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Exclusively Blog’s main office is located in a 400,000+ square foot manufacturing facility outside Chicago. You may be asking yourself, why do I care about this? Well, you may not but I can tell you why it pertains to our Sustainable Style blog series. The facility has in the process of undergoing a major eco-transformation including new energy efficient lighting, more robust recycling effort, etc.. We are working hard to make this a eco-friendly facility. So, thinking outside the box we thought it might be interesting to cover the roof of our 400k square foot facility with solar panels. We are looking at a bunch of different options and this is how I came across Grow. (I will keep you updated on our progress)

Grow, from SMIT, is pretty much what we have all be waiting for when it comes to Sustainable Style. Integrating real attractive solutions to energy efficiency and solar energy. It is more of a museum piece right now featured at MoMA, but it is a taste of some of the great things to come. It was designed to simulate ivy that would grow on the side of a home. I am sure that an actual version that you can go to Home Depot and purchase is a long way out but it is fun to imagine.

Here is what Grow’s site says about its first product plan:

SMIT’s first product will be a solar-only version of GROW. The modular ‘panel’ will be approximately 4′ X 8′ and will be able to be installed on most residential building types. It will use standard grid-tie hardware that will allow easy integration with the typical building’s existing electrical service provider. More information will be available soon, please contact us for further details.