Sustainable and healthy living

More and more people want to reduce their eco­lo­gic­al foot­print through a sus­tain­able life­style. Espe­cially in the area of liv­ing, a lot of CO₂ can be saved by using eco-friendly and recyc­lable fur­niture and fur­nish­ings. These can include floor cov­er­ings made of real wood, car­pets of sea­weed, lamp­shades of recycled paper or seat­ing fur­niture made of cork. For a green home, house­build­ers and ren­ov­at­ors should also pay atten­tion to the choice of mater­i­als under­neath walls and floors. In con­crete terms: all install­a­tion, seal­ing and insu­la­tion products should be free of harm­ful emis­sions and thus ensure a healthy home. These products can be eas­ily iden­ti­fied by the EMICODE^® seal on the pack­aging.

Three out of four Ger­mans con­sider a sus­tain­able life­style import­ant or even very import­ant. And almost half of them say that cli­mate pro­tec­tion and sus­tain­ab­il­ity are rel­ev­ant issues among their friends and acquaint­ances. This is the res­ult of a rep­res­ent­at­ive YouGov sur­vey com­mis­sioned in 2020 by Licht­Blick, Ger­many’s largest sup­pli­er of green elec­tri­city, on the occa­sion of the Earth Over­shoot Day (EOD).

In our own four walls, a cli­mate- and envir­on­ment­ally friendly life­style can be achieved, for example, by energy-sav­ing lamps, the eco­nom­ic­al use of elec­tri­city and heat­ing energy, and the pur­chase of fur­niture made from renew­able and recyc­lable raw mater­i­als.

When choos­ing the nat­ur­al mater­i­al wood, sus­tain­able liv­ing is guar­an­teed. Wood has a pos­it­ive CO₂ bal­ance, pos­sesses excel­lent insu­la­tion prop­er­ties and “breathes”, thus hav­ing a favor­able effect on the indoor cli­mate. But also nat­ur­al stone from loc­al sources has a small eco­lo­gic­al foot­print. Moreover, nat­ur­al stone is char­ac­ter­ized by good energy effi­ciency and thermal con­duct­iv­ity – an import­ant aspect when installing under­floor heat­ing.

But not only our home fur­nish­ings have a great poten­tial for sus­tain­ab­il­ity. It’s also the mater­i­als under­neath walls and floors that count: they should not have a neg­at­ive impact on our health and envir­on­ment. For this reas­on, all build­ing and install­a­tion mater­i­als – such as seal­ants, primers, damp­ing under­lays, joint seal­ants, adhes­ives, fillers, par­quet var­nishes or wall pan­els – should be very low in emis­sions.