Living in a material world

Today the Structured Green crew had the pleasure of donating our marvelous podium made for the Creative Coast's inaugural Innovation Awards last Friday, to the Herty Advanced Materials Development Center. The podium is built from reclaimed timber and covered in beautifully rusted tin sheets (cast-offs from the set of the Bagger Vance movie).

Herty is a fascinating company who deal in the creation, testing and development of new materials. It may sound vague but in actuality these guys are helping people to produce and market cutting edge material innovations.

For us, this is a crucial sector. With new discoveries being made in material science, we're given the media to create pieces of furniture who's life cycle, from inception onward, is low to no impact on our environment.

More good news on the horizon, we'll be sure to keep you posted.

Structured Green contributes to the Creative Coast Alliance's 2008 Innovative Awards Ceremony

Structured Green was proud to have participated in this year's Creative Coast Alliance Innovative Awards Ceremony. The food, sponsors, and contributions to the event were nothing short of spectacular. The awards show was a first for Structured Green and we were truly honored to have had the privilage to participate in the annual showcase.

We helped develop an "eco-friendly" stage set up accompanied by a comfy modern lounge area for all guests to enjoy. The stage podium was constructed from salvaged lumber from a delapidated home and covered w/ scrap metal from a local junk yard -it sounds creepy, but check out the result in the pic above. The stage back drop is a 10' version of the Creative Coast's logo constructed entirely from various aluminum cans -over 600! 11 Matching "leaves" were built out from random cans as well and placed at ground level around the stage. We also managed to sneek a small bamboo table on stage to showcase the intricate trophies designed for the event.

The Friday night event was truely spectacular and our friends at the Creative Coast sure knew how to put on a good show. Everyone at Structured Green had a blast and we look forward to the next big event.

Structured Green announces the addition of RC Green

Structured Green is pleased to introduce rcgreen's line of sustainable sofas to our eco-friendly gallery. Robert Cramer, rcgreen's founder and designer, has been making, designing, and selling furniture for more than 15 years. After spending some time researching his practices, he realized that he needed to make some changes to create a product that was both well designed and eco-friendly. The frames of the sustainable sofas are made with FSC wood, recycled steal is used for the springs and screws, glues and stains are non toxic and formaldehyde free, cushions and pillows are made from soy foam, and the sofa is finished with a range of eco-friendly fabrics.

Robert has designed rooms for The Stoli Hotel, Al Gore’s vip suite for Live Earth, The Oscars, The Golden Globes, Sundance Film Festival, Hollywood Life, and much more. Please take some time to explore rcgreen’s line, and if you don’t see anything you like, contact us, rcgreen builds to customers specs as well.

Structured Green is now a member of 1% For The Planet

Structured Green is pleased to announce they are now a member of 1% For The Planet. This is an organization where members donate 1% of all sales to a non-profit environmental organization. As of January 1, 2008, Structured Green has chosen to support two organizations, the wetlands and environmental education. We will donate 1% to preserving our beautiful wetlands for future generations, and another 1 % to educating children to create a more sustainable future for our earth. 1% For The Planet is enabling businesses to take a leading role in being environmental stewards and to set an example for the rest of the business community. These companies embrace the notion that the sustainability of the natural environment is fundamental to the sustainability of business, and Structured Green is happy to be a part of it!