Comments on: “Green” Cabinet Hardware

By: Steamstar

Steamstar — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:12:25 +0000

Nice blog and a nice product you reviewed here. http://www.seastones.com is the wrong URL. http://sea-stones.com seems to be the right one.

cheers from germany

By: admin

admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:51:58 +0000

@ Greg – There’s not doubt that the “green” debate is filled with gray areas. I’m not really sure I agree with your take at least for these cabinet knobs. This company is actually collecting the stones from a beach and replacing them with other pieces of stone. Furthermore, even if the stone ends up in a landfill it’s a natural material that came from the earth and is then returned to the earth.

I can see an argument about granite counter tops because of the amount of labor that goes into producing them. However, the reality is stone counter tops could be put in a landfill with no serious consequences on the earth.

Just my take….as usual this is a very interesting area to discuss.

By: greg

greg — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:41:00 +0000

Is the use of natural stone really “green”? I’ve struggled with this concept for quite some time and I’ve come down on the side that it’s not. We’re taking something out of the earth that cannot be replaced, and we’re “defacing” nature either by ripping stone out of the ground or by removing stones from a beach. When we’re tired of the stone, we don’t replace it where it came from, we toss it onto a pile of landfill. Stone is durable, but it’s not sustainable. And it’s not renewable like other building materials can be (unless you plan on living for millions of years!).

I struggled with this concept in building my own green home and opted for recycled material counter tops except for one area of the living room where I used granite. We struggled mightily trying to decide what material to use there. I finally came down to realizing that we were building a Platinum LEED home and that this was what we thought was our one environmental splurge.

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