Green Building and green houses are terms that you hear in these days of fairly liberal. Very often, what passes for green makes progress in one area, while in another step. If we really want to go green these days, we need the labels to find out if what they are getting really benefit the environment. Continue reading a degradation of the four biggest magnets for the "green home" label and a part of reality that is hidden in harmful MaterialsRecycled Recycled products can be considered green because they have the resources, raw materials and turn to the consumer or industrial waste into usable and valuable resources. These benefits may be excluded if the production of recycled product requires a disproportionate amount of energy consumption, pollution generated, or if the final product leeches toxins into the environment. Rubber, for example, the old tires to be used for praise, but Green, when in a closed environment in which harmful chemicals into the air leakage, which is definitely not green. Conservation of natural resources, building materials, materials with less than their predecessors, are rapidly renewable or have a high factor in the duration green list, because they contribute to the conservation of natural resources. But, as recycled products, products, resources or properties can also stories that do not know green. For example, MDF can be drawn from almost every sawmill, including timber off-cuts and uses nearly 100% of wood in the finished product. The result is that an MDF makes full use of natural resources like natural wood board. But when you press with urea-formaldehyde, as is typical, it's off-gas and work with it you can become ill. MDF also has a shorter life and less resistant to natural wood products in it may be, shall be replaced in the short term and requires the use of more resources. AirNatural cleaning material that is not the environment or the legendary leech toxins are forever green and keep them clean. Wood, stone, slate, marble and plant products, for example, long chains of chemical processing or release of fumes into the environment experienced cancer. Of course, minimally processed materials are easy to live a healthy and green. These benefits are eliminated, if the harvest, transport or production of materials creates pollution, it requires a large number of resources or a resource is depleted faster than it can renewed.Energy EfficiencyProducts, on the basis of energy consumption and water consumption on a day to day is to ensure the greatest impact on the environment of all the materials used in house. Those who really want to be green in order to ensure its operation that requires a lot of energy and water. Properly insulated walls, doors and windows, the amount of energy needed to heat and cool a building, and therefore have a favorable impact on the environment and are, fortunately, relatively easy to achieve. But as it generates electricity and heat? Unfortunately, most of us will have to choose a type of fossil fuels or electricity which limit our "green" energy options for those who are in some way the resources and non-renewable resources such as wind and solar , should not be promoted or transferred and no pollution. Of course, it is not easy being green. Although the measures taken to reduce environmental impacts through the construction and purchase of green homes is clearly one of the best places to start, it's important for ourselves when we love. Green is not just something you buy, is a careful balance between conservation, low environmental impact and sustainability.