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Sustainability

The Perfect Match: Preserving what we love most about wood

September 30, 2026January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch
Tafisa’s Brass Band design, a Hickory woodgrain structure in taupe.

Tafisa’s “perfect match” combines three world-leading ways to save trees and conserve natural resources.

Categories Building Materials, Climate Change, Design, Interior Design, Sustainability

NeoCon 2024 Climate Positive Solutions Gallery

September 30, 2026January 11, 2024 by Kenn Busch

Happening 10-12 June, 2024 on the 7th Floor of The MART in Chicago, Illinois.

Categories Events, Exhibitions, Sustainability

Caron Thinks Green

June 5, 2025November 13, 2023 by Kenn Busch

See how Caron is thinking green alognside ClimatePositiveNOW.org to show how materials can go beyond sustainable.

Categories Building Materials, Furniture Design, Sustainability

Three Sustainability Benefits of Laminate Flooring

September 30, 2026September 21, 2023 by Kenn Busch
Laminate hardwoods in a windowed room

The North American Laminate Flooring Association is showing the way toward a climate positive future.

Categories Building Materials, Climate Change, Sustainability

Climate Positive NOW founder Kenn Busch on The Todd Allbaugh Show

October 1, 2025August 29, 2023 by Kenn Busch
The Todd Albaugh Show cover art

Hear Kenn Busch speak with Todd Allbaught about climate positive materials in this August 2023 interview.

Categories Sustainability, Climate Change

Designers are still looking for something better than wood?!?

June 3, 2025August 7, 2023 by Kenn Busch
Jon Strassner

Climate Consultant and Activist, Former Chief Sustainability Officer for the ASID, Jon Strassner agreed when he spoke on “The Carbon Denominator” panel at the AWFS Fair in July.

Categories Building Materials, Climate Change, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Sustainability

It’s Time To Specify a Climate Positive Future

September 30, 2026July 14, 2023 by Kenn Busch
A colorful forest scene

Check out the partners helping making a sustainable, positive impact in our climate future.

Categories Building Materials, Climate Change, Sustainability

Stop Making Sustainability So Complicated

September 30, 2026June 2, 2023 by Kenn Busch
Alder forest with moss-covered trunks and a fern understory

Look at this page and ask yourself: which of these sustainability metrics is clearer?

Categories Building Materials, Climate Change, Sustainability

SICAM 2021

May 29, 2025January 16, 2021 by Kenn Busch

Happening 12-15 October, 2021 in Pordenone, Italy.

Categories Events, Exhibitions, Sustainability

Heimtextil 2020/21

September 30, 2026January 16, 2020 by Kenn Busch

Happening 7-10 January in Frankfurt, Germany.

Categories Events, Climate Change, Exhibitions, Interior Design, Sustainability
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