Eileen Wosnack - Guest Expert on Sustainable Building Products

"Interior Products: Green or Local?"

Eileen Wosnack, Owner, Eclectrix Organic Home

*A special thanks to Eileen for filling a cancellation on short notice!

The trade off between certified green interiors products and purchasing local may be mixed with social sustainability and responsibility.

Definitions: All that talk about reducing the carbon footprint...what is that all about?

Cost factors: Local is cheaper? Maybe not, but what is the real cost? cost to workers, cost to environment, cost to recycle, cost to own

Products: Bamboo versus Douglas Fir, Trade offs...doing with less, buying what you need

Sustainability: Why not granite? Alternatives to countertops. Organic cotton. Processing, manufacturing, shipping.

Fair trade labour, social responsibility

Certification process.

Looking at products for homes, hands on.

Discussion Forum, question period

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Bio - An interior decorator by passion, Eileen Wosnack focuses her practice on sustainable, organic design for a toxin-free, safe environment. Eileen is adept at combining practicality and aesthetics, bringing a touch of luxurious beauty to sustainable interiors. But there is more to her interior design. From a holistic approach, Eileen encourages her clients to bring aspects that they love into the design of their homes: the colors, the textures and even the lines and designs of nature can contribute to the whole process. Eileen also owns Eclectrix™ Organic Home, a green life style store in White Rock and is a columnist for Natural Life Magazine and Dream House Magazine, as well as an educator.

PLEASE RSVP to info@sustainablebuildingcentre.com.
This is a free event but a donation of $2-$5 is suggested.

LOCATION
Light House: Sustainable Building Centre is located at 1575 Johnston Street, just East of the Public Market in the heart of Granville Island. Our centre is on the second floor and accessible via the glass door and staircase on the Southwest corner of the building. This event is sponsored by Light House Sustainable Building Centre and Cascadia Green Building Council, the local chapter of the CaGBC. Funding comes from Environment Canada and the Real Estate Foundation of BC.

Guest Expert seminars are intended to provide general information about green building products and technologies. Light House Sustainable Building Centre does not endorse any of the services or products discussed by guest expert speakers.