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Author Message Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI Senior Member Username: rliebing Post Number: 664 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 12:34 pm:    Trying to assess specified products for one of our clients [have their own set of master specs]. Is there are good, comprehensive drectory listing "green" products? We are under a subsription service but the manufacturers in it list only a few of their products. When we take the added time to contact them direclty, we find a litany of other qualifiying products. Why are the manufacturers reluctant to list all of their products that comply? Frustrating! Nerve-racking and VERY difficult to understand Colin Gilboy Senior Member Username: colin Post Number: 102 Registered: 09-2005 Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 12:48 pm:    No good comprehensive directory. The task is just too big to do it for free, and the criteria for being "green" changes. There is a cost to the manufacturer - time, listing costs (a probable problem for CSI's Green Format), and product changes - that means the only reliable information source will be their website and even that is not always up-to-date. We are offering advertiser a link to a LEED statement they maintain on their website, and even simple page is not provided by many advertisers and non-advertisers. Anonymous   Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 04:34 pm:    There is a very good comprehensive directory called Green Spec, which you can get as a hard copy and also an electronic subscription that is updated regularly. Go to the web site buildinggreen.com and check it out. Joel McKellar, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP Intermediate Member Username: joelmckellar Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2006 Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 08:43 am:    Green spec is great for third party, unbiased info, and access to the Environmental Building News articles is well worth it. It's also very easy to search (searchable by masterformat and LEED credits) The directory falls down though when it comes to giving hard numbers (recycled content, renewable content, etc.). It's the best I've seen though, and worth the money. I use it at least twice a week.