Celebrate Earth Day By Casting Your Vote for the Greatest Green Products

Thousands of Web users will bless Earth Day 2008 by voting online for their admired blooming articles and casework in 18 categories -- from Energy, Water, Lighting and Landscaping Solutions to admired Green Blogs and Websites. Cast your vote in the GREEN LOG Home & Lifestyle Awards.

Meridian, Idaho -- Pre-EARTH DAY -- This Fall, American citizens will accept a adventitious to vote red or vote abject for their next president. But this Earth Day, citizens of planet apple can casting a altered affectionate of vote: a blooming vote for the a lot of earth-friendly articles for their home and lifestyle.

From home accouterments to cabinetry, countertops to rooftops, baptize attention to landscaping, the votes are accepting casting above the World Wide Web as allotment of the GREEN LOG Home & Lifestyle Awards, an environmentally amenable amusing acquaintance attack originated by Jim Young, an amoebic home architect and the admission administrator of the Log Home Council of the National Association of Homebuilders.

"You don't accept to abide in a log home to acquaintance a absolutely natural, renewable or acceptable lifestyle. But it helps. Log homes are the greenest, a lot of accustomed and amoebic anatomy of abode in the
history of homebuilding," says Young. "Industry analysis has compared the greenhouse gases and carbon emissions complex in added types of residential home architecture and log homes appear out way ahead."

Ultimately, it is the architecture of the home that is a lot of important. "It begins with green home design," said Tim Schafer, Lead Architect at Mountain Architects and a co-founder of the GREEN LOG Awards. "With the appropriate architecture in place, the home can optimize the use of environmentally affable articles and systems."

Some of the solutions will attic you. Take Nature's Carpet, a accomplished carpeting fabricated absolutely from wool, a by itself renewable resource, or Cork floors fabricated from the case of the cork oak tree. The US Green Building Council assigns credits to these environmentally-friendly articles that calculation appear the new blooming industry accepted accepted as LEED certification.

Dozens of the best account in green home products are now accepting showcased by the GREEN LOG Awards at www.greenlogawards.com including Websites and blogs area circadian affairs tips and artefact advice are readily available.

Based on an activation of absorption in all things green, the voting aeon for the GREEN LOG AWARDS has been captivated over by accepted demand. So whether you are cerebration of voting Red or voting Blue this November, don't discount to vote Green for Earth Day. Do it at greenlogawards.com Your home and your planet will acknowledge you for it!

For added iinformation, contact:
Jennifer Hetherington
Green Log Awards, Inc.
711 E. Broadway Ave, Meridian, ID 83642
800.729.1320
jhetherington@greenlogawards.com
http://www.greenlogawards.com

Family Retreat Exemplifies Green Luxury

This 5500+ aboveboard bottom affluence log home, nestled on a basin was advised as a weekend retreat for an breath ancestors who capital to accompany their adulation of the outdoors in. The home, corrupt in every way, is aswell advised one of the a lot of 'green' means of home building. The log home industry has developed over the years alms homebuyers a rustic anatomy of primary active with all the avant-garde amenities included

Wisconsin Rapids, WI -- Premier log home ambassador Golden Eagle Log Homes has afresh completed an alarming affluence log home in the arctic dupe of Wisconsin. The home, corrupt in every way, is aswell advised one of the a lot of 'green' means of home building.

Custom Log Home by Golden Eagle

Even as media letters abide about the abatement of the apartment market, new log home architecture continues to increase. This growing acceptance in log homes has spurred a ample absorption from consumers. Unlike stick- complete homes, which are complete on website of the property, log homes are bogus in a facility, area ability and accurateness can be optimally maintained.

Once the manufacturing is complete, the home is artlessly alien to the site, area it's bound assembled. This action reduces the carbon brand of a home body significantly, decidedly if compared to that of archetypal stick built. There's beneath waste, due to the efficient, altitude controlled accomplishment environment, there's beneath abuse and acreage impact, back abundant accouterment isn't appropriate on-site for months at a time, and, hasty to abounding - the majority of log home producers (Golden Eagle included) antecedent their logs from timberline farms, area cut copse are continuously replanted.

This 5500+ aboveboard bottom luxury log home, nestled on a basin was advised as a weekend retreat for an breath ancestors who capital to accompany their adulation of the outdoors in. The accessible abstraction home noticeably appearance the majestic adorableness of logs, with a seamless affiliation of avant-garde day luxury.

"The log home industry has developed over the years alms homebuyers a rustic anatomy of primary active with all the avant-garde amenities included," said, Jay Parmeter, buyer of Golden Eagle Log Homes.

Featuring a gourmet kitchen for entertaining, including 36" abysmal granite countertops which authority assorted Nesco cookers for if the ancestors gathers. The three-level home has 5+ bedrooms (two of which are adept suites, for the accessibility of guests) and 4 bathrooms, as able-bodied as a 2200+ aboveboard bottom accomplished ancestors room, ideal for black hangouts and winter activities. The 23' bottom ceilings in the abundant allowance battling the appearance from the assorted Semco Windows adverse the lake, and the alfresco patios allure you.

For added advice on how affluence and blooming can go duke in hand, or to see photos of this home, amuse acquaintance Scott Rouleau 860.677.0560.

Log Cabin Importer and Retailer Logspan Goes Totally Carbon Neutral

Logspan marks an industry aboriginal by developing a Carbon Neutral Policy which is basic to the company's continued appellation goals.

-- Logspan, an importer and banker of Log Cabins and BBQ Huts, has absitively to do their bit for the environment. They accept developed a Carbon Neutral Promise to bulb a timberline for every log architecture that they sell.

We accord aback to the environment. We will bulb a timberline for every Log Cabin we advertise to account any emissions produced in the transport, accomplish and affairs of that Log Cabin. We absitively as a aggregation we capital to be added pro-active in allowance the environment Buying from acceptable forests is a acceptable alpha but it costs the ambiance to get the cabins transported to the UK and we capital to account that amount by allowance bulb new forests for the next generation We ambition our barter to not alone accept the ability that they are affairs an environmentally affable artefact but you are affairs from an environmentally affable company The Logspan Carbon Neutral affiance states – “We accord aback to the environment. We will bulb a timberline for every Log Cabin we advertise to account any emissions produced in the transport, accomplish and affairs of that Log Cabin.” The Logspan Carbon Neutral affiance is accessible at http://www.logspan.com/our-carbon-neutral-promise-a85.

“We absitively as a aggregation we capital to be added pro-active in allowance the environment,” said John Newberry, a Logspan Partner. “Buying from acceptable forests is a acceptable alpha but it costs the ambiance to get the cabins transported to the UK and we capital to account that amount by allowance bulb new forests for the next generation”.

John continues, “We ambition our barter to not alone accept the ability that they are affairs an environmentally affable artefact but you are affairs from an environmentally affable company”.

Trees blemish CO2 and use it to accomplish wood. As the timberline grows, it accumulates wood, so accumulates CO2, removing it from the atmosphere area it would contrarily accord to the greenhouse effect. An boilerplate timberline absorbs 0.7 tonnes of CO2 in its lifetime, this added than offsets the sale, accomplish and accumulation of a individual Log Building anywhere in the UK.

So with Logspan’s Carbon Neutral Promise affairs a Log Cabin or BBQ Hut from Logspan is one of the a lot of environmentally affable means to acquirement your Garden Building.

About Logspan:
Logspan (http://www.logspan.com) is the new retail arm of 1st Summerhouses Ltd, a ancestors endemic business founded in 1999. Based abreast Glasgow Logspan sells throughout the Europe. Logspan is committed to sourcing, importing and affairs above balk articles that are affordable.

Contact:
Austin Newberry, Partner
Logspan
(01475) 522 999
austin.newberry @ logspan.com

Green Log Home and Lifestyle Awards Announces Winners in Web's First Dedicated, Eco-Social Awards

Meridian, ID -- Demonstrating the best means to abide green, a non-profit alignment in Idaho believes it has begin the award-winning blueprint to "building a convalescent tomorrow one home at a time."

Green Log Winners Circle

building a convalescent tomorrow one home at a time. Durisol utilizes superb recycled materials, and a different bonding system. Bio Based Insulation uses a broad, renewable ability base, which contributes to the success of this product. Solatube is a awful able way to barrier activity use in the home. The best artefact in this chic is Warmboard, with its actual avant-garde design. Wright Design is invested in a abysmal acceptance of application acceptable products. It is simple to see her charge to the Earth if examination her work. EcoTimber applies a unique, captious adherence to certifying their articles as sustainable. EcoTimber has led the way in this field. This artefact should accept a huge appulse on the marketplace. It is application a large, beginning resource. This artefact could change the way roofs are installed. Innovation at its best. This is a actual accessible website that is both advisory and beautiful. Great information. Over the accomplished 5 months, the Green Log Home and Lifestyle Awards has broke the ability of Internet amusing media, from YouTube and amusing account to amusing networking and blogging, to nominate, brainwash and bless blooming articles and casework at their best.

After accepting nominated in categories such as acceptable home energy, baptize conservation, landscaping, and 15 added architecture and abstracts solutions, over 200 nominees were accustomed in an Academy Awards appearance columnist appointment hosted online by PRNewswire. The on-demand columnist appointment let visitors accept in as controlling administrator Jennifer Hetherington appear the nominees. A video on avant-garde recycling solutions playable on YouTube and abundant added video administration sites was aswell visible. Voting was again opened up to Netizens above the Internet at assorted online locations application carriageable polling technology by amusing media aggregation Vizu.

The penultimate Winner's Circle Winners and Honorable Mentions were awarded by a aggregate of voting and anticipation by a acclaimed console including experts from ENS, the Environment News Service.

And the winners are... (with comments from the Environment News Service):

SIPS & Building Systems
Durisol Building Systems
"Durisol utilizes superb recycled materials, and a different bonding system."

Green Insulation & Systems
Bio Based Insulations
"Bio Based Insulation uses a broad, renewable ability base, which contributes to the success of this product."

Lighting Solutions
Solatube International
"Solatube is a awful able way to barrier activity use in the home."

Radiant Heat Systems
Warmboard
"The best artefact in this chic is Warmboard, with its actual avant-garde design."

Green/Sustainable Interior Design
Wright Design
"Wright Design is invested in a abysmal acceptance of application acceptable products. It is simple to see her charge to the Earth if examination her work."

Flooring: Alternative Green Materials
EcoTimber
"EcoTimber applies a unique, captious adherence to certifying their articles as sustainable. EcoTimber has led the way in this field."

Reclaimed Wood & Flooring
Aged Woods
Precision-milled from old, destined-for-the-dump barn wood. Flooring that is 100% reclaimed from old buildings.

Green Stains & Finishes
Timber Pro Coatings
Timber Pro Coatings accustomed abundant accessible abutment to abode them advanced of our anticipation panel's choice. Congratulations!

Green Hardware
Nature's Hardware
Knobs, handles, sinks, ablution accessories and added that absorb accustomed renewable or recycled material. The absolute blooming mix!

Green Cabinetry
Young Furniture
Build the kitchen of your dreams with basal ecology impact!

Green Countertops & Surfaces
Vetrazzo
Vetrazzo, affiliate of the USGBC, provides a new, artistic use for recycled glass, including bottle that cannot be recycled elsewhere. Beautiful, blooming countertops!

Green Home Furnishings
Green Culture
With the majority of online votes, GreenCulture is our 2008 Winner for Green Home Furnishings. Congratulations!

Sustainable Landscaping
Sustain Dane
Sustain Dane accustomed just abundant of the accepted vote to them aloft our judge's choice. Congratulations!

Renewable Energy & Efficiency Solutions
Water Furnace
"This artefact should accept a huge appulse on the marketplace. It is application a large, beginning resource."

Water Conservation & Systems
Sustain Dane
Sustain Dane is the people's best in two categories. Congratulations!

Green Products & Informational Web Site
Green Log Home
Green Log Home is a abundant ability on acceptable architecture and blooming building.

Best Green Roofing
ecoShake
"This artefact could change the way roofs are installed. Innovation at its best."

Best Green Blogs
Green Right Now
"This is a actual accessible website that is both advisory and beautiful. Great information."

The Green Log Home and Lifestyle Awards were founded by PrecisionCraft Log Homes led by Jim Young, admiral and the co-chairperson of the Log Home Council for the National Homebuilders Association. Sponsors of the Awards were PrecisionCraft, Mountain Architects, Chase Bank, Home Buyer Publications, Ecological Home Ideas and BuildGreenRadio.com.

To acquisition links and advice for all the nominees and apprentice added about award-winning ecology solutions, appointment the Green Home Building Products aperture pages online at GLA blog.

Estemerwalt Log Homes Saves Over 1,000,000 Gallons in Fuel Oil

Estemerwalt Log Homes has adored over one actor gallons of ammunition oil back the accession of their eco-friendly sawdust afire dry anhydrate arrangement in 1996. The arrangement that Estemerwalt uses is a archetypal of ability that not alone helps abate operating costs but allowances the ambiance as well. Twelve years ago, we bare to put a new arrangement in for dehydration barge and we were faced with the accommodation to use ammunition oil or sawdust. Even admitting ammunition oil was bargain at the time we absitively to use our decay sawdust. Estemerwalt is a ancestors aggregation and we accomplish decisions from that ancestors perspective…being cocky comestible is an important necessity. As a log home company, we affliction about bigger managing our renewable assets so that approaching ancestors can adore them. I can't brainstorm accepting to use 240 gallons of ammunition oil at today's prices. By application what is about a decay artefact as fuel, we are able to canyon alternating those accumulation to our customers. It's a abundant feeling.

Honesdale, PA -- Estemerwalt Log Homes has appear that they accept adored over one actor gallons of ammunition oil (1,138,800 at the time of this release) back the accession of their sawdust afire dry anhydrate arrangement in 1996. Instead of application a accepted ammunition oil-burning arrangement that would bake about 240 gallons per day, Estemerwalt installed a sawdust gasification arrangement to advice abate operating costs as able-bodied as account the environment.

Estemerwalt Log Homes Logo

Estemerwalt Log Homes is a 5th generation, ancestors endemic aggregation with 125 years of acquaintance in the barge industry.    Owner Kurt Propst explained his acumen abaft their sawdust afire system, "Twelve years ago, we bare to put a new arrangement in for dehydration barge and we were faced with the accommodation to use ammunition oil or sawdust. Even admitting ammunition oil was bargain at the time we absitively to use our decay sawdust. Estemerwalt is a family company and we accomplish decisions from that ancestors perspective…being cocky comestible is an important necessity." He goes on to say, "As a log home company, we affliction about bigger managing our renewable assets so that approaching ancestors can adore them. I can't brainstorm accepting to use 240 gallons of ammunition oil at today's prices. By application what is about a decay artefact as fuel, we are able to canyon alternating those accumulation to our customers. It's a abundant feeling."

The sawdust afire arrangement that Estemerwalt uses is a archetypal of efficiency.    Green sawdust is fed into a primary bake alcove area the sawdust is burned, yet fatigued of oxygen. This converts the sawdust into gas. The copse gas again passes into a accessory alcove area it is ignited.    The end aftereffect is an abundantly able and environmentally affable agency of heat.

Estemerwalt Log Homes creates one of the a lot of comprehensive log home packages in the industry, alms a advanced array of log profiles, including D-Log, Half Log, and the anytime accepted Full Round Log. For added advice on Estemerwalt Log Homes, amuse alarm 1.800.515.2060, or appointment them online at Estemerwalt Log Homes.