First Coast Solar Screens uses Phifer solar screening products.
Phifer fabrics
Phifer was founded by Reese Phifer and is the world’s leading manufacturer and seller of energy saving sun control fabrics for residential and commercial use.
“Phifer’s commitment to the environment dates back to the company’s origins when our founder, Reese Phifer, envisioned a manufacturing facility that would bring a better standard of living to its community, advances in technology to its industry and innovative products to its customers.”
They offer products of insect control, plus interior and exterior sun control. Their products are 100 percent recyclable and their fabrics are PVC-free.
Their production process includes a waste management program, employee awareness training and pollution prevention programs to insure that they stay as green as possible.
Phifer was the first manufacturer in their industry to receive GREENGUARD Certification. They state,
“At Phifer, environmental responsibility is part of our corporate culture. We are leaders. We are proactive. We do it because it is the right thing to do.”
Sun Control
GREENGUARD is an environmental institute that was created to help manufacturers to improve their processes and to do so in a more environmentally-safe and aware way. It has helped manufacturing companies in more than 20 industries to improve their processes.
As this article could continue on for endless pages, circling through all the companies that make up design industries, it is evident that Bioclimatic Design is everywhere and requires everyone’s commitment. It is throughout the design industries and is becoming a required mind-set verses a personal choice. It will take every industry, every person to re-establish what we’ve taken from and done to the earth.
Bioclimatic Design is a circle engulfing the world to make it a better place.
Resources: Greenguard, Phifer, Council for Watershed Health, The American Institute of Architects and Kane Cres
Special Thanks to: John Wilder and Brian Sheridan
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