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Certification
Green Built Home's Get Friendly. Get Green Built! Retail Product Certification establishes a year-long relationship with the Green Built Home program and is an excellent way to distinguish your business from your competition. Retail Product Certification labels your products as Green Built Home Qualified and aligns them with the 2006 NAHB Green Building Program of the Year, providing opportunities to connect with this rapidly growing market.
Get Friendly. Get Green Built! certification creates a way to differentiate your business, develop affiliations with the expanding green building marketplaces, and provide customers with easily identifiable pportunities to select products based on their health, environmental or social benefits. Products that meet Get Friendly. Get Green Built! standards are identified by a distinctive on-product label that provides instant differentiation and connection with Green Built Home certification and the health, safety, comfort, durability and environmental benefits associated with green building. Additional promotional support is provided by
a comprehensive set of tools.
Tools
• Use of Green Built Home logo
• Listing & link on Green Built Home website
• Green Built Home programmatic materials
• List of qualified products for customers
• "How Friendly is Your Home?" posters
• On-product or on-shelf label stickers
• Countertop placard
Qualifications
Meets one or more criteria of the Green Built Home Checklist or one or more of the following requirements:
• ENERGY STAR qualified
• FSC certified
• GreenGuard certified for Indoor Air Quality
• California's Section 01350 Indoor Air Quality
• Cradle-to-Cradle certified (C2C)
• Certified Organic
• Certified Fair Trade
• Manufactured by a company that is ISO 14001
(or equivalent certified)
• Regionally produced or manufactured (within 500 miles)
• Contains 50%+ recycled content
• Contains 50%+ salvaged or reclaimed content
• Durable (warranted to last 40+ years)
Green Buit Home Sponsorship is required for product certification
•Contributor: $100 per product
•Supporter, Benefactor, Ally (Category Sponsor): $50 per product
•Ally (Unlimited Product Qualification) or Leader: $0 per product