For many people, when doing a kitchen renovation, the dream is to have marble or granite countertops. But many exotic stones come from faraway places like Italy and South America, where these very heavy slabs have to be trucked, shipped and re-trucked. All this transportation burns up a tremendous amount of fossil fuel (not to mention the environmental devastation to the areas the solid surfaces are mined from). If you must have stone countertops, think local. Look for locally quarried stone that came from your state; not only is it more carbon-neutral, since it doesn’t have to travel far distances, but it’s usually cheaper, too.
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