It saves consumers money -- perhaps hundreds of dollars off their utility bills each year -- and it reduces our energy consumption in the process.

WHITEHOUSE: Retrofitting for Energy Efficiency and New Jobs

For Interface, the EPD process has encouraged it to reduce energy and material consumption (particularly oil), waste generation and emissions.

FORBES: Can Labeling Drive Products to Be Environmentally 'Nutritious'?

Our consumption of energy has been steadily growing, the costs are increasing, and in the process we are depleting vast amounts of fossil fuel reserves and building up dangerous levels of carbon gases and pollutants.

FORBES: Suvi Sharma