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...made a small batch of soap. It wasn't until he used a spare bar from his backpack to take a memorable outdoor shower in Goa, India, that the inspiration for Pangea struck. Back in the U.S., he started a business that has expanded to a 10,000-sq.-ft. factory and sales at Whole Foods Markets across the country. Onysko is passionate about the impact of grooming habits on the environment (the average shower gel takes 200 to 300 years to biodegrade once it's rinsed down the drain...
...BREAK The longtime businessman met company founders Matthew and Alison Freeman-Gleason in 1996. At the time, they had a 12,000-sq.-ft. showroom in downtown Seattle. Taylor, who predicted that home building was going green, jumped on board in 2000 to help expand their vision...
CLAIM TO FAME As CEO of Built-e Inc., Taylor has presided over the growth of Seattle's Environmental Home Center, a one-stop shop for building an eco-friendly house. The 30,000-sq.-ft. space functions as a warehouse, showroom and design center. "We marry good information about a product with convenient access to it," says Taylor. "It's all under one roof in a high-style setting." Some of the sustainable products for sale include 100% organic-wool carpets, nontoxic paints and home-insulation units made from recycled denim...
...sq.-ft. house that they completed last year has three bedrooms, 2½ baths and an open-plan kitchen-dining-living area with a cathedral ceiling. It also has a pair of stepped roofs aligned in parallel curves, each serving a different environmental purpose. The lower roof is covered in solar panels. The notoriously cloudy coast of Oregon might not seem like the ideal place to draw power from the sun, but because of a combination of serious insulation with sophisticated systems for generating heat and storing it in geothermal wells?basically warm holes in the ground?over the course...
...year-old store at Whole Foods' home base in Austin?an 80,000-sq.-ft. flagship and the chief laboratory for new ideas?is designated a "happy" store. All 600 employees attend monthly meetings, and everyone has a say. "We talk a lot about choosing our attitudes and what we're going to bring to the table that day," says store team leader Seth Stutzman...