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Acts of Green in the Office: 43 Green Office Tips

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…

neoli2 October 2012

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Eco Apps for Your Smartphone

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,…

neoli29 September 2012

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Let There Be Cold Cathode Lighting…

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…

neoli25 September 2012

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LEED Points for Platinum: A Quick Profile of Green Buildings and Spaces

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…

neoli23 September 2012

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Green Building in the Third World Countries

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…

neoli18 September 2012

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Green Celebrations: Throwing an Eco Party.

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…

neoli10 September 2012

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The Great FSC SFI Debate: A Primer (PART TWO)

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…

neoli31 August 2012

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The Great FSC SFI Debate: A Primer

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…

neoli29 August 2012

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Eco-friendly Paint: Why You Should Paint Green

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…

neoli23 August 2012

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China Smart Grid Wises Up On Energy Use

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…

neoli19 August 2012