A couple of months ago, I made a trip down to Home Depot’s corporate headquarters in Atlanta, GA for business.

When I was there, I noticed that they had all sorts of signs for “Eco Options“.

When I got back from the trip, I looked on their site and found some more information about this and had intended to write a blog entry about this.

That kinda fell by the wayside until today.

Turns out, I probably had got an sneak preview of what was coming.

Today, Home Depot issued a press release announcing their Eco Options and the New York Times published an article about them.

I haven’t yet been to an actual Home Depot store to see how this will work, but I applaud Home Depot for the effort. In principal, I support anything that stores can do to help their customers make educated and informed decisions about the environmental impact of their decisions.

Another interesting example of a company providing good information to their customers is the British supermarket Tesco who will be labeling the carbon footprint of every product it sells.

Hopefully getting this information out in front of consumers will help them make the right choice.