About Green Designs and Supply

Green Designs and Supply (GDS) is a green design and supply business, specializing in products for interior spaces and think-tank services that serve to advance Sustainable Development.

Investing in green building and new technology requires the ability to bring meaningful value to your high-performance building project or sustainability initiative. GDS goes the extra mile to ensure you have an end product you can be proud of, whether it's a highly efficient new space or a fresh business approach, our services support large to mid-size businesses, architects, interior designers, property managers and business owners, including clients in the public and non-profit sectors. Our ecological and integrative approach for the projects take on, save our clients time and money by engaging us to work toward efficiency and accountability.

Technical expertise in Environmental Management is combined with cutting edge Sustainable Development practices to address the issues facing our clients today. GDS can examine client issues and identify solutions both responsively, and expeditiously. We stress the importance in the implementation of the most effective and tailored strategies to help you achieve the triple bottom-line with improvements in environmental quality, social responsibility and finance.

Programs and standards utilized by our professionals consist of the following:

1. For Buildings, Renovations and Homes:
1. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), established by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) out of Washington D.C.
2. Buildings Benchmarks and Beyond (B3), established by a team of experts in partnership with the University of Minnesota and the State of Minnesota.
3. Living Building Challenge version 2.0
4. 2030 Challenge (a new state requirement for all state funded buildings). The 2030 Challenge advocates for architects, designers and developers to meet an aggressive series of carbon emission and energy reduction goals.
5. Minnesota GreenStar Green Home Remodeling Program, established by a team of experts based in Minnesota regarding green building and residential remodeling. This program is expanding to various states surrounding Minnesota such as North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa.
6. REGREEN, established by the USGBC and the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).
7. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Energy Star Program.
8. National Association of Housing Builders (NAHB) Green Building Program.
9. Minnesota Green Communities


2. For Businesses:
1. Global Sustainability Reporting utilizing the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) G3 guidelines implemented by businesses like Canon, Brown-Forman and Time Warner.
2. LEAN Six Sigma
3. LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance
4. Natural Step Framework (NSF) developed out of Sweden
5. And various third-party rating work for manufacturers interesting in verifying their materials. (I.e. ISO 14000' series, Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) System™, etc. )

Contact us via email or call 651-603-1326 to determine which standard makes the most sense for your building project or sustainable business initiative.

Project examples include (but are not limited to):

• Corporate Sustainability Reporting utilizing the GRI G3 standards.
• Renewable Energy consultation for numerous clients around the United States.
• Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESA) for property owners and businesses throughout the Midwest.