Greenerati

San Francisco’s Union Square may be noted for it’s abundance of shopping, hotels, tourist joints and even outside movies but a Green Home? Don’t call your Green Real Estate agent quite yet. The temporary green home occupied the prime real estate last week as part of the Better Homes and Gardens & Green Works Living Green exhibit.

The green traveling exhibit offered surprisingly educational and eye-catching examples of various water savings devices, energy star appliances, sustainable countertops, flooring, and furniture. Even though we didn’t stick around to hear the speakers (some of whom we know) the lineup offered an impressive array of green builders, designers and other knowledgeable types in the green industry.

Of course, here in SF these green exhibit folks basically speak to the choir (which doesn’t mean that we don’t listen) but we discovered that when this traveling green exhibit previously set up shop in some southern and eastern cities where formerly non-green local denizens eagerly took to these Green products and demos. This education typifies the stuff that we like to hear. This whole Green movement isn’t about Cali although some people may think otherwise.

We pretty much like the moving Green house exhibit concept with friendly people answering questions about the products. Heck they even printed the program booklet on recycled paper (not sure of the recycled content).

We had a small issue with the Green Works natural all-purpose cleaner bottles all over the place. Yes, the cleaner comes from the makers of Clorox. Yes, Green Works cleaners minimize the use of petrochemicals (99% petrochemical free). And yes, (or should we say Ruff?) that they do not use animals to test the safety and efficacy of Green Works natural cleaning products. But why do they have to use corn-based ethanol as one of their main ingredients? Maybe it’s because we just blogged about bio-fuels, the whole food for fuel thing and the controversy of corn based anything that’s got us so riled.

Okay, everyone has their issues.