Carbon footprint / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...carbon, ranging from 1.7 to 2.5 kg CO₂e per square meter per inch. While still relatively effective, it is surpassed by cellulose and hemp in terms of reducing the carbon footprint of homes. How to reduce a buildings carbon footprint To significantly minimize the carbon footprint of building projects and produce an emb...

...carbon, live-work single-family home. In an effort to achieve net-zero carbon, the team has minimized the embodied carbon of building materials and systems while using the landscape to sequester carbon. Carefully deconstructed material from an existing home scheduled for demolition highlights the potential of adaptive ...

...carbon was sequestered in the timber construction, leading to a significant reduction in the embodied carbon of this mid-rise development. The building featured in the time-lapse video of the construction of Arbora also comprised retail space on the ground floor of this first of three buildings. Building mid-rise proje...

...carbon footprint. Wood structures, as a consequence - including glulam and CLT (cross laminated timber) products for mid-rise multifamily residential buildings - don't yet occupy their fair share of the market across Canada and North America. For economic and environmental reasons, it's in our common interest to put wo...

...carbon emissions from around the world. Looking in detail at the highest per capita carbon emitters, let's see how they are trying to reduce their carbon contributions. Who are the highest per capita CO2 carbon emitters? Oil-producing countries in the Middle East are the highest emitters of CO2 on a per capita basis, b...

...carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during its growth, and when used in construction, it keeps that carbon out of the atmosphere for the life of the building. Furthermore, because straw is a local agricultural product, it significantly reduces the carbon footprint associated with transporting building materials. Are st...

...Carbon footprint of gabion walls Gabion walls really do have a significantly lower carbon footprint than a concrete wall. Taking into account the embodied energy for the carbon footprint of a 10 foot high wall through all stages of it's life (manufacturing, transport, construction and maintenance)  - here are the compa...

...carbon housing option from cradle-to-grave in both its relatively compact design for a 3-bedroom home and material selection to reduce the total carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions during construction and operation. The result of this low-carbon design approach: Calculating the carbon footprint of its constru...

...carbon reduction, carbon sequestration & carbon offset schemes are becoming big business as cities, states and countries scramble to meet carbon reduction goals. If Chami & Fishbach have their way, these leviathans of the ocean may constitute a giant natural carbon offset business opportunity! Any schemes to in...

...carbon footprint in the built environment in the quest for zero carbon homes. A Canadian company may have the answer with a carbon-sequestering concrete system that appears to have the attributes ideal for general use across all building sectors, and it's gaining fans in the green building community. Is CarbonCure low-...

...carbon emissions. However, while operational carbon is important, we are only addressing part of the carbon reduction challenge. Calculate the Carbon Footprint of Buildings with The EC3 Calculator Carbon footprint versus life cycle analysis  For its part, the carbon footprint focuses only on the greenhouse gases (GHG...