By Chris Pastore on May 7, 2010
The pending arrival of the Nissan Leaf got me thinking about cars and the environment again. (BTW my previous post on the Prius vs. the Hummer is here). Considering that for many of us an automobile is a necessity, we have a new range of choices in automobile purchases to minimize the impact. High efficiency [...]
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By Chris Pastore on March 25, 2010
I’ve written previously about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The idea of LCA is relatively new, becoming popular in the 1990s and continuing to grow. When the basic concept of LCA was burgeoning in the industry, it was a considered to be a good tool to support sustainability claims that could eventually be used for marking [...]
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By Chris Pastore on February 11, 2010
A few years back, a good friend of mine told me that people “know” that global warming is real because of their personal experiences. He wanted to start the introduction to a book with a series of personal experiences of people who observed things getting warming. Sometimes a story captivates the imagination. A story can [...]
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By Chris Pastore on December 3, 2009
How do we know if a product is “green” or “sustainable”? Consider the Life Cycle Analysis of cars performed by CNW in 2007 (here (PDF)). One of the more controversial conclusions of the study was that the Prius is less sustainable than a Hummer (H2 and H3). Naturally this created an uproar in the community. [...]
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