Can environmentally friendly raw materials meet product specifications and be cost effective? This is the question that HOBAS Engineering, manufacturer of fiberglass reinforced pipe systems, has asked. By evaluating...
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Top-Notch Sustainability Practitioner Gathering: Umberto User Workshop in Essen, Sept 11/12, 2013
When the only way to implement a satisfactory future in human development is holistic thinking about sustainability, why is it that we so rarely happen to come across aids for realizing this mindset? Well, it’s a...
Holistic Sustainability Measurement: The Composite 3-Pillar-Index
By the end of the 20th century, a deep conceptual gap had evolved between a destructive economy devouring the declining resource base on the one hand and a poor, protection-needing environment on the other. However...
10 Appropriate Indicators to Measure Green Growth in Industry
Green Growth, Sustainable Growth, Green Economy – All of these concepts require decoupling. A decoupling, in a nutshell, that maintains economic growth while achieving material de-growth. Instead of consuming ever more...
The Five Most Important Changes for Global Sustainability: Living Planet Report 2012
We live above our limits, the planet does not provide sufficient resources for our consumerist lifestyle, and things get worse. The rich exploit the poor, ecosystems are destroyed, and nothing happens to stop this...
Ecology’s Step Child – We Need Water Footprints!
Assessing environmental effects of human activity is something we become more and more familiar with. If you consider yourself an eco-friendly person, granted that you have calculated your personal ecological footprint...
Celebrations, come on, let’s celebrate and have a good time. And don’t think about tomorrow…?
Do you know what day today is? Yes, it is google’s 13th birthday. But this is not what I want to write about. Today is Earth Overshoot Day, hooray! From now on to the end of the year humanity consumes resources that...