Article: The greening of design: Jack Elliott believes interior designers can and should play a major role in preventing environmental degradation, that sustainability should be central to all design decisions.

It was summertime and Jack Elliott's interior design students had scattered across the country. Soon their e-mails started coming in. One after the next, they wrote in behalf of their summer employers asking for suppliers of green materials: low-VOC paint, high-efficiency lighting, third-party certified hardwoods, refurbished furniture. Natalie Morom '02, interning for an international corporation that manages thousands of square feet of office space in the Los Angeles area, wrote that she was helping the company develop guidelines for minimizing negative environmental impacts when they "fit out" new spaces for tenants.

"It was really amazing," recalls Elliott of ...

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