We stumbled across Green Pan the other day, and were intrigued. So we did some research, and, well, are letting someone else tell you about them.

As written in Plenty Magazine, one of the reasons Greenpan is, well, green, is that it’s 100 percent PFOA- and PTFE-free.

Traditional non-stick pans like Dupont’s Teflon-based nonstick cookware use PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), which is a synthetic chemical that’s used to manufacture PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene). PFOA is infamous for its amazing ability to kill birds when its fumes are released into the air. It’s also been shown to cause health problems in people. This alarming news is probably why Dupont recently announced its plans to phase out PFOAs in its cookware by 2015.

Greenpan also claims (and this checks out, too, as far as we can tell) that production of Thermolon-coated cookware releases 60% fewer greenhouse gases than does production of traditional PTFE-based non-stick technology. That’s because it cures more quickly, and at lower temperatures.

Hmmm, this is worth further investigation.