Green building: With more eco-friendly products, builders and designers, it's never been easier

Green building: With more eco-friendly products, builders and designers, it's never been easier When you think green building and design, you may imagine solar panels or water recycling and have an ill-conceived notion that the process is too expensive or complicated. People in the United States spend 90 percent of their time indoors. In thinking about green building and design, you should first ask what is most important to you and the rest of your family. With a basic understanding of the benefits of green building accompanied with subtle changes geared towards eco-sensitive material selections, you will give back to the environment and in turn lessen the carbon footprint and overall impact on the world. In fact, pollutants have increased at such an alarming rate that there has been a 160 percent increase in the rate of asthma in children over the last decade. Green building: With more eco-friendly products, builders and designers, it's never been easier Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 26/04/2012