Tag: Sustainable Buildings
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EPDs – What’s new, what’s now, what’s next?
A recent shift to take a more holistic approach to green building has led to a new conversation – one that puts more emphasis on performance outcomes and asks, “Do we have the tools …
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Report: ‘Future Proofing Cities’
One of the defining challenges of our time is how to reconcile the need for rapid growth and poverty alleviation in many parts of the world with the need to avoid irreversible and costly environmental damage. This is a challenge that will be played out in the world’s cities. More than half of the…
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Overcoming scale and cost considerations for high-volume EPD implementation
Rick Betita, director of research at San Francisco-based Climate Earth, offered this presentation on “Overcoming Scale and Cost Considerations for High-Volume EPD Implementation” at the LCA XIII Conference held Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2013 in Orlando, FL. Related: “Understanding Environmental Product Declarations” by Central Concrete, Sustainable Industries, Sept. 10, 2013 “ABCs of EPDs” by Climate Earth’s…
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Contender without a chip
It was a typical morning. Coffee, computer, emails. I opened the Sustainable Industries Digest newsletter and saw the announcement for the first ever Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Ch…
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Portland LEED Platinum ecodistrict unveiled to public
Hassalo on Eighth A neighborhood development project in Portland’s Llloyd District – one of five “ecodistricts”pl…