Envirology

1. Comparison of European LCA-based Building Assessment and Design Tools
(Reports/Life Cycle Assessment)

... basis of the greenhouse gas emission (expressed as a weight of equivalent CO2 emission) which is the only common indicator between all tools (except OGIP) from the same materials (e.g. brick) and from ...

2. 6 stars for the Civic Building, Christchurch, NZ
(News/News Archive)

... an embodied energy saving of 65,700 gigajoules - equivalent to a saving of 6440 tonnes of CO2 emissions or 12,800 return flights from Christchurch to Auckland. •   The target ...

3. The effect of Aerosol particles
(News/News Archive)

... about how well aerosols - which can be flushed out of the atmosphere by rain in a month or less - could fight long-lived warming effects from carbon dioxide. "The CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere ...

4. 5 Things to Watch for at the Copenhagen Climate-Change Conference
(News/News Archive)

... low expectations for the summit." 2. Will China and India follow? Historically, the U.S. may be the world's biggest carbon emitter — responsible for more than a quarter of the man-made CO2 ...

5. EGE Carpets and the new term "Thermal Recycling"
(Blog/Blog)

Recently, I had a read through EGE's website. Actually a quite good and informative site. EGE is a dutch carpet manufacturer. Since I had a couple of questions in terms of sustainability (sure I had), ...

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

... by the Centre for Building Performance Research, Victoria University of Wellington, Embodied Energy and CO2 Coefficients for NZ Building Materials, retrieved 2 March 2009 from http://www.victoria.ac.nz/cbpr/documents/pdfs/ee-co2_report_2003.pdf ...

7. Green Building Materials Market to Jump to $571B by 2013
(News/News Archive)

... greener products will often offset higher costs elsewhere in their production. Cement is a good example. Chemical reactions during its creation emit large amounts of CO2, and energy is needed to heat ...

8. Companies Not Prepared For Looming Carbon Regulation
(News/News Archive)

... big is the carbon market created just by companies on the S&P 500? The report found that if a carbon price of $28.24 were applied to each metric ton of CO2 emitted by companies in the S&P, as well as their ...

9. Aussies offer answer to toxic old TVs
(News/News Archive)

... lead to make a new screen, saved mining of new lead and reduced CO2 emissions from the recycling process (by lowering the melting temperature of the glass). Jo Knight of charitable consultancy Zero Waste ...

10. The Kyoto Protocol and New Zealand
(Blog/Blog)

It just happened that I had to make myself familar with the Kyoto Protocol and it's implications for New Zealand. If you are interested in it, a good resource is at The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ...

11. Global warming proof undeniable
(News/News Archive)

New Zealand Herald, Monday May 11, 2009 Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation in Geneva, responds to a recent article by Chris de Freitas questioning global warming. ...

12. Kiwis solve global warming riddle
(News/News Archive)

... by Victoria University Antarctic research centre director Tim Naish, found seas were warm enough to melt a large chunk of Antarctica's ice when atmospheric CO2 was only slightly higher than it is today. ...

13. Major Green Building Councils Move to Collaborate
(News/News Archive)

from Earth2Tech by Justin Moresco The construction industry may be global, but standards for green buildings are not. That’s starting to change, however, as this week green building councils in Australia, ...

14. Life Cycle of Window Materials - A Comperative Assessment
(Material/Windows)

... potential in grams CO2 equivalents AP - Acid potential in grams SO2 equivalents   Fig.1(b). production of secondary aluminium   Fig.2 LCA of an aluminium window 2.2 PVC Polyvinyl chloride ...