Envirology

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

... global warming potential for the FUTURA house when constructed from different materials. Explanation of the legend Wooden construction: Complete building with a timber frame support structure Brick ...

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

... global demand for pulp and paper, as well as palm oil, is to blame for the loss of more than 65% of original forest in Indonesia's Riau Province, the country's top paper producer. The World ...

3. Paper Mate Debuts First Biodegradable Pen
(News/Latest News)

... simple, affordable ways to incorporate greener practices into everyday activities at school, home, or the office," said Bill Mullenix, President of Newell Rubbermaid's Everyday Writing global ...

4. The Proven Dangers of Microwaves
(Reports/Building Biology)

... pursuits of modern mankind. He worked as a food scientist for several years with one of the many major Swiss food companies that do business on a global scale. A few years ago, he was fired from his job ...

5. The Hidden Hazards Of Microwave Cooking
(Reports/Building Biology)

... for many years with one of the major Swiss food companies that do business on a global scale. A few years ago, he was fired from his job for questioning certain processing procedures that denatured the ...

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

Via The New Zealand Herald, by Eloise Gibson, 15/02/2010 Car and smoke-stack pollutants shunned since the 1970s for causing acid rain may be taking some heat out of global warming, but there is uncertainty ...

7. Apology for errors in key climate change report
(News/News Archive)

Via stuff.co.nz, 22/01/2010 Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists ...

8. Going Greener by Going Bigger: Does it Work?
(News/News Archive)

... to mention an unstable global climate. This story re-plays itself over and over again. Technology lets us build more efficient televisions, so we make them gigantic. Technology allows us to build ...

9. 5 Things to Watch for at the Copenhagen Climate-Change Conference
(News/News Archive)

... on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — but it might be more accurately called the Last Chance. To advocates of action on global warming, the Copenhagen summit represents the last, best chance to slow and ...

10. A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Building Insulation Products
(Reports/Life Cycle Assessment)

... representing more traditional insulation materials. In general, paper wool has the lowest global and regional environmental impacts, and flax insulation the highest, with stone wool falling in between. ...

11. more on CFLs
(Comments/Comments)

... and the dirty power a compact fluorescent creates when in use. Multiply that by one billion CFL’s thrown into landfills worldwide and we have a perfect recipe for a global environmental catastrophe. Meanwhile ...

12. Climate change - Office of the Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee
(Reports/Climate Change)

... and in the tilt of the earth’s axis of rotation. These changes have led to periods of global warming and global cooling – the more recent of the latter are termed the Ice Ages. There are also shorter-term ...

13. The Age of Stupid
(News/News Archive)

... watches 'archive' footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance? Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, ...

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

... Impact of Claddings with 8000km Transport for Overseas material (Cedar weatherboard) added In terms of fossil fuel depletion and global warming potential (GWPix), the cedar performs better as long ...

15. San Francisco Brings Recycling to the iPhone
(News/News Archive)

... for the Kyoto protocol, he created a local global climate action plans to roll back emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2012--twice as ambitious as the Kyoto Protocol. And San Francisco recently converted ...

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

... for the growing green building market. A report published this week by NextGen Research estimates the global green building materials market will grow about 5 percent per year to reach $571 billion by ...

17. Business wary of green practices that hurt profits
(News/News Archive)

... said no and 9 per cent did not know. That put Australia in 15th place on the global league table. Grant Thornton New Zealand spokesman Peter Sherwin said the result made this country's environmental ...

18. Japanese Convenience Stores Look to Introduce PV Systems, Electric Cars
(News/News Archive)

... of its measures against global warming. The numerical targets disclosed this time are based on the plans of 12 major convenience chains that are affiliated with JFA. Solar power generating systems ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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. ...