Envirology

1. Certified buildings look a paler shade of green
(News/Latest News)

Via stuff.co.nz, 20-05-2011 Green buildings in New Zealand may not be as green as they seem, with difficulties in predicting energy and water efficiencies meaning what looks green on paper might not ...

2. Kiwi brand toilet paper suspected in forest loss
(News/Latest News)

... toilet roll and tissue paper is sourced from Indonesia. Activists here accuse some toilet roll brands of "greenwashing" packaging to dupe conscientious shoppers. Kiwis spent $153 million on toilet ...

3. On-Site WInd Power Provides 100% of Power to Data Center
(News/News Archive)

From EcoGeek.org by Philip Proefrock 03-12-2009 We've heard of data centers that are running on green power, though these are often mostly done through buying energy credits for distant generating facilities. ...

4. Residential Rating Tool
(News/News Archive)

Work is now underway to develop a single rating tool to assess the comfort and performance of New Zealand's new and existing homes. A partnership has been formed between the New Zealand Green Building ...

5. NZGBC: Green Star - Products & Materials Changes
(Blog/Blog)

Below is an email I sent to the New Zealand Green Building Council as a reaction to their website Green Star NZ & Products/ Materials (http://www.nzgbc.org.nz/main/greenstar/elaboration/prodmaterial). ...

6. Is Green Really Green? - Material Selection In The Context Of Sustainable Buildings
(Material/Various)

...  Cradle-to-gate LCA accounts only up to this stage, as well as most green certification schemes. Some embodied energy calculations stop at this stage and do not take into account any in-service stage ...

7. New AKRIL Panel
(Blog/Blog)

... in NZ at all and will end up in the landfill. If the manufacturer has no product stewardship in place and does not take returns, you end up with waste. They also claim "Akril has also been awarded a green ...

8. A review of life-cycle assessment of windows
(Material/Windows)

... of all raw materials globally (Roodman and Lenssen 1995), while generating 40 percent of landfill materials (Bright et al. 2003). To reduce the environmental impacts of buildings, green building initiatives, ...

9. Green Star NZ Industrial Tool Launch
(News/News Archive)

Industrial and light commercial buildings can now achieve a Green Star rating with the release of the New Zealand Green Building Council's (NZGBC) new Green Star - Industrial PILOT rating tool. The ...