Building and living Green is good for your health, conserves energy and protects the environment. Log homes are the original green building solution made directly from the earths natural resource. This abundant, beautiful and renewable natural resource is 100% green.
Building green is a hot topic among building professionals and consumers for good reason. The exposure to toxic chemicals in our every day lives is resulting in significant increases in asthma and respiratory illnesses, skin problems, migraine headaches and any number of health related problems.
Since we spend much of our time indoors, it is critical that our indoor environment is healthy and safe. Many building products today are made of man-made chemicals and emit high levels of VOCs (volatile organic compounds). Health experts are becoming increasingly aware and alarmed that these man-made chemicals are showing up in our blood and lungs.
Logs are 100% natural and dont emit VOCs or other pollutants. Soil, water and air combined with the energy from the sun, in a miraculous process of photosynthesis, are everything needed to make a tree grow. From an ecological point of view,...