Seattle's Environmental Home Center Burns Down

Seattle’s

Environmental Home Center (EHC), profiled in “Getting the ‘Right Stuff’: A Guide to Green Building Materials Retailers” (EBN

Vol. 10, No. 4), lost its main warehouse, showroom, and offices to a fire on August 11, 2004. Two warehouses remain standing, however, and the company has laid out an aggressive recovery plan in a bid “not to make our problems our customers’ problems,” according to its Web site. Even while the fire burned, the EHC team began searching for temporary office space, and the company hopes to retain all of its employees. EHC is accepting help “because it gives others a way to contribute to our success, and because we need it.” Contact EHC at 800-281-9785 or customer service@environmentalhomecenter.com. The recovery process is being documented at

www.environmentalhomecenter.com/fire.shtml.