Quote Originally Posted by 7rider View Post
Honestly, I'm not sure why, either. DH and I were watching a show on the local home improvement channel recently ("Love it or List it" I think), where the whiny couple who just absolutely had to be green about everything absolutely did NOT want granite. You would think from the way the woman reacted, she was being poked with a cattle prod. Anyway, Yeah, the planet is mostly rock - but it is heavy to cut and ship around the globe. Maybe that was her gripe? I dunno.
Production process (quarrying) as well as transportation, according to this article:

http://greenhomeguide.com/know-how/a...he-environment

I watched Love it or List it once and wanted to throw things at every person on the show. Never again.