Going Net Positive: Mohawk Group’s Lichen Earns “Living Product” Certification

by Robert Beck | August 7th, 2017

At NeoCon 2017 Mohawk Group was awarded a Best of NeoCon Gold for its new product, the Lichen Collection. Now, through a third party certification process, it has received “Petal Certification” under the Living Product Challenge (LPC) of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). The LPC does for products what the older and more famous Living Building Challenge does for buildings. It attempts to change the paradigm from trying to make products “less bad” to creating products that have a positive impact. The Living Product Challenge contains seven performance categories called Petals. They are Place, Water, Energy, Health and Happiness, Materials, Equity and Beauty. Petals are subdivided into a total of 20 Imperatives, each of which focuses on a specific sphere of influence. A product needn’t achieve the requirements of all 20 imperatives to begin to be recognized as having a positive impact, but it must achieve certification in all …