Posts for nature

PCC Sound Consumer, by Trudy Bialic, editor, January 2006 (January 2006) — For convenience, few kitchen tools can compare to the microwave oven. An estimated 90 percent of American households have one and most of us have used a microwave to reheat leftovers. From time…

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 about their exact effect.

I recently stubled across my first bottle of PLA filled with NZ water. It stated Ingeo on a label.

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 who wrote it to apologise and promise to be more careful. The errors are in a 2007…

Via Time.com, by Bryan Walsh, 07-12-2009 Tens of thousands of diplomats, activists, journalists, businesspeople, celebrities and assorted green hangers-on have descended on the Danish capital of Copenhagen for the U.N.’s annual climate-change summit starting on Monday. Officially, the meeting is known as the 15th Conference…

Insulation of buildings is an important technology for saving heating energy and for a sustainable development. The results of a comparative LCA study of three insulation products applied for roof insulation are summarised in two parts. The products selected are based on HT stone wool…

Below is an email I sent to EcoStore today. I am still concerned about their plastic packaging and it unfortunately hasn’t chnaged over the years. I have asked about refilling already in the store about two years ago and was told that there were no…

From The Office Of The Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee, Article posted on Thursday, August, 13th, 2009 at 10:04 am The world’s climate is influenced by a number of factors interacting in very complex and not entirely understood ways. Over the last million years there…

Most modern designs consider energy as the most important factor in the sustainability of buildings; however, it is not only the energy a building consumes that impacts on its overall sustainability. Materials form a very important factor when analyzing their embodied energy, reusability, recyclability, and…

Today I got an email in from a manufacturer of a new plastic wall panel: AKRIL.I had a look at the website at www.akril.co.nz.