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GREEN

INNOVATIONS

OF THE YEAR
Sustainable
heat. The
Multi-position Intelli-Balance Boost 100 Energy
Vertical Air AWARDS
Handler Unit Recovery Ventilator (ERV)
from LG offers
homeowners a MANUFACTURER: PANASONIC
practical way 2021
to decrease The Intelli-Balance 100 by Panasonic is a unique energy recovery ventilator (ERV). It is
reliance on designed to be versatile, easy to install and energy efficient, benefiting consumers and
fossil builders alike. A key feature of the Intelli-Balance 100 is its ability to balance pressure in
fuel-based homes, with two electronically commutated motors (ECMs) providing customizable air
heating and flow to eliminate positive or negative pressure. The unit comes with a MERV 8 air filter
cooling. that prevents outdoor particulates, such as pollens and other biologic allergens, from
entering the home.
The Intelli-Balance 100 has been designed for ease of installation, able to be ceiling
or wall-mounted, and does not need to be connected to the central HVAC system or
condensation line. The unit also saves energy by running on a low CMF setting that
exhausts stale air and indoor pollutants, while bringing in clean, tempered outdoor air. Balancing act. Panasonic’s Intelli-Balance 100
The Intelli-Balance 100 delivers efficient whole-house ventilation, while meeting the energy recovery ventilator controls air pressure
ASHRAE 62.2 standards. inside the home to help keep allergens and other
More information: Intelli-Balance 100 particulates outdoors.

APPLIANCES

Natufia Kitchen Garden

MANUFACTURER: NATUFIA LABS
What happens when a home buying client wants space for
a garden, but the house doesn’t have a backyard? Estonia-
based Natufia Labs provides an answer with its Kitchen
Garden, a product that allows anyone to grow almost any
herbs, vegetables, and microgreens right in their kitchen
all year round.
Kitchen Garden, which the company says is the world’s
first fully integrated and automated hydroponic kitchen
garden, features technology that automatically maintains
the perfect light, temperature, water and pH level to ensure
optimal health for the plants. It also optimizes all minerals,
nutrients and vitamins. The Garden can produce enough
plants and herbs to ensure up to two harvests per day.
Since it is controlled indoors, homeowners do not need to
worry about pesticides, herbicides or fungicides, nor do they
face challenges from Mother Nature or changes of seasons.
They can practice a sustainable lifestyle and eat healthy
while minimizing the environmental impact of packaging,
Red light, green right. Natufia Labs’ Kitchen Garden offers a natural, farm-to-fork way for pollution, food miles, food waste and toxins.
people to grow healthy plants and herbs inside their homes. More information: Natufia Labs

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