Green Consulting and Eco-friendly Products
Building green is one of the best strategies to protect the health of your family and your pets. But amidst the proliferation of green labels, and the maze of regulations, it is hard to identify truly "eco-friendly", "sustainable" and "green" products and services.
We invite you to find the answers... Green By Design provides green building products and services throughout Marin and Sonoma County and the Greater Bay Area.
Visit our Design Center and Showroom conveniently located off Highway 101 at: 1058 Redwood Highway, Mill Valley, CA 94941. You can also call us at 415.381.6200 or email us directly at infogreenbydesignus
Whether you are concerned about the impact of your home on your children's health, or you want to reduce your energy bill and your dependence on "the grid", Green by Design is your one stop shop. It is an alliance of the best green-design and healthy-building professionals in an upscale retail-like environment.
You will find a cooperative approach combining consulting, designs, products, installation and construction.
Green by Design is also an invaluable resource for builders, designers, contractors, architects and other professionals who are providing green solutions for their clients.
Build it Green announced the winners of their GreenPoint Rated Remodel The Future Contest, launched at last year's West Coast Green Conference: Mahoney Architects & Interiors, member of Green by Design, is one of the six winners.
This 1960 home that received a complete green facelift while retaining the existing structure and footprint.
Durable, sustainable, beautiful. Built-to-last, energy-efficient, eco-friendly. Our clients wanted to remodel their 1970s home to take full advantage of their spectacular, unique, San Francisco Bay view. Their goals were to modernize the home with a simultaneously classic and contemporary look using only green materials. Sometimes... Click here to read the rest of this NARI Green article.
Liberty Valley Doors is Business of the Year
On January 24th, 2009, Liberty Valley Doors was named the recipient of the 'Business of the Year' award by the Cotati Chamber of Commerce. Also, in recognition of their environmentally sound business practices they were presented with the 'Best Practices Award by the Business Environmental Alliance of Sonoma County on February 27th, 2009. Liberty Valley Doors was the first company ever nominated by two seperate agencies for this award. They were nominated by the Cotati Chamber of Commerce and the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency.
Marin Energy Authority launches website
Information about the Marin Energy Authority, the nine member power authority that will collectively study, promote, develop, and manage energy programs to address climate change by decreasing energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, is now available at www.marinenergyauthority.org.
Please come visit and explore the website, which was launched last week, and find access to:
- Meeting Agendas
- Board Packets
- Meeting Minutes
- Audio Recordings
- Board of Directors Roster
- Board Officers Roster
- Key Documents
- Member Communities
The website will be regularly updated with documents and information related to the progress of the MEA Board as they work to secure energy supply and price stability, energy efficiencies, and local economic benefits through the development of a Request for Proposal for an Energy Service Provider. The Energy Service Provider would launch Marin Clean Energy and gauge the availability, cost, and supply of renewable energy in the open market.
Fine Living: Live in beauty, save the world
What's in it for you by choosing a green chair over a conventional one, an eco-friendly countertop rather than a granite or marble one or furniture made from guilt-free wood? Why bother? ...
Read the full article written by PJ Bremier from the MarinIJ, January 24, 2009
- EcoTimber Hickory Mocha
Green your Office - Tips for making your office design environmentally friendly
We spend about 90 percent of our time indoors. Today's buildings are airtight and seal in harmful toxins, which affects indoor air quality. The tighter your building is...
Read the full article written by Deborah Crosby, ASID, LEED AP and member of Green by Design. November 2008 edition of the San Francisco Medicine Magazine, pg. 36.
Fine living: Tiburon eco-house is 'off the charts'
What would you think of a gorgeous house in Tiburon that, according to the Mill Valley architect who remodeled it, was so well-done and so energy-efficient that it's "off the charts?" Read the full article written by PJ Bremier in Marin IJ, October 25, 2008.