A Green Designer’s Happy Place
Posted on | March 1, 2009 | No Comments
I recently discovered a new retail establishment that I think we can all get excited about. It’s called Green Depot, and I bet you can imagine what it sells by its name association with the Big Orange, aka, the Home Depot. Where the Home Depot sells building supplies of all kinds*, the Green Depot supplies “environmentally friendly and sustainable building products, services and solutions.” More from their Web site:
…Its primary goal is to facilitate green living and building in communities so that it is accessible, affordable and gratifying. Green Depot has showrooms in Brooklyn, Newark, Philadelphia, Boston, Greenport, Chicago, Albany (2009) and Newark, DE (2009), a new flagship retail location in Manhattan, and 10 additional distribution centers spanning the Northeast.
What a great idea! Let me admit that I’m jealous they thought of it first. If you are in the Northeast or Manhattan any time soon, visit a showroom and let us know how it is.
*This is not to say that the Home Depot sells nothing but unsustainable goods. In reality, they do have many Earth-friendly materials that they sell under the name “EcoOptions.” Unfortunately someone in their marketing department isn’t doing their job because I had to hunt for this information on their Web site. Still, this is good news for the majority of people in the country who don’t live anywhere near Manhattan but do live within five minutes of a Home Depot.
Tags: efficient > goods > home > materials > money > retail > sustainable
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