Sustainable North

From the Washington Post on Thursday, May 7, 2009:

There was a time when choosing paint for a home mostly meant mulling over color swatches (”Sahara or Sandy Beach?”). Now, for many homeowners, there’s also the pressing issue of being green: finding paint that not only looks good but is environmentally friendly or, at the very least, not toxic.

“You know that new-paint smell?” asks Vic Barnhill, customer service manager for an environmentally friendly brand called American Pride Paints. “Those are the harmful chemicals evaporating.”

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