The best way to capitalize on eco-friendliness is the degree of green efforts placed in furniture that we use, particularly lumber and wood based furnishings that epitomize the essence of ideal and green furniture both inside and outside homes.

For companies like Wisconsin-based furniture vendor Wood Cycle, nothing beats the right way to offer green furniture in the market using durable, renewable materials from locally-grown hardwoods and uses a solar kiln to dry their lumber. Excess sawdust is used for animal bedding, bark is used for mulching the yard and scrap wood goes toward heating the shop and home.

“What could be greener than buying something once to enjoy for the rest of your life?”

Furniture maker Jeffrey Lind of South Berwick, Maine was green before the term was coined, but this year he converted is off-grid workshop to solar photovoltaic power that is renewable and clean. Add to that the use of certified plantation grown lumber and his work is approaching 100 percent renewable. As a registered tree farm, he is also helping to offset greenhouse gas emissions.

(Source) OnMilwaukee.com