusing recycled rubber into a non-toxic, ...more

IceStone Solid Surfaces

IceStone Solid Surfaces

IceStone is a durable surface made of 100 percent recycled glass in a cement matrix. Each slab is VOC-free, made in the USA, and holds Cradle to ...more

Icynene Insulation

Icynene Insulation

Icynene Insulation System is a complete insulation, air and moisture barrier system that windproofs and seals wall, floor and ceiling cavities ...more

InSpire Solar Wall

InSpire Solar Wall

The solar InSpire wall panel, a transpired solar collector, is mounted a few inches from the building’s outer wall. The precision perforations in ...more

Johns Manville Fiberglass Insulation

Johns Manville Fiberglass Insulation

In 2002, Johns Manville converted its entire line of building insulation to formulations that do not contain added formaldehyde. Because we’ve ...more

Kebony Wood

Kebony Wood

Kebony is based on a process where sustainable wood is made more durable, harder and more stable using liquids from biowaste material. Kebony is a ...more

Kirei Board

Kirei Board

Kirei(TM) Board is an engineered panel product of the company Kirei USA, constructed from the left-over, post-harvest stalks of the sorghum plant. ...more

Kirei Windfall Engineered Panels

Kirei Windfall Engineered Panels

Start with old granaries and breweries destined for the scrap heap, add a little restorative magic, and Kirei is proud to present Windfall, their new ...more

Lath and Plaster

Lath And Plaster

Lath and plaster is a building process used mainly for interior walls in Canada and the United States until the late 1950s. After the 1950s, drywall ...more

Leather Tile

Leather Tile

These leather tiles are made from recycled leather that is produced in a similar way to recycled paper: it's pulped and bonded together again. Real ...more

LECA Building Blocks

LECA Building Blocks

LECA - or lightweight expanded clay aggregate - is clay that has been pelletized and fired at a high temperature in a rotary kiln. The firing process ...more

Luminescent Gravel

Luminescent Gravel

Luminescent Gravel is integrated into concrete flooring to enhance emergency-exit signage within a building. The particles can be masked and evenly ...more

Marmoleum

Marmoleum

Marmoleum is an environmentally-friendly flooring product made with natural ingredients that include linseed oil, wood flour, pine rosins, limestone, ...more

Metal Rubber

Metal Rubber

Metal RubberTM is a highly electrically conductive and highly flexible elastomer. It can be mechanically strained to greater than 1000 percent of its ...more

Milk Paint

Milk Paint

As in the originally produced home-made milk paint, Milk Paint combines milk protein, lime, clay, and earth pigments such as ochre, umber, iron ...more

Monocrystalline Solar Panel by Sharp

Monocrystalline Solar Panel By Sharp

These high-performance photovoltaic modules manufactured by Sharp are made of dark blue monocrystalline (156.5 mm2) silicon solar cells with module ...more

Nanosolar Solar Cell

Nanosolar Solar Cell

The cell technology platform developed by Nanosolar is characterized by a CIGS (copper indium gallium (di)selenide) semiconductor printed on low-cost ...more

Nature

Nature's Carpet Wool Carpet

Nature's Carpet is an international manufacturer and distributor of 100 percent wool carpets, offering more than 60 styles and colors of 100 percent ...more

No Limit Panels

No Limit Panels

Metaalwarenfabriek Phoenix applies rubber pad–based metal forming to manufacturing double-curved sheet metal products. Only one mold is required in ...more

Oceanside Recycled Glass Tile

Oceanside Recycled Glass Tile

All Oceanside Glass Tile is made primarily from silica sand, an abundant natural resource. But its cobalt color tiles are made with 82 percent post ...more

PaperStone Composite Surfaces

PaperStone Composite Surfaces

PaperStone is a sustainable countertop material that can also be used for conference tabletops, signs and plaques, window sills, cutting boards and ...more

Parametre

Parametre

Create innovative spaces with lightweight and expandable Parametre 3D-textile systems. Made of 100 percent non-woven polyester, this flexible textile ...more

PermaLight Exit Sign and Path Markers

PermaLight Exit Sign And Path Markers

American PermaLight Inc. manufactures photo-luminescent (glow in the dark) exit signs and path markings that are non-electric and non-radioactive. ...more

Phase Change Materials

Phase Change Materials

Phase change materials (PCMs) can smooth daily fluctuations in room temperature by lowering the peak temperatures resulting from extreme external ...more

Pise (Pneumatically Impacted Stabilized Earth)

Pise (Pneumatically Impacted Stabilized Earth)

Builder David Easton recently developed a new, less labor-intensive way of creating a rammed-earth-type home. The process is called Pneumatically ...more

Rain Tube

Rain Tube

RainTube® is the first system to work with any roof/gutter combination and accommodates exposure to varying levels of debris. It is made from 100% ...more

Rammed Earth

Rammed Earth

Using it involves a process of compressing a damp mixture of earth that has suitable proportions of sand, gravel and clay (sometimes with an added ...more

RavenWindow Self Tint Windows

RavenWindow Self Tint Windows

RavenWindow™ is the company’s signature product. This adaptive smart-window for use in commercial, residential and industrial buildings uses ...more

Richlite Countertops

Richlite Countertops

Richlite countertops are made primarily of paper purchased from FSC-certified sources and/or recycled paper. The paper is treated with resin then ...more

Scientific Certification Systems

Scientific Certification Systems

Scientific Certification Systems offers a wide range of green product certifications including single-attribute claims, multiple-attribute claims, ...more

Seneca Shake Roof Tiles

Seneca Shake Roof Tiles

Seneca Shake offer the appearance of natural cedar shake while providing improved performance, protection and durability. Manufactured from recycled ...more

Shipping Containers

Shipping Containers

Shipping containers can be used as the basis for habitable structures. They are relatively inexpensive, structurally sound and in abundant supply. As ...more

SkyPly FSC Plywood

SkyPly FSC Plywood

SkyPly and SkyBlend plywood panels are available as FSC-certified sustainable wood composite wood products. TRoseburg is based in Oregon, with ...more

Solatube Skylights

Solatube Skylights

The Solatube Daylighting System captures sunlight on the rooftop and redirects it down a reflective tube into interior spaces. The tubing will fit ...more

Solatube Solar Star Attic Fan

Solatube Solar Star Attic Fan

Solatube's Solar Star Attic Fan is solar powered for attic ventilation, requiring no electricity and costing nothing to operate. By placing the unit ...more

Solucent Daylighting Mesh

Solucent Daylighting Mesh

Solucent is an energy-saving and daylighting mesh shading system for building exteriors and interiors. It was developed by Cambridge Architectural to ...more

Stramit StrawBoard

Stramit StrawBoard

Stramit StrawBoard is manufactured from straw such as wheat or rice by a patented process of heat and pressure that fuses the straw using its ...more

Strandwoven Flooring

Strandwoven Flooring

Strandwoven flooring is made with layers of different wood fibers, such as bamboo, poplar or mulberry. It can be two and a half times as hard as oak ...more

Strawbale

Strawbale

There are two main categories of strawbale construction: load-bearing and non-load bearing. A post and beam framework that supports the basic ...more

Stucco

Stucco

Stucco is a durable exterior wall covering consisting of cement, lime, and silica applied in several layers over wood or metal lath. Since these ...more

Tabby Cement

Tabby Cement

Tabby is a building material consisting of lime, sand, water, and crushed oyster shells. It was made and used on the Sea Islands of coastal South ...more

TegolaSolare Solar Roof Tiles

TegolaSolare Solar Roof Tiles

The secret of the Tegolasolare roofing tile is the photovoltaic panel hidden inside. It’s one of the best examples of BIPV (Building Integrated ...more

TerraTex Fabric

TerraTex Fabric

Terratex is made from 100% recycled polyester (largely post-consumer plastic soda pop bottles) or renewable materials (such as PLA which is derived ...more

Terrazzo Tile

Terrazzo Tile

Terrazzo Tile is a cementitious single layer precast terrazzo tile, containing 100 percent recycled glass, that meets the California Deptartment of ...more

ThermaSteel Panels

ThermaSteel Panels

ThermaSteel panels are Energy Star-rated pre-insulated light gauge steel framing made with galvanized steel and EPS that are both 100 percent ...more

Trex Decking

Trex Decking

Trex composite products are made of a unique combination of wood and plastic fibers that are formed into decking, railing and fencing products. Trex ...more

TrusSteel Trusses

TrusSteel Trusses

TrusSteel trusses are made from 100 percent US Prime steel, with 30.9 percent post-consumer recycled content and 11 percent pre-Consumer recycled ...more

Tubolit Pipe Insulation

Tubolit Pipe Insulation

Polyethylene Pipe Insulation can be used in residential and commercial plumbing systems to insulate hot water, non-steam pipes to help reduce heat ...more

TuffTrack Grassroad Pavers

TuffTrack Grassroad Pavers

TuffTrack Grassroad Pavers are manufactured in rigid 24-inch square panels for maximum strength. With a compressive strength of 98,770 psf, Tufftrack ...more

Vault Structured Metal

Vault Structured Metal

Bionic vault-structuring is a method to generate a three-dimensional pattern in metallic sheets. Thanks to the controlled self-organization ...more

Vetrazzo

Vetrazzo

Vetrazzo is a recycled glass surface for kitchen and other work counters. Invented in 1996, Vetrazzo is composed of a proprietary formula that ...more

Wattle and Daub

Wattle And Daub

Wattle and daub (or wattle-and-daub) is a building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed ...more