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Oct 27, 2006 4:41 pm US/Eastern
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3 On Your Side: Environmentally Friendly Homes
by Jim Donovan
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
How environmentally friendly are the products that you use in your home? Those products are often described using the word "green." 3 On Your Side finds that more and more homes are becoming "green" from top to bottom.
Good Housekeeping Editor Mary Kate Hogan says "more and more people in America want to be kind to the environment and it doesn't necessarily mean just eating organic foods. They even want their homes to be green."
That was the goal of Lisa Sharkey and Paul Gleicher. They are rebuilding their home and trying to make it more environmentally friendly.
But Paul Gleicher tells us that environmental design is still in it's infancy and that it's not always easy to find manufacturers who can make "eco-friendly" materials.
The couple is using things like lyptus wood flooring from Weyerhauser. The wood does not come from old growth forests.
They have installed Energy Star appliances from Bosch and are using low emission and low VOC paints from Sherwin-Williams.
Their home has recycled fiberglass insulation by CertainTeed in every wall of the house, and even the Todd Oldham La-Z-Boy Furniture is made with wood from sustainable species.
They even used a "green" roofing product that is actually the color green.
Lisa Sharkey says the roof is "made of mountain grown sedum, which is all alive and lives all four seasons of the year. If everyone had a green roof the temperature of New York City would be lowered by five degrees."
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