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The Great FSC SFI Debate: A Primer (PART TWO)

On and off, too, SFI has variously dealt in greenwashing (ad campaigns here, letter of appeals there, more PR’s over there).  And because apparently mere peaceable wooing wasn’t enough, SFI has resorted to launching smear attacks on FSC.  And the…
neoli
August 31, 2012
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The Great FSC SFI Debate: A Primer

So the war in the woods rages on. For the average folk, this war in the woods might conjure images of those anthropomorphic trees in the Lord of the Rings trilogy—the Ents—the ones that got so enraged because of all…
neoli
August 29, 2012
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Eco-friendly Paint: Why You Should Paint Green

We’ve had it with toxic paints. Ever since lead got banned from household paints in 1978, we’ve always thought that it’d be a whole lot safer to breathe the air in our homes from then on. Then we caught whiff…
neoli
August 23, 2012
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China Smart Grid Wises Up On Energy Use

For the next four years, all eyes are on China as it embarks on its most ambitious project to date: the construction of a massive infrastructure meant to wire up the entire country in a smart grid. This radical switch…
neoli
August 19, 2012
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Notes about Dongtan Eco-city

I first read about Dongtan in Wired magazine back in 2007.  The article, Pop-Up Cities, detailed the ambitious plans for the world’s first eco-city eco-city to be built from scratch on the marshy island of Chongming somewhere in China.  It all…
neoli
August 12, 2012
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Eco-Wrapping: Sustainable, Green Packaging

There are very real reasons why we haven’t totally eliminated packaging from products.  Even if we aim for zero packaging or green packaging and declare less is more, there are some products that just need to be wrapped up in one…
neoli
August 9, 2012
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LEED Milestones: A Timeline

USGBC’s press release dated July 26, 2012 proudly declares that “the total footprint of commercial projects certified under its LEED green building program surpassed two billion square feet.”  No doubt that’s a lot of green, clean space, and so we…
neoli
July 31, 2012
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And Now… The Green Parking Lot

When we think of parking lots, we think of drab, boring, even ugly spaces permanently set in cement.  The fate of parking lots is to act as an intermediary: a place where we temporarily leave our cars so we can…
neoli
July 23, 2012