I am redoing three kitchen's countertops and am looking for ideas for do-it-yourself, reasonably priced and low maintenance green materials.  Any ideas?

Check out: http://www.paperstoneproducts.com/
especially friendly for DIY.

There's a waste mgmt guy in mt pleasant, sc that tumbles broken glass and uses it as tile. 

While trying to find a link for that, I came across someone who used tumbled sea glass. 

Either sound pretty and are green.

I'm thinking of making some out of laminated recycled fir/larch 2x4s. Use it as a big cutting board - gives it good character. You can refinish it over and over with oil, and when you're tired of it, you can burn it for heat, compost it, or whatever. Can't get much greener than that.

Hi! I think this site could help you, Green Countertops ... You can also find different kinds of kitchen countertops there.. I knew that site from a friend because I was looking for a good countertop design, and you know what, it truly helped me. :)

I used slate chalkboards that I removed from a school that was being demolished. The slate can be cut with a diamond wet saw or a grinder with a stone cutting wheel. I put a stone sealer on that gave the slate a deep black egg shell finish. The counter tops have been down for 6 years and are holding up great.

The greenest thing is to keep your old counter tops. If it is worn, there is paint for that. A lot of the above suggestions really are not green IMO. I am all for green but only if it is true green. Not tossing you old one into the trash is one of the greenest things. I know a lot of times it is not feasible and then just go with something that will last a long time. The longer it lasts, the greener it is.

Are you looking to refinish the current counter tops or completely replace them. If keeping the current ones they can be tiled over, or you can give them a faux granite finish with paint and polyurethane, or you can cover them with stainless steel or zinc - all DIY. Rotometals sells zinc sheets online, and if you search online you can find stainless steel sheets also.

-Rosalinda