/topics/green_building
/topics/green_building

Sign Up for Free NewsLetter

Turn Your Desktop Green

Download EcoWidget

Featured Affiliate

E Magazine

View all the featured contributing content by this source

/topics/green_building

Buy Beef
Sourcing only the finest Highland cattle, we can guarantee you the tastiest beef! Click here to order.

Green Building

A hard look at hardwood consumption
May 2, 2008 08:34 AM - , The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Many people enjoy using tropical hardwoods as garden furniture and parquet floors, but few consumers make the link with global warming. But the link is there, because some products are made from timber from areas like the Amazon and Southeast Asia that contain vast quantities of trees that absorb carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, but where the overall number of trees is diminishing under pressure from unscrupulous loggers.

» Read Full Article
» Read More from Ecosystems Topic

ADVERTISEMENT

/topics/green_building

On the Horizon and Here Today: LED Alternatives to Linear Fluorescents
March 4, 2008 09:08 AM - Glenn Hasek, Green Lodging News

NATIONAL REPORT—In meeting rooms, back of house and other areas of your hotel, chances are great that you are using T-12 fluorescent lamps or the more efficient T-8s to illuminate large spaces. At least two companies—ilumisys, Inc. in Troy, Mich., and LEDdynamics, Inc. in Randolph, Vt.—are trying to replace these linear fluorescents with LED alternatives that are more energy efficient and safer for the environment. Fluorescent tubes include mercury and despite recycling efforts, 500 million to 600 million lamps end up in landfills each year. LED alternatives do not include mercury.

» Read Full Article
» Read More from Business Topic

SPOTLIGHT

Eco Homes Show Will Help Build Homes for the 21st Century

, Green Progress
With the UK Government's code for Sustainable Housing aiming for all new houses built from 2016 onwards to be carbon neutral, house builders and designers have less than eight years to grapple with the technologies that will make this possible. One of the best places to find out what new green building products and services are available and how they can be cost--effectively integrated into building projects will be The Eco Homes Show, part of The National Homebuilding & Renovating Show at the NEC from 10-13 April.
» Read Full Spotlight
» Read More Spotlights

COMMENTARY

What's the Buzz About Bamboo?

, Keep Green Going
Bamboo this, bamboo that - What’s up with the bamboo buzz? Technically classified as a “weed”, the bamboo plant is strong, renewable and inexpensive. There are nearly 1000 different species of bamboo and it can be grown in almost any moderate climate. Bamboo can grow 20 meters in less than 60 days.
» Read Full Commentary
» Read More Commentary

Member Press Releases

More Press Releases

Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

2007. Copyright Environmental News Network