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Zero-Waste Mining: Australian Initiatives Reducing Environmental Impact

Date June 15, 2024 Category Sustainable Living

"Zero-Waste Mining: Australian Initiatives Reducing Environmental Impact"

G’day, eco-warriors and mining enthusiasts! Grab your reusable water bottles and put on your thinking hardhats, because we’re about to dive into a topic that’s more exciting than finding a gold nugget in your backyard – zero-waste mining.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Zero-waste mining? Isn’t that like a meat-eating vegetarian?” But hold your horses, because our clever Aussie miners are turning this seeming contradiction into reality.

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Sustainable Oral Care Habits: What You Should Know

Date May 28, 2024 Category Sustainable Living

With the recent changes in the education system which is more on sensitizing people on environmental issues has lead to creating  a more environmentally conscious generation.

Most people today have taken a firm stand on the environment hence more ecologically aware.

Reason to celebrate, right? You know taking part in sustainable habits in terms of energy or any type of plastic usage is becoming a number one choice for many individuals.  This, without a doubt, can be counted as a positive advantage to our society.

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Water Wise Plumbing

Date February 24, 2024 Category Recycling, Sustainable Living

Water Wise Plumbing

It’s a no-brainer that people are keen on water-wise plumbing in a dry continent like Australia.

Throw in some weather extremes along with El Nino, and we get even worse drought issues.

We asked plumbing experts Plumb It Right if you can save water and money by retrofitting changes to your house and habits.

Here’s a couple of ideas that they had to get you thinking:

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Everything Business Owners Need To Know About Their Solar Energy System Batteries

Date April 6, 2023 Category Sustainable Living

Everything Business Owners Need To Know About Their Solar Energy System Batteries

For business owners who have had the foresight and wisdom to have a solar energy system installed to lower their energy bills, you must understand the role of the solar batteries that are part of that solar system.

Whilst much of the attention rightly focuses on the role that solar panels play in generating electricity, the system would not be complete, as useful, or as efficient without its solar batteries.

In this blog post, we plan to outline everything you need to know about solar energy system batteries so that you understand their role, or if you are still contemplating what solar energy system to install for your business, to help you can make a more informed choice regarding your solar batteries.

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Top 3 Ways To Build An Eco-Friendly Garden

Date February 15, 2023 Category Sustainable Living

Eco-Friendly Garden

People throughout the world are becoming more environmentally conscious every single year. This has led to a rise in things like sustainable landscaping and eco-friendly gardening. Basically, practices like this refer to the construction of new gardens using environmentally friendly techniques.

These include things like reducing chemical and fertiliser use, planting native species and encouraging local wildlife to visit your garden. If you’re thinking about using eco friendly landscaping materials in your own environmentally friendly outdoor space, then keep reading! Here are my top 3 ways to create an eco-friendly garden:

  1. Plant Native Species

According to www.gardenspec.com.au planting native species is probably one of the best ways to make sure that your new garden is a environmentally friendly gardening. Try and choose species which grow in your local area, and try and plant a variety of different natives that complement each other.

Although they aren’t as commonly used in urban gardens as they probably should be, native plants come with a whole range of benefits, including:

  • They provide essential habitat for native wildlife like birds and small mammals.
  • If you choose natives from your area, they will be tough and suited to the climate. This means that they will need little maintenance.
  • In the same way, they will be suited to your soil type. Most Australian natives are very hardy, requiring little fertiliser or nasty chemicals.

If you’re not sure what sort of native species you should plant in your area, do some research online or head into your local nursery and speak to an expert.

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Why Eco-Friendly Cleaning is Becoming More Popular

Date September 23, 2022 Category Eco Products, Sustainable Living, Toxic Free

Eco-Friendly Cleaning

The cleaning aisle of any local supermarket looks far different than it used to. While plastic packaging is still prevalent, there has been a recent insurgence of sustainable cleaning products with gentle ingredients and environmentally-friendly packaging. So, why the change and why are people choosing eco-friendly products now?

People Are Becoming More Conscious

Market research from commercial cleaning experts shows that eco-friendly cleaning products are making up a larger share of all cleaning products every year. While a supply of sustainable cleaning products makes it easier for people to buy them, consciousness can also be a driving factor.

People are starting to realise that some of the ingredients in standard cleaning products can be harmful to health and can also cause skin irritation in those who are sensitive. Parabens, sodium hydroxide, phthalates, and ammonia, to name a few, are chemicals that people would like to avoid having in their cleaning products.

Manufacturers are Listening

Manufacturers continually put out surveys to the Australian public to find out what they want, need, and prefer. Otherwise, they could spend millions on product marketing and manufacturing, only to find out no one is buying or wanting what they are selling.

Manufacturers are listening. They are hearing their customers talking about their passion for cleaner oceans, safer homes, and sustainable products, and they are spending time developing something that people want.

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Why a Website is a Sustainable Way to Advertise Your Business

Date April 12, 2021 Category Sustainable Living

Advertise-Your-Business

No matter if you run your business from home or have a dedicated office or warehouse in some other location, advertising is needed so people can be made aware of what you do or offer that they may need. If people don’t know about you, they can’t become customers. Most advertising is costly, but when you advertise with a website, online business consultants otherwise known as a digital agency can use it to take your business to the next level.

Here are some of the advantages of advertising your presence online with your own website.

  • A website may cost more than an ad initially – and that is doubtful when talking large ads – but it is there all the time. Compare this with a newspaper or magazine ad that only lasts as long as that edition – rarely more than a week.
  • With a website, customers can contact you directly via an email link. They don’t even have to write down the email address to take home with them.
  • A website offers several different ways for contact: the email address, a phone number, a contact form on the website or a physical address.
  • You can have a great deal more information about your goods or services on the website than you could fit into a paper advertisement.
  • You can provide a way for customers to purchase your products from your website without being dependent on a bricks and mortar store, with its limited business hours.

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The Advantages Of Trex Decking

Date February 16, 2021 Category Renovating, Sustainable Living

The Advantages Of Trex Decking

Whether you are looking to transform your garden with a new decking area, or merely want to upgrade your current decking, one of the most effective ways of doing so is to use Trex decking.

Trex decking is a composite decking, which has grown in popularity in recent years with householders, and for many landscape design companies is often one of the first types of decking they recommend to their customers.

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How To Draw Your Landscape Design

Date December 8, 2020 Category Landscaping, Sustainable Living

How To Draw Your Landscape Design

Building a professional landscape design is a challenging task . Nevertheless, it can be a fulfilling experience if you choose to invest plenty of time and some energy backed up by some defined guidelines. One of them is to draw a basic landscape design, which can be done without advanced tools, software, or high-end drawing materials which require experienced landscapers.

Landscape design can be defined as a floor plan specially designed for outdoor spaces. It is used to construct a visual illustration of garden spaces with the help of scaled dimensions. The new renovation design includes several elements, including the natural ones as well as those that are manufactured.

The first step to create a landscape design, whether you’re thinking of designing a new one or improving the pre-existing landscape is to identify the inventory you already own. The simplest way to do this is to accurately record the location and size of the permanent features of the garden.

When you have identified the features of your site, it is time to draw a rough outline of it by taking a suitable sized notepad and sketching your outdoor space. Include everything you see especially those items that you cannot remove or are not planning to remove.

Do not forget to include buildings, walls, trees and shrubs, paved areas, pools, fences, patios, and every other permanent feature. Add sideways and walkways and sketch the property lines too. This is a point where you should not be too concerned about accuracy and instead focus on including every permanent feature.

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5 Signs Your Exhaust System Is More Polluting Than It Should Be

Date February 5, 2020 Category Sustainable Living

Newer cars have engines and exhaust systems that are designed to be friendly to the environment. This is accomplished primarily through the catalytic converter, which converts bad emissions and pollutants from your car exhaust system into compounds that are harmless to the environment.

When the catalytic converter starts to fail, or an exhaust leak occurs, this conversion stops, and the resulting pollution can be harmful to the environment as well as damaging to your vehicle. The following are 5 signs that your vehicle is causing harmful pollution due to a malfunctioning exhaust system.

  1. Smoke From The Exhaust

The most obvious and direct sign of harmful pollution is smoke emitting from your car’s tailpipe. A healthy exhaust system on modern vehicles rarely emits visible smoke, if ever. When smoke starts to come out, it’s usually as a sign of some sort of problem. This smoke might appear in three different colors.

White smoke is a sign of coolant leak within the engine. Blue smoke is a sign of an internal engine oil leak. Black smoke indicates that your car is burning up too much gasoline, possibly due to a malfunctioning fuel injection unit. Any of these different colored smoke emissions are creating harmful pollutants and they are sure fire sign it’s time to repair your vehicle.

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The Reasons Behind Sustainability Practices in Business

Date January 23, 2018 Category Sustainable Living

Sustainability Practices in Business

Many businesses such as SEO companies jump on the green bandwagon by following sustainability guidelines in an effort to attract more clients, but this does not always work. For a start, adopting environmentally friendly practices – while often simple – does take at least some effort. If you are only doing it to get more customers and this doesn’t happen in a way you can quantify you’ll lose interest. Once that happens employees cannot be expected to get behind you.

It is important to have at least some enthusiasm for the concept rather than just for the results in terms of the bottom line. People don’t like to change the way they do things unless there is a good reason that they can agree is important. While employees may be mildly interested in your bottom line they are often more interested in their own, or in the way any change will affect them personally.

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How Can a Villa Holiday be Eco Friendly?

Date January 12, 2018 Category Eco Design, Sustainable Living

Eco-freindly-holiday

A report this month from holiday experts Easy Villas says if you are truly into sustainable living you may wonder if a holiday in a villa is truly an eco-friendly choice. Even though this can seem like a costly choice and therefore not so very sustainable especially if you are on a budget, you have to look at it from a different perspective. A luxury holiday like can be eco friendly if you share it. Shared holidays are usually much more fun anyway.

Suppose you choose a 3 bedroom luxury villa and took 6 people – 2 to each room. Divide the nightly rental by 6 and it suddenly becomes very affordable. At that rate, the cost of the villa that is advertised at $240 per night, drops to a mere $40 per person. This is something you would never find in Australia, especially not for luxury accommodation. Even caravan parks cost more than that per night and they certainly don’t have luxurious accommodation.

What do you get for that? A lovely villa with lots of living space and a kitchen as well as the bedrooms. Having a kitchen means you can save on the cost of bought meals, especially breakfast. You get a pool that abuts the villa so you can virtually step off the porch into the pool. Many villas have private pools so you don’t have to share with anyone other than your group of friends.

There is luxury outdoor furniture you can use in between swimming in the pool and most villas are close to restaurants, spas and other luxuries that you would enjoy on such a holiday.

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8 Elements of Sustainable Landscape Design

Date August 31, 2017 Category Landscaping, Sustainable Living

Landscape-Design

When it comes to landscape design, not everyone understands how to incorporate sustainability. Sustainability is simply another word for environmentally friendly. Implementing it into your landscape design can mean that maintenance is reduced and the impact on the environment is lessened.  This is good news for your pocket and energy levels as well as for the planet.

So what exactly can we do to make our landscape design more sustainable? There are many elements to be considered.

  1. Make the area water wise. Part of this is planting natives or other plants that like the kind of dry weather that most of our country is blessed – or cursed – with. We don’t have to use a tonne of water every day to keep those lawns and gardens green and healthy. Growing shrubs and plants that prefer or tolerate dry weather means you use less water. This reduces your costs and the time taken to water the garden, not to mention the cost of replacing plants that die when water restrictions come into being.

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The Advantages of Sustainability for Fencing

Date July 5, 2017 Category Eco Design, Sustainable Living

Sustainable Fencing

Whether you’re a fan of sustainability or not, it is fairly obvious that practicing it in every area of life actually saves costs and often time, as well as the earth’s resources. For instance, sustainable fencing not only keeps you secure, but saves a lot of time in maintaining the fence and also the costs of doing so.

Fencing contractors may offer picket fence options and they do look nice, especially with certain styles of houses, but this kind of fence is not particularly sustainable because it requires regular painting to protect the timber from the weather and ensure it lasts a long time. Some people would consider it unsustainable simply because it uses timber, but timber is a natural and renewable resource that is often grown especially for such applications.

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Sustainable Landscape Gardening Ideas from Another Country

Date March 1, 2017 Category Sustainable Living

balinese-garden

If you are considering rejuvenating your garden area with sustainable and eco-friendly ideas but have planned a holiday overseas, it’s a good idea to wait until you come home before making the final plans.

Why?

According to the Bali experts and holiday booking company Easy Bali Villas, you will see many lovely landscaping ideas around villas, in other locations, and even in other countries. You may even see some garden hardware that you would just love to enhance your property with.

For instance, many people love Balinese garden statues and the way in which they are showcased in the gardens of that country. You can easily purchase this type of thing while in Bali and have it freighted home, because it will most likely to too heavy to carry or you can get your landscaper to source the material locally on your behalf if that is more convenient.

It is possible to get something truly unique that will make your lawns and gardens really stand out.

Many such ideas spring into being from the efforts of local people making the best of what they have, even though they and many of their friends are really not well off. This means that they are quite likely to be highly sustainable and even if you don’t purchase the actual products, you can get quite a few ideas that can be translated back into your on garden using products from your own country.

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12 Ways to Make Your New Home Sustainable

Date June 14, 2016 Category Sustainable Living

New-Home-Sustainable

Moving into a new home is a bit like starting your life anew. You have a new area to explore, new neighbours, new school for the children and a whole new home to make your own. While you are doing this, consider some of the many ways you can make your new home sustainable – environmentally friendly. If you were always going to start caring for the environment this is the ideal time to start.

There are many ways to make a new home eco-friendly and the good news is that it will often save your costs as well.  Here are some tips on how to make your new home sustainable.

  1. Make sure all the lighting is either CFL (compact fluorescent light) or Led lighting. Not only will it save you money, but it is healthier for you than incandescent light bulbs.

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How to be Environmentally Friendly with Equipment Hire

Date November 30, 2015 Category Eco Design, Sustainable Living

Equipment-Hire

When you need plant hire it is essential to choose the right size for the job. Should you hire equipment that is really too big, it is simply wasting money, as such equipment will be more expensive to hire than a smaller one.  In addition, it is not likely to do the job properly and can often make an unnecessary mess of the surrounding area, possibly destroying habitat that could have been saved.

Equipment hire can be unsustainable

If you choose equipment that is not large enough for the job, it will have to work much harder to accomplish what is needed, and then it will take a lot longer to get the job done. This is not sustainable either, for you or for the environment.  It will take more fuel and the equipment may even break down due to doing a job it was not meant to tackle.

So if you are interested in sustainability, it is wise to take care with your equipment hire plans so that you get only equipment appropriate for the job. If you are not sure, don’t be too proud to ask a professional for advice. Usually the ones that hire equipment will have a good idea of what is needed if you tell them a bit about the job. Be guided by their advice, since they are the experts.

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Sustainable Choices for Your Wedding

Date June 9, 2015 Category Sustainable Living

Eco Friendly Reception Venue

These days many people look for eco friendly ways to run their lives so they can conserve the earth’s resources and help make it a more pleasant and safer place to live with less pollution. But when it comes to a wedding there is so much to think about they are likely to forget about it. However, there are many sustainable choices that can be made for your wedding and Photo Booths are one of them.

At first glance it may be difficult to understand just how having a photo booth at your wedding reception can be considered friendly to Mother Earth, but it is. Remembering that every little bit counts towards the whole, so even if you think it is only a tiny drop in the bucket, it is still important.

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Colorbond Roofing and Sustainability

Date May 23, 2015 Category Recycling, Sustainable Living

Colorbond-Roofing

To understand whether Colorbond roofing is sustainable, you need to understand something of the steel making process. Traditionally speaking, steel making seems to have a poor reputation when it comes to sustainability, yet this is now undeserved. Steel is made from iron which occurs naturally in the earth. However, it is the process of converting it to steel that some people consider to be less than sustainable. But are they right? Consider these points.

Waste

The waste from making steel is mostly slag, a rock-like substance. Where many years ago this was just discarded, today it is all recycled and sold to construction companies that use it to make concrete. So, no waste.

Steel and water usage

Making steel takes a great deal of water to cool, de-scale and clean the steel, so this could be why many people feel that steel is not an environmentally friendly product. But these days, even though the water is polluted with various elements, most of this can be removed so that the water can be recycled and reused. In fact, 98% of the water used is able to be used again. The other 2% is lost through evaporation during cooling.

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The Advantages of Sustainable Security Fencing

Date July 16, 2014 Category Sustainable Living

Security-Fencing

Many security fences are made from steel palings that are attached to steel horizontals similar to the design of a timber paling fence. According to Divine Landscapes the difference may be that there is a concrete footing along the bottom so that no access can be gained by digging a hole under it. Security fencing of all kinds does an essential job of keeping assets safe and preventing harm from coming to people or animals.

Steel is sustainable

Steel fencing can be said to be sustainable or environmentally friendly because it can be reused and recycled. For instance, when wire fencing is no longer required around construction sites it can be taken down and used somewhere else. Steel also has a very long lifespan so it may also be taken down and re-used in another application. But even if it is not, it is so durable that it will last for many years. During this time there is really nothing in it that can cause harm to the environment.

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How to Stay Healthier as a Senior

Date May 24, 2014 Category Sustainable Living

Gardening

Having outdoor furniture to rest on is an ideal way for seniors to keep up their gardening habits. As you become older it is more difficult to keep up the amount of exercise you need to do to stay healthy and keep your muscle tone good. The trouble is that the less you do, the less you are able to do and the less you feel like trying to do it. That’s because once you stop it is not long before you become weaker – and the weaker you are the harder it is to enjoy exercise.

Benefits of gardening

It’s important to fight this feeling and keep on exercising and one way to do it is to have a garden you enjoy working in.  Gardening is great exercise with gentle bending and lifting and the benefits of fresh air and sunshine.  Many seniors get a great deal of pleasure from their gardens, but others find it more difficult to spend time working in the garden because they get tired and need to rest. Then once inside, they can’t be bothered going back out.

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How to Choose an Eco Friendly Reception Venue

Date May 9, 2014 Category Sustainable Living

Eco Friendly Wedding

When it comes to planning a wedding there are many decisions to be make and if just some of them are eco friendly it will certainly help the environment. If you are hiring a photo booth for a wedding reception will avoid the use of chemicals used in developing print photos and choosing organic flowers gives a boost to farms that insist on keeping the earth free of pesticides.

However, you can also choose an eco friendly reception venue and that doesn’t mean it has to be outside, although this too, is an option. So what about considering a venue for an inside reception that is a little out of the ordinary? For instance, some museums or art galleries allow the use of their building for other things such as receptions or conferences – and they may even provide catering.

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A Roadmap To Truly Green Practice

Date January 16, 2014 Category Sustainable Living

Green Practice
SPI provides companies who design, build and manage the built environment with a roadmap to truly green practice. The Certification program validates the capability of these companies to deliver consistent, high quality sustainability services as core to profitability. Companies in the Certification program generally fall into one of two camps:

 

  1. Companies seeking to validate their existing capability and to be recognized for their leadership.
  2. Companies aiming to accelerate the transformation of their practice to make sustainability service delivery a competitive advantage.

 
Accountability Without The Bureaucracy

The SPI Certification process generally follows 4 steps: 1) Registration , 2) Assessment, 3) Fill Gaps, and 4) Audit and Certification.

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Sustainable Properties of Aluminium Windows & Doors

Date October 31, 2013 Category Recycling, Sustainable Living

Aluminium-Windows-&-Doors

These days including aluminium windows and doors in your home is a popular way to let in light, the view and warmth from the sun. When considering the sustainable properties of this building material we have to take the two parts into consideration; the glass and the aluminium frame.

Glass is sustainable

Glass is considered environmentally friendly because even though it does not break down in landfill, it is 100% recyclable. That is not to say all glass waste is recycled, but it can be and probably will be one day when councils realise they need to provide bins for the different coloured glass to make recycling more viable.

Apart from that, glass lasts a long time and the sand it is made from is plentiful. It is an inert substance that is ideal for storing medications and food. So really, the advantages of glass outweigh the few disadvantages. So what about the aluminium frame?

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How Scaffolding can be Considered Sustainable

Date April 3, 2013 Category Sustainable Living

Scaffolding

Many products we use these days can be considered sustainable. That is, they don’t harm the environment when being made or when being used. Even some products that may take from the environment when being made by either using a lot of water or power, can still be sustainable if their use puts back more than they took out when being manufactured. Scaffolding comes under this heading.

Scaffolding metal gives back what it takes

Scaffolding is made from steel or an aluminium alloy that is strong and lightweight. While both metals take a lot of water and heat – and so power –  to make, they give back a great deal in both what they accomplish and how they increase safety. Scaffolding is absolutely essential when it comes to erecting buildings or maintaining plants & gardens. The job simply could not be done without scaffolding to climb up and support the workers, tools and building products.

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How is Professional Property Maintenance Sustainable?

Date January 3, 2013 Category Sustainable Living

Professional-Property

You may think that professional property maintenance has nothing to do with sustainability or being environmentally friendly, but this is not true. If you have a home in need of repair it is highly likely that something is being wasted. And when things don’t work properly around the home it can be very annoying and cause a lot of stress just because it makes life difficult.

For instance, if taps leak, water is certainly being wasted and you have to pay for it. If there are cracks around the doors that need sealing, power is wasted as your heat or cool air will leak out of the gaps, meaning you pay more for power. In addition, the air conditioner or heater are working harder and so will wear out more quickly.

Many people try to fix those seemingly small things themselves but this may not be the best way to save. Unless you do a good job on the repair, it can cost more by the time you get the professionals in to fix your mistakes and then to do the repair properly. It is far better to get the professionals in to start with. You stand to save time, stress and money.

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Sustainable Forestry and Timber Flooring

Date October 19, 2012 Category Sustainable Living

Timber Flooring

Timber flooring is low maintenance and durable, stylish and one of the most popular materials used by householders and business alike. Natural and elegant, timber flooring is recognized as both a hard-wearing and natural product suitable for just about any building type. You can have solid wood, engineered or laminate, all with a wide range of colours, textures and grain patterns as a result of the species of tree. You can’t beat that winning combination of aesthetics and sustainability.

It’s not only in the domestic area of homes and DIY that timber flooring is used, the commercial sector has gotten on board as well. Compared to carpet, it is hygienic and easy to clean. It is often specified in healthcare and educational environments.

Your Floor and the Environment

Because wood products use a lot less energy during production, the demand for goods produced responsibly is growing exponentially. Climate change and environmental concerns are making clients ask for products that have been responsibly sourced.

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How to Make Your Concrete Pool Sustainable

Date May 3, 2012 Category Sustainable Living

Concrete-Pool-Sustainable

In a dry continent such as Australia there are times when having a pool seems to be a total waste of water. However, once that concrete pool is in you can’t really take it out without it costing you even more so you might as well enjoy it. So is a concrete pool eco friendly in any way?

When you think of how long it will last with little or no maintenance, the answer must be yes. But don’t confuse maintaining the water quality with maintaining the actual concrete surface. The former must be done on a regular basis. That said, there are several ways in which you can make the pool – and the water in it – environmentally friendly.

  • Studies by the University of Maryland have proven that moss-filtered pools need much less chemicals than normal pools. In addition, a great deal of water is saved by not having to back-flush when cleaning the pool.

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Can Glass be Considered Eco Friendly?

Date March 22, 2012 Category Recycling, Sustainable Living

toughened-glass

If you are looking for eco friendly solutions for your home you really have to think about certain products and do a little research to find out if they are harmful to the environment or if they have negative effects on the people who use them. Glass is one of the products you might think at first is not eco friendly because it does not break down in the environment. But there is more to consider than just that fact.

Glass is durable

For a start, glass products can last for many years –  unless they get broken, of course. However, while some glass products may break easily, products where the glass is really thick, or that are made of toughened glass do not break easily, or at all in some cases, even if they were dropped. Pool fencing panels made from toughened glass are just one example.

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Is Security Fencing Sustainable?

Date January 22, 2012 Category Sustainable Living

fencing

If you are into finding eco friendly solutions to all of life’s problems you may wonder whether security fencing is sustainable. The trouble is sometimes you have to choose between keeping something or someone safe and helping the environment. However, in that such fencing is strong and durable, it could be said to be eco friendly.

Security fencing may be made from wire mesh or chain link, or it could be make entirely from steel posts and concrete. Neither has all that much impact on the environment when it is being created or when it is in use as a fence. And the good it does in keeping people or assets safe far outweighs any perceived environmental pollution.

Other options may be available, but they do not do quite the same job as traditional fencing.

  • Hedging takes a long time to grow and can easily be cut through or burned.
  • Fencing that uses bamboo can also be much less strong that steel or wire fencing. Plus, these days bamboo is being indiscriminately harvested to the ruination of many natural bamboo forests.
  • Even timber fencing that looks attractive can be cut down, burned or can rot. Plus, it may have to be treated with chemicals to prevent decay, making it unfriendly to the environment.

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Certification

Date December 19, 2011 Category Sustainable Living

Only the Best Organizations Can Deliver the Best Projects
Today, clients demand more than ever before. Whether their target is LEED, Net Zero, the Living Building Challenge, or making a 2030 Commitment – the stakes are high. Delivering “LEED on demand” is simply not enough anymore.
Differentiation is key. Everyone makes claims when it comes to sustainability and green building. Yet many companies struggle to maintain momentum, get stuck on particular challenges, or end up achieving “random acts of sustainability” but not the comprehensive integration needed to produce consistent and optimal results. This concern for delivering consistent, high quality sustainability services is why many building owners have endorsed the SPI Certification program.

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Forum Membership

Date September 1, 2009 Category Sustainable Living

Learn. Share. Network.

            And Help Green Our Communities.

                            Become a Forum Member Today!

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The USGBC Massachusetts Membership Forum works to enable individuals to participate in and support local USGBC activities across  Massachusetts. Join the Forum today to become connected to the fast-growing green economy, new career opportunities and cleaner, healthier, more energy-efficient communities. Revenue from membership enables The Forum to expand community-based programming as well as maintain proactive advocacy for green building policies at the city and state level.

The USGBC Forum Leadership Council recently approved a reduction in membership dues for the remainder of 2009. You can benefit by signing up as a member today for half price and get full membership benefits for the rest of the year. That’s right, half price!

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The USGBC Massachusetts Membership Forum

Date July 2, 2009 Category Sustainable Living

Who Is The Forum?

In mid 2007, The Green Roundtable supported the formation of the The USGBC Massachusetts Membership Forum (The Forum) which is the mechanism for the green building community to lead, engage and participate in green building activities locally.

The Forum, over 1000 members strong, is a member based community volunteer group, responsible for providing opportunities for individuals to participate in US Green Building Council (USGBC) and other green building educational, technical and advocacy activities while networking with other industry professionals and lay people. The Forum will be administered by The Green Roundtable which is the Massachusetts Affiliate to the USGBC, and the groups will collaborate in order to carry out transformative programming across the state.

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Boston Emerging Green Builders Summer Concert Series

Date June 13, 2009 Category Sustainable Living

On August 11th, Boston EGB is holding a fundraising event at the MILKY WAY LOUNGE in Jamaica Plain that will feature Abbie Barrett with special guests Lady Eagles. There will be a 50/50 raffle with multiple prizes. The cost to attend is $10 if you pre-pay or $15 at the door and the proceeds go to support the Boston Emerging Green Builders Natural Talent Design Competition (see below). Hope to see you there!

Where: 284 Amory Street (The Brewery Complex in Jamaica Plan). Stony Brook on the Orange Line is the closest T station.
Time: Event runs from 9-11 p.m.
Payment: Pay online here – $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

RSVP’s are encouraged – bostonegb@gmail.com with Milky Way Event in the subject, and your first and last name in the message.

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Community Corner

Date May 25, 2009 Category Sustainable Living

Interested in expanding your green building community networks?

Itching to do good work outside of your office setting?

Passionate about green concepts and want to get involved in community projects?

Look no further! There are plenty of interesting and meaningful projects as part of the USGBC Massachusetts Membership Forum activities in Boston and state wide. There are on-going as well as temporary projects that are in need of active and motivated volunteer involvement. Many of these projects are at a level where anyone can participate, meaning it doesn’t matter what skills you have, just choose which one you are most interested in and get involved today!

Active Projects

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