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If you are into green homes and eco-friendly living like we are, you will think you died and went to heaven here at West Coast Green. This is the largest residential green building show this year. The huge expo took place at the Bill Graham Auditorium in San Francisco Thursday through Saturday September 20-22.

For starters, West Coast Green and many partners built a green prefab home designed by Michelle Kaufmann in the middle of City Hall Plaza, complete with landscaping and all. It’s a perfect way to enter the show - check out how everything looks in a true home setting before diving into the details with all of the vendors.

If you have any question about whether green building is entering the mainstream, you won’t when you walk in the door of this show - there are multiple vendors in almost every category of home construction, and the quality and variety of products are truly a sign that green is here to stay.

Looking for gorgeous sustainable wood flooring? Check out the beauties from Restoration Timber and EcoTimber. Think some cork flooring might float your boat? See the wide offering from Sustainable Flooring. And if you have a hankering for tropical hardwood but are worried about what rainforest was cut to provide it, worry no more. The reclaimed woods from Terramai are mindblowing in both their diversity and beauty.

Don’t even get me started about counters. Recycled glass wonders from Vetrazzo, recycled paper counters from PaperStone, and cement composite from Syndecrete. Based on what we’ve seen, it won’t be too long before green countertops become the materials of choice in fine homes around the country.

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