Our goal is to vigorously reduce consumption of non earth-friendly items and simultaneously offer consumers an alternative choice of products that are better for the planet. Everything we purchase and use involves some type of tradeoff. We put the task of vigorously promoting products that are better off for the planet above absolute purity. Boycotting and not promoting products that are much better than existing products, sends the message to manufacturers that there is no market at all for their products, which ends up hurting our overall movement.

Our goal is to also blend in fashion, style and great prices with our product offerings. We will never further our goals of making these products widely used in the mainstream by offering products which are not aesthetically appealing or well priced. We appreciate your understanding of our position and with your support, our company will grow large and together we will create changes in manufacturing processes and make more planet-friendly products that are made and prove to the world that these types of products are in demand and wanted by consumers on the planet!

Eco-Facts

The movement towards eco-friendly products is gaining momentum.  Green Culture has found that select companies in the furniture industry are interested in obtaining raw materials from places in the world that promote sustainable forestry.  As of today, the movement and demand by consumers for environmental furniture is quite low.  However, furniture manufacturers understand the importance of buying plantation grown wood and wood that is sustainable.  Some forests are even Certified as being sustainably-harvested.  However, in most cases, many Certified Wood species are not available in the quantities required by our manufacturers so furniture manufacturers are unable to purchase only Certified wood.  In addition, some furniture manufacturers and many forests do not wish to pay fees to obtain certificates indicating that they are making eco-friendly products.  Thus, although many forests are sustainable and many wood species are sustainably-harvested, they do not have certifications but our manufacturers perform their own due diligence to ensure that they are in fact buying and using wood that is sustainably-harvested.  As a result, Green Culture primarily relies upon our own internal fact finding as well as the information given to us by our manufacturers to prove that the products are made with the environment in mind.  Green Culture strives to obtain products that are 100% environmentally friendly and the reality is that there are trade-offs.  Many furniture manufacturers do not believe that they can obtain the long lasting qualities of furniture by using water based stains and thus are forced to used other stains and finishes.  Green Culture’s goal is to strive towards 100% eco-friendly products.  We feel we can achieve this goal by selling products existing in the marketplace that are very environmentally-friendly.  As our company sales and demand for eco-friendly furniture products increase,  we hope to eventually manufacture products that are 100% environmentally-friendly.  Your purchases of our products now and in the future as well as your referrals to your friends, will help us expand to such a degree that we will have enough clout with manufacturers to have products made which will meet our goal of being 100% eco-friendly.  In the meantime, we will continue to strive to find the most eco-friendly products available in the marketplace and make these products available to you.  Please support us in buying our furniture and telling your friends about us!  Thank you.

RECLAIMED LUMBER

Is there any way to get old growth wood and still be environmentally sustainable? Yes - a growing deconstruction movement in both the U.S. and Canada is carefully dismantling old buildings, bridges, barns, ships, warehouses, wine tanks and other structures that were built with woods now rare and highly valuable. This cottage industry is successfully reclaiming beams, flooring, lumber, doors, windows, cabinets and any other wood that can be reused. This reclaimed wood is being reused as is, or re-milled as structural timber, flooring, furniture, decks, fences, doors, and more.

Wood reclaimers are also salvaging beautiful woods from river and lake bottoms, where many logs sank decades ago as they were floated to lumber mills from the forests where they were cut. Fine wood also enters the reclaimed wood industry from "urban forests" where trees in parks or on residential streets may have blown down or require removal. Orchards past their producing years yield wood for reclamation that would otherwise have gone to waste.

RECYCLED POLY-WOOD ^®

Poly-Wood products start as dairy containers and soda bottles once destined for the landfills of America. After the end user drops the containers off at the recycling center or has them picked up at curbside, the collection is taken to the processing stage where they are separated, washed free of contamination, dried and ground into small flakes.

From there, the grounded flakes are blended with UV-inhibitors and an extrusion pigment system (so that the product has color all the way through and will not flake or peel off), along with foaming compounds, and selected process additives. The end result is a wood-like product manufactured to exacting reproducible specifications. Poly-Wood has exceptional resistance to moisture, corrosive substances, insects, and other environmental stresses. It does not absorb moisture, therefore, it will not rot, warp, splinter or crack. Additionally, Poly-Wood requires no waterproofing, staining, or similar maintenance when used in exterior applications.