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Historic preservation is perhaps the fundamental form of recycling. Landfills? Fill them with something else. We're reinforcing these properties' structural components, restoring landmark facades, refinishing hardwood floors, and repairing tin ceilings. These decisions are almost always a function of good design as well as good environmental policy.

And energy efficiency? Glad you asked. We are powering several projects with solar photovoltaic arrays. Compact fluorescent lighting is utilized wherever possible. Even in commercial buildings, we choose to install operable windows for natural ventilation (why air condition when you don’t need to?).

Our goal is to make each building we touch a high performance eco-friendly facility primed for the next century. Being Green is good for the environment, good for healthy living, and good for business.Delaware Valley Green Building Council
Delaware’s Green Energy Program
Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
Container Recycling Institute
Clean Air Council 

"The Ecology of Commerce" by Paul Hawken

"Natural Capitalism" by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
  • The built environment is responsible for almost 40% of carbon emissions, and accounts for 70% of the electricity demand in the U.S.
  • On average, Americans spend 90% of their time indoors.
  • Indoor pollutants can be up to 100 times higher than outdoor levels.

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    (Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Green Building Workshop, December 2004)


  • More than half of the 100 billion cans sold in the U.S. in 2005 were landfilled or incinerated. A similar amount wasn’t recycled in other countries, for a global total of about 1.5 million tons of wasted cans.

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     (Source: Container Recycling Institute)

     

  • The average American produces 4.6 pounds of trash per day (more than 230 million tons per year).
  • Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
  • Almost one-third of the waste generated in America is packaging.

    • (Source: Clean Air Council, 2006)

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