Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities
Natural gas is a more economical energy source than oil, but the cost of extracting natural gas may be to the price of clean and safe fresh water supplies and to place limits on new land development.The extraction process of natural gas is known as Hydraulic Fracturing Drilling or Fracking. Hydraulic Fracturing may be influencing where we live by contaminating our fresh water supplies.
As the first building product to receive the Green Parents’ List Healthy Home check mark, the PureBond Plywood has no VOC, especially no formaldehyde, a well known respiratory and skin irritant. In order to meet the Green Parent’s List requirement, product must pass the VOC restriction set forth by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards and also meet additional third party validation.
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