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The Value of Green Building

A recent Canadian study gives a boost to green building. The study highlights case studies in the U.S. and Canada that provide further evidence that it does pay to build green.

Here are a few success stories from the executive summary:

Pennsylvania Power and Light noted a conversion’s electricity savings amounted to a payback in 4.1 years with a 24% return on investment. However benefits from lower absenteeism and higher productivity meant a simple payback of just 69 days, a 540% return on investment.

At Wal-Mart’s Lawrence, Kansas, ‘Eco-Mart’ skylights were installed to reduce lighting costs. Employees asked to be moved to the daylit part because sales were higher there.

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Eco-Friendly Bamboo PC Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse

We were contacted this week by a company called PlayEngine telling us about a new type of LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse that combines technology with nature. Their product is great to look at, environmentally friendly and complies with CE and EU safety approvals.

Bamboo is a grass rather than wood, but it is harder than oak. The fibres are even stronger than wood and steel. The Bamboo used in these monitors is made from the Gramineae monocotyledonous plant. This type of plant is hard and panda friendly and as pandas only feed on soft bamboo there is no harm to wildlife.

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Green Awards Recognise Green Creativity

The last 18 months has brought about real change in the way that climate change and the need for sustainability is portrayed by the media, and from this has evolved the first Green Awards, to be held on 29 November 2006.

Traditionally some green activists have shunned the use of marketing as a consumerist tool, but as the world changes and the need to publicise the way to sustainable living becomes more urgent, advertising and marketing is becoming an important way to get the message across.

The Green Awards have been created to recognise the cream of creative work that illustrates and communicates , corporate social responsibility, sustainable development and ethical best practice.
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Latest Green Directory Listings

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Canada’s Plasco Energy Group are changing solid municipal waste into an energy-rich fuel using plasma gasification. This method is a safe way to dispose of hazardous waste and has been used for the past 20 years.

In Hong Kong, Biodera are making 100% organic and biodegradable vases and plant pots out of bamboo, straw and sugar cane.

allthingsgreen.net is a marketplace for products from small green businesses.

Find a green job with Guide Me Green.

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Bags of Waste

Ireland’s virtually got rid of them, South Africa has done it too, so it beggars belief that the UK is still using around 17 million plastic bags each year. The government has been slow to do anything about the plastic… Read More »Bags of Waste

Book Review: Recycle – The Essential Guide

Recycle – The Essential Guide contains anything and everything that you need to know about recycling, how and why it is done, how to do it, its success-rates and covers a number of fascinating case studies of how recycling is working all over the world.

As an introduction to the book, Lucy Siegle puts forward the case for recycling, explaining the philisophy and logic of recycling, and then plunges into the facts and figures, showing how we just aren’t doing enough yet.

The materials covered are paper, glass, metal, plastic, household waste and compost, going into the processes of recycling the specific material, showing what you can do and giving you instructions on how to make your own wormery to compost your kitchen waste.

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