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Eden Environments Recognized by CORP! Magazine as Green Industry Innovator
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. (February 2, 2010)—Eden Environments, west Michigan’s sustainable design center, received a 2010 Going Green Award from Corp! Magazine.
Eden Environments’ commitment to environmentally-friendly practices, coupled with its contributions to technologies, products, and services that promote sustainable business strategies led to the company’s recognition as a Green Industry Innovator. Honorees were selected from Michigan-based businesses and nonprofit organizations in one of the three following categories:
· Green Initiative Champion
· Green Industry Innovator
· Green Organization
A licensed architect and a LEED Accredited Professional with two decades of design experience and an entrepreneurial spirit, Denise Hopkins, opened Eden Environments (www.EdenEnvironments.com), west Michigan’s first sustainable design center in 2008.
Eden is the sustainable design resource for businesses and homeowners across Michigan and the United States. Their expertise in architecture, interiors, and landscape design will enhance your physical and emotional well being, improve your indoor air quality, and lower your costs for energy, health care, insurance, and maintenance. In addition to design consultation, clients will find beautiful sustainable choices for insulation, siding, boards, flooring, no-VOC paints, counters, cabinets, and furnishings – virtually everything for the built environment. Eden Environments thoroughly researches their recommended design solutions and products—saving their clients time and effort. Eden Environments was also named Best Small Business in 2008 by the Michigan Small Business Technology Development Center (MI-SBTDC) Region 7 and received Business Review West Michigan’s Inaugural Green Award for Small Business in 2009. Eden Environments is located at 5747 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546.
Mission: To transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, in a way that improves the quality of life in West Michigan.