embodied energy
Now You Can ‘Go Green’ Even In Death With An ‘Eco-Coffin’
So you love living the green life. Why not have the green death as well with an environmentally friendly eco-coffin?
San Jose Plans To Ban Plastic And Paper Bags
With San Francisco being the first city in the country to ban plastic bag use outright, San Jose is trying to one-up its neighbor by banning paper bags as well as plastic.
U.K. Start-up Developing Carbon Absorbing ‘Green’ Cement
Novacem is a U.K. start-up company currently developing a ‘green’ cement that will actually absorb more CO2 over its lifetime than its manufacture produces.
Rice Concrete Helps Reduce Carbon Emissions?
Rice husks contain high amounts of silicon dioxide which is an essential component in concrete. Now researchers in Plano, Texas have developed a method that turns rice husks into a raw material that can be used as a partial replacement for the cement content in concrete. But have they merely created a process for a raw material that’s not even needed?
PEG (Personal Energy Generator): Walking Your Way To A Charged iPhone
There are quite a few ‘green’ mobile electronic charging devices out on the market right now marketed as being clean renewable charger alternatives. Hardly any do their thing without some type of user interaction. The nPower PEG is a ‘hands off’ device that charges while you move. But are you really saving energy?
VAST Composite Pavers Offer Numerous Environmental And Practical Benefits
With each successive innovation or improvement surpassing it’s non-sustainable, or pseudo-sustainable, predecessor, green building product solutions seem to be getting turned out every other minute these days. While the bleeding edge of many of these innovations and advancements offer real hope for the future of sustainable building design and construction, many of these products’ environmental benefits, and applications, are very narrow, undefined, and sometimes, even counterintuitive to their intended purpose. VAST has a new product that seems to address all these issues and more.
Waste Management/DuPont Tyvek Recycling Kit.
DuPont and Waste Management have come together to offer a new ‘recycling kit’ for all Tyvek materials. Made of industry’s most abundantly used plastic, polyethylene PETE, the disposal and/or reuse of Tyvek products certainly deserves to be addressed. But does this new venture, which charges the consumer with the cost and responsibility to return material, really do more harm than good?
