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Bamboo Flooring as an Alternative to Traditional Hardwood

GLI Editors — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:00:07 +0000

If you are interested in a sustainable hardwood flooring option for your home then you must consider bamboo. It’s easy to clean and has anti-microbial properties so you know it will be around for a long time. Bamboo is a fast-growing grass that is renewable, durable, and attractive. It is an excellent alternative to [...]

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Is Cork the New Bamboo?

GLI Editors — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:00:00 +0000

For many years bamboo has enjoyed the reputation of sustainable flooring front runner, but cork is now giving bamboo a run for its money. How do they shape up in comparison? Appearance Bamboo is slightly limited in terms of color choice compared to cork. Using pigments, cork can be dyed almost any color, though many prefer the look [...]

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GTR: Prefinishing Green Flooring with Carlisle

Sean Daily — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:27:22 +0000

Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas’ Editor-in-Chief talks with Lindsay Barczuk, Green Programs Coordinator at Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, about prefinishing green flooring as an effective way to control VOC-offgassing during home floor installation. Click Play Below,or Transcript Sean Daily: Hi and welcome to Green Talk, a podcast series from greenlivingideas.com. Green Talk helps listeners in their efforts to lead more eco [...]

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GTR: Renewable and Sustainable Wood Flooring with Bamboo Hardwoods

Sean Daily — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas’ Editor-In-Chief, discusses using renewable and sustainable wood flooring in green home building and remodeling with Doug Lewis, President of Bamboo Hardwoods. Click Play Below,or Related Posts: GTR: Recyclable Carpet with Shaw Floors GTR: Prefinishing Green Flooring with Carlisle GTR: Green Living Tips and Carbon Calculators with Yahoo! Green GTR: Radiant Heat Flooring with Warmboard GTR: Sustainable [...]

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Wood Flooring and Radiant Heat Systems

GLI Editors — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

We all know that heat rises, but the heat emitted from a radiant flooring system doesn’t simply travel up—it travels out, in all directions. While this is a great and efficient way to heat our interior spaces, it’s not so great for the condition of the wood floor that holds the system … unless we take [...]

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GTR: Radiant Heat Flooring with Warmboard

Sean Daily — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:00:00 +0000

Sean Daily, Green Living Ideas’ Editor-In-Chief, talks about the green building value of radiant heating and subfloors with Terry Alsberg, CEO and Inventor of Warmboard Radiant Subfloor. Click Play Below,or Related Posts: GTR: Recyclable Carpet with Shaw Floors GTR: Prefinishing Green Flooring with Carlisle GTR: Renewable and Sustainable Wood Flooring with Bamboo Hardwoods GTR: Sustainable Wood Flooring with Carlisle GTR: Documenting [...]

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Green Flooring for Sustainable Spaces

GLI Editors — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Awareness of, and interaction with, one’s surroundings is a concept that gets to the very root of why we care about being green. When you choose the right floor, you have an opportunity to make a commitment to mindful living, to taking better care of a body that is deeply affected by what it walks [...]

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Linoleum Flooring

GLI Editors — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

“Oh, that was natural linoleum you wanted.” A response you’re likely to hear if you go in search of the true linoleum that’s often confused with vinyl. Produced in Europe, linoleum is a comfortable, quiet, resilient, and low-toxicity choice sold worldwide in sheets, tiles, or planks. This flooring option is available in a broad palette [...]

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