BuildingGreen Bulletin, November 2007: Top-10 Green Products

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• New listings in the BuildingGreen GreenSpec Product Directory are online.
• Browse green product listings.
• BuildingGreen Offers Expanded Greenbuild '07 Coverage
This year's Greenbuild in Chicago was a big success! Our editorial team reported back with news and views at our new web feature, BuildingGreen.com Live.
• Alex Wilson on Water Conservation at Greenbuild
• Does Wind Power Increase Carbon Emissions?
• Forest Certification Stakeholder Forum
• The Top-10 Green Building Products for 2007
The editors of the GreenSpec Directory and Environmental Building News have announced the 2007 Top-10 Green Building Products. This sixth annual award, announced at the Greenbuild Conference in Chicago, recognizes the most exciting products drawn from coverage in GreenSpec and Environmental Building News. Read the press release.
• Collins Pine FreeForm—FSC-Certified Particleboard—from The Collins Companies
• High-Performance Alpen Fiberglass Windows
• 180 Walls, 100% Recycled Vapor-Permeable Polyester Wallcovering from Milliken
• Top-of-the-Line 800 Series SHE98M Evolution Dishwashers from Bosch
• Greenplay Children's Furniture Includes Recycled Plastic, Agrifiber, and FSC-Certified Wood
• Caroma's New Cube3 Fluid-Sensing Urinal Flushes with One Pint of Water
• LifeGuard Low Smoke Zero Halogen Cable from Houston Wire & Cable Company
• Wireless Controls from EnOcean Enable Customized Energy Savings
• SunEye Solar Shading and Access Calculator from Solmetric Corporation
• Efficient LED Downlight from LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc.
• In the forthcoming December 2007 issue of Environmental Building News (EBN):
• EBN looks at the universe of green product certifications, distinguishing reliable third-party certifications from others and looking at what's ahead in the burgeoning field.
• Our news section offers detailed coverage of LEED announcements at Greenbuild, and our BackPage Primer answers the question, "What is the difference between power and energy?"
• From BuildingGreen's case studies database
• Hawthorne Valley Farm Store, Ghent, New YorkThis project is a single-story farm store, bakery, and deli associated with a biodynamic farm and a K-12 Waldorf school. Clerestories bring in daylight, and building components function as both support and finished surfaces.
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