Say what you want about the ongoing arms race in LEED points, but there will always be a good and valid reason why these buildings and spaces are awarded with a Platinum rating, the highest credential given by USGBC. Take…
neoliSeptember 23, 2012
Your office has green walls and green roofs and bright green spaces. Yay! But the greening shouldn’t stop there. Employees and practically everyone in the office need greening up too, and what better way to instill green attitudes in everyone…
neoliSeptember 10, 2012
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…
neoliAugust 31, 2012
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…
neoliAugust 29, 2012
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…
neoliAugust 23, 2012
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…
neoliAugust 19, 2012
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…
neoliAugust 12, 2012
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…
neoliAugust 9, 2012
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…
neoliJuly 31, 2012
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