Green building might not yet be as prevalent as we hope it would be. It’s not yet the rule instead of the exception, but it’s sure come a long way ever since it took off in the 1970s. We’re becoming…
neoliOctober 10, 2012
Last September 10, the Journal of Organizational Behavior published the findings of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability regarding employees in eco-friendly organizations. According to the study, employees are more 16{e3829ec1db02d54faaf9fa2de0d48db26af01d7a7944a63c3b26976124791cab} productive when their offices are engaged in green standards and…
neoliOctober 2, 2012
Whether you’re team Android or Team Apple, what matters is that we all enjoy our smartphones. Thanks to all the wonderful developers who constantly churn out dozens of variously-purposed apps every day, we’re more connected and updated than ever before,…
neoliSeptember 29, 2012
We’re used to LED being the embodiment of eco-friendliness. What could be greener than LED lamps with its 80{e3829ec1db02d54faaf9fa2de0d48db26af01d7a7944a63c3b26976124791cab} efficiency and long operational life? Last Christmas 2011, when Paris’ city officials lit up Champs Elysees with over a million LED…
neoliSeptember 25, 2012
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
Green building, for the most part, has been confined to First World nations, and for a good reason. Highly industrialized countries are owning up to their intensive energy use and massive carbon footprint, and if there’s anyone who should be…
neoliSeptember 18, 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
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