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Ceiling Fans Not Made in the U.S.? A New Website Helps

One of the biggest hurtles in designing to Living Building Challenge standards is finding local materials, as we discuss here. The folks at Cascadia Green Building Council have found a website that may help: www.stillmadeinusa.com. It's not perfect, but it's a start. Now, if only we could figure out how to incorporate manufacturing locating information into product listings in all of the various databases out there.

Published July 9, 2009

(2009, July 9). Ceiling Fans Not Made in the U.S.? A New Website Helps. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/news-article/ceiling-fans-not-made-us-new-website-helps

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BuildingGreen Basic Member

July 24, 2009 - 7:19 am

Instead of solely worrying about the origin of your new materials (which still take natural resources to create), a true green perspective would be to source from antique, vintage and contemporary dealers. Reusing is much greener than local sourcing.

Our site, http://VandM.com, has over one hundred dealers from around the world of vintage furniture, antique furniture, contemporary furniture, lighting, and home accessories