Green Products

  • 5-Star Built Green Seattle House Combines Sound Fundamentals, Cutting-Edge Eco-Friendly Features

    A narrow lot, a bay view, and a full range of green features shape this Martha Rose construction home.

  • Peak Performance

    Heating and cooling systems account for nearly 50% of a home’s energy consumption, so your choice of equipment and the way it is installed are keys to success for any green builder. And as the focus on energy efficiency has led to improved building shell performance (including high-performance...

  • Green Solutions for all Four Walls

    A variety of green building products.

  • A payoff for green practices

    Green building principles are not just a feel-good happenstance at Allen Associates in Santa Barbara, Calif. Rather, a quantifiable number of green elements are required for each project, and green efforts beyond the minimum can raise an associate's quarterly bonus.

  • Green Kitchen Products

    The latest in Green products for kitchens.

  • New green awards category

    This year we added a green-remodeling category to the REMODELING Design Awards. We asked three green experts to help define the criteria for the category and to evaluate the entries received.

  • Merit green remodeling design award

  • Products: Walls & Water

    The latest green-friendly products.

  • Filling a void in the green roof market

    A few years ago, Ann Marzano's home needed a new roof. Environmentally conscious, she wanted to avoid asphalt or cedar, but her local homeowner's association wouldn't allow metal. After researching alternatives, she came up with synthetic slate, a durable rubber composite made mostly from recycled...

  • Claiming its green doesn't make it so

    Responding to growing consumer demand for green construction, companies industrywide are brandishing green credentials. Critics, however, warn of "greenwashing," the practice of claiming limited or superficial green practices as representative of a true green identity.