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FSC Certified Lumber
While looking for materials to build a dining room table for my family I can across this FSC certified lumber at Home Depot. The FSC certifies companies that harvest their forests in a responsible manner. Most likely, these companies harvest their wood by selecting certain trees in the forest rather than clear cutting. This allows […]
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Tags: certified, design, FSC, FSC certification, green, Home Depot, LEED, Lumber, Nmadsen, sustainability, Sustainable, Wood
PLA Not so Sustainable
I met Emily Pilloton when she visited Auburn University on her trip around the country speaking about Project H Design. This meeting prompted me to take a look at her book and while flipping through Design Revolution I came across a section that outlined why PLA wasn’t as good or sustainable as I previously suspected. […]
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Tags: compost, compostable, Design Revolution, Emily Pilloton, green, Pilloton, PLA, Sustainable
Cradle to Cradle – A Key Point
I just finished reading Cradle to Cradle, a well-known environmental book that focuses on sustainable design and how it can be accomplished. Instead of giving a brief synopses Im going to share a key point in the book that I found particularly interesting. The idea of reusing technical nutrients– McDonough & Braungart suggest a way […]
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Tags: architecture, book, Braungart, C2C, cradle, cradle to cradle, design, environmental, green, green architecture, green design, McDonough, Michael Braungart, plastic book, sustainability, Sustainable, technical nutrient, William McDonough
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