Tag: Sustainable Business

  • Modular Products from Reclaimed Wood: Pop-Up Office

    Built out of reclaimed wood palette boards, separate modules collectively form the modern work place, facilitating both individual work and collaboration. Our designers claim the result is a workspace that is simultaneously bare bones and tailored to the individual. In sinuous forms, the reclaimed boards morph from wall and floor planes into furniture elements.

  • Low-Carbon Hybrid Energy Systems: China’s Future Energy Solutions

    Coal dominated energy resources and consumption dominate the energy structure in China. This leads to the great challenges for China’s future energy development along with both growing demand for energy and high pressure for CO2 emissions reduction. From the earlier viewpoint, the reduction of CO2 emission could be reached by replacing fossil fuel by low-carbon…

  • Global Warming: Understanding the Causes & Effects

    This article on global warming has been reposted from Planetsave. Global Warming Effects and Causes: A Top 10 List (via Planetsave) One of the biggest issues facing us right now is global warming. Its effects on animals and on agriculture are indeed frightening, and the effects on the human population are even scarier. The facts about…

  • New Urbanism: America’s 10 Most Walkable Cities

    Rather than drive, think about walking more. A number of advocate groups celebrate a newfound urbanism developing throughout popular US cities. The following cities usher in a new-defined sense of urban living, enticing inhabitants to walk about more often.

  • Using Flow Meters To Improve Building Energy Efficiency

    We write a considerable amount of content concerning improving a building’s energy efficiency and how to manage it with a flow meter. This guest article from Sara Thompson provides some useful information on the subject. Buildings in the United States accounted for 41 percent of the nation’s energy consumption in 2010, 44 percent more than…