Of course products made out of natural ingredients are all a very good choice to create an environmentally responsible design, including wooden flooring, bamboo flooring (careful here again with the process to the finished product and the glues...) or wooden furniture (be aware of the type of glue used to the making, or the bonding agent when it is made of compressed wood), woollen products (carpets, fabrics...), cotton (organic as cotton is a very polluting crop and requires a lot of water in its process) and all the new natural ingredient to fabrics including hemp, bamboo...
Be also aware of all the protective treatment applied to the finished product as they can contain volatile toxic molecules which will degrade the indoor air quality.
There are also new very exciting products becoming available on the market. They have been manufactured according to a brand new way of making things (as in Cradle to cradle concept from Braungart and Mc Donough). These products (including carpets, tiles, office furniture and more to come) are not necessarily made 100% of natural products, but have been conceived so that when the product has reached its end of use, it can be completely dismantled and every component is re-used as raw material to make another brand new product.
I do believe this is the way to go and I am always looking up for new C2C certified products that I could use in my scheme.
Emmanuelle Lemoine
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