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How Good Is "Carbon Neutral" Furniture?

Dwell

According to the EPA , an estimated nine million tons of furniture were sent to landfills in 2018. Companies don’t account for carbon released as those flora die and decay, releasing such "offset" carbon back into the environment. We continue to look for the easy out," Addington says. "We We don’t think about the web of impacts.

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Buildings With Less Embodied Carbon (Part 2 of Sustainability in Construction)

Community Architect

With the 2030 Palette, designers will have the tools they need to design adaptive, resilient, and Zero Net Carbon built environments. According to a 2017 United Nations Environment Programme study the manufacture of building materials alone makes up 11% of total global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Competitions: 'THE GARDEN OF PLANTS'

Bustler

The Biennale dedicated to the Mediterranean landscape - the Radicepura Garden Festival - has been organised since 2017 and hosts architects, landscape designers, artists, intellectuals, gardeners, and enthusiasts called to create gardens on the theme of the year stimulating reflections and actions to protect the landscape and the environment.

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What’s So Luxurious About Luxury Vinyl Tile, Part I: The Dirty Secret Behind a DIYer’s Dream Material

Architizer

HML is changing the future of the built environment by creating resources for designers, architects, teachers, and students to make healthier places for all people to live. Carbon Emissions from producing PVC are underestimated by between 8% and 180% in Manufacturer Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). What’s in a Name?

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Here Is What COVID-19 Will Do to Architecture and Cities

Community Architect

Those folks believe that the pandemic will have some lasting impact on the way people work, have vacations and shop and that those adaptations will alter the built environment in radical ways. But memory is short and already we see the removal of protective banking regulations that were designed to prevent a repeat of the financial melt-down.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

We’ve got huge constraints, if you look at the pressure on the environment, and I believe we are the custodians of [that]. The building quickly garnered international attention, and has been viewed online — by one estimate — over 290 million times, a testament to the fact that great design still has the power to make an impact.

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Grenfell Tower in West London: Fire Inquiry

e-architect

After the fire at Knowsley Heights, Merseyside in 1991, a handwritten government note from the Department of the Environment, which at the time had responsibility for building regulation, to the Building Research Establishment, asked them to “play down” the issue of the cladding fire at Knowsley.

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