SUSTAINABLE SPOTLIGHT: “Simply Sustainable offers a carefully-curated selection of environmentally friendly and healthy interior finish and construction products to suit all building styles and budgets.” Co-owners and mother and daughter team Mary Jane Augustine LEED AP, WELL AP (left) and Lia Nielsen LEED GA, WELL AP are shown with 11-month-old Sage (Lia’s son) in the Simply Sustainable showroom.
By Jean Stratton
Earth-friendly concerns are becoming more and more important to people as they contemplate not only the universal environment we all share, but their own individual habitat. What does this mean in terms of product choices — household or construction, indoor, outdoor — also budget, location, carbon footprint, etc.?
Increasing numbers of options are available, all leading both to opportunities and challenges. How best to determine one’s own obligation to the stewardship of the Earth and the most effective ways to implement it? more