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Baltix Sustainable Furniture’s Green Table Collection Selected BuildingGreen Top-10 Product for 2009

Baltix Sustainable Furniture
Minneapolis, MN

PHOENIX, AZ, November 12, 2009 – Baltix Sustainable Furniture’s Green Table Collection has been selected as one of BuildingGreen’s Top-10 products of the year by the editors of Environmental Building News and GreenSpec®. This eighth annual award recognizes the most innovative and exciting green building products added to the GreenSpec® Directory during the past year or covered in Environmental Building News.

“Our selections of the Top-10 Green Building Products represent a wide range of product types in many different application areas,” noted GreenSpec BuildingGreen founder and executive editor Alex Wilson. This year’s list is particularly diverse, ranging from a recycled-content concrete block, to a flywheel energy storage system for data centers, a mobile solar generator for job-site power, and an advanced modular classroom for schools. “Many of the Top-10 products this year have multiple environmental attributes,” said Wilson. BuildingGreen’s Top-10 product selections, as in previous years, are drawn primarily from new additions to the company’s GreenSpec Product Directory. About 200 products have been added to the GreenSpec database during the past year. “New products are being introduced all the time, making it a challenge for our staff to keep up,” said Wilson. The GreenSpec database includes more than 2,100 product listings, representing several times as many actual products.

A big driver in the development of green products continues to be the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® Rating System (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), which awards points for the use of certain product types or for the energy or water savings that certain green products can achieve. “Designers of LEED buildings are looking for green products, and manufacturers are responding,” said Wilson. In the online version of GreenSpec, users can find products organized by LEED credits.

Baltix is an innovator in the design and manufacturing of sustainable office furniture solutions that are eco-friendly, highly functional, aesthetically pleasing, and competitively priced. Baltix products are good for you and good for the environment. By only selecting the most durable, natural, sustainable, and recyclable materials available, Baltix designs products “green from the ground up” to assist in achieving maximum LEED credits for commercial interiors.

GreenSpec is the leading national directory of green building products. Products are selected based on criteria developed over the past 17 years. Manufacturers do not pay to be listed in GreenSpec, and neither GreenSpec nor Environmental Building News carry advertising; both are supported by users of the information. “Our policy of not accepting money from product manufacturers allows us to be objective in our review of products,” said Wilson. The GreenSpec product database is also available online as part of BuildingGreen.com.

Other BuildingGreen resources include Environmental Building News, the oldest and most widely respected newsletter in the green building field; GreenBuildingAdvisor.com, an all-in-one information source for residential builders and remodelers; and LEEDuser.com, a brand-new resource for teams pursuing certification through the LEED Rating System. BuildingGreen celebrates its 24th year in business this year. For information on BuildingGreen resources, visit www.BuildingGreen.com or call 800-861-0954.

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Contact:
Erik Knutson
(763) 210-0155 x172
erik@baltix.com