Sustainable thinking has led us to create a market-wide recycling program for our memo sampling. It has engaged our corporate headquarters in the MillionTreesNYC project, in a plastic bottle recycling effort that will feed PET back into our recycled polyester fabrics, and in a decision to carbon off-set the energy use of our corporate headquarters by purchasing renewable energy credits. Our contract with Renewable Choice Energy will prevent almost 1 million pounds of CO2 pollution annually.
Our additional goals involve moving many of these efforts out into other Designtex locations and measuring our progress in both recycling and conservation.
A new methodology, Environmental Design captures this mission with clarity and insight. It shifts our focus from trying to identify sustainability in a material to a broader view of locating sustainable potential along a product’s life cycle. ED illuminates our responsibility to design features into each product that impart greater environmental potential from the beginning. ED also spotlights opportunities to engage with partners in manufacturing, shipping, and recycling to preserve those features for eventual reutilization.
As we seek to inspire sustainable awareness in others, we’ve learned to expect the reciprocal; it is others who turn around and inspire us. As we have put this vision and mission to work throughout our organization, we’ve uncovered some inspiring individuals in our own ranks. It’s clear that the success of our corporate environmental strategy will depend on the individuals who will water our trees, recycle our bottles, restock our sampling, monitor our paper use, and call for continued carbon off-sets.
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"Green" manufacturing at it's finest
From start to finish, every Lone Meadow chair reflects our commitment to responsible manufacturing practices, where we seek a balance with nature and global realities. We call it the 100% solution:
A full 100% of the hardwoods are from SFI certified North American forests, and 100% finished using water-based materials with the lowest VOC emissions in hospitality. 100% of our seating is upholstered using Designtex sustainable fabrics, commercial textiles with cradle-to-cradle environmental properties. And the cushioning, our exclusive, recycled Lone Meadow Integrity + Foam system (CA117 or CA133 compliant), for 100% comfort.
What's more, each and every piece of Lone Meadow furniture is made in our factory right here in the U.S.A. It's one step on our path to tomorrow. Another step involves The Nature Conservancy; an organization dedicated to enhancing and preserving our global environment, to whom we donate a portion of all profits
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Therese Virserius draws on her diverse cultural experience to create exciting environments that explore color, texture and shape all within the context of a functional and dramatic hospitality, commercial or residential space. As founder and owner of Therese Virserius Design, she sets the tone of the company and oversees a talented team of designers who execute her vision daily. Therese’s design philosophy focuses on the energy created between the juxtaposition of hard and soft materials, masculine and feminine fabrics and contrasting ideas inspired by art as well as nature. She enjoys using a playful element of subtle surprise in all of her designs and her interior work, much like her art, often reflects layers of composition to be explored as opposed to one-dimensional, stark representations.
Angelo Sosa, an inventive chef with uncompromising standards, brings forth his own style for the next culinary revolution. 
Clifford R. Tuttle heads the interior design practice in the Washington, DC, office of FORRESTPERKINS, having returned to the United States after six years in Singapore as president of Concept Design Group, Honolulu, and Concept International Design Group, Singapore. Mr. Tuttle's wide range of experience in the hospitality design profession includes the design and management of projects in the United States and Southeast Asia. Active in numerous professional organi-zations, the firm's Senior Vice President is involved in the American Society of Interior Designers, having served as President of the Hawaii Chapter. He also held membership in the International Interior Design Association, the Interior Designer’s Association of Singapore, and the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Tuttle has also served on the
