Carbon
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Do CALGreen’s Embodied Carbon Measures Make Compliance Too Easy?
Authors and stakeholders of the amended building code weigh in
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Carbon Emissions in a Typical New Production Home
A case study report from the NREL shows the importance of selecting materials and construction practices that reduce carbon emissions in homebuilding
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A Buyer’s Guide to Carbon Credits
Tools for carbon credit buyers looking for vetted data on where to invest
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Carbon Emissions from Residential Construction
Choosing home-building materials and methods that lower greenhouse gas emissions is key to reducing our climate impact
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Best Practices for Clearing a Woodlot
An owner/builder has a big pile of trees and brush with no apparent market value. Now what?
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The Myth of Carbon Offsets
Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest carbon offsets in California
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Recent Studies on Embodied Carbon
Choosing the right building materials can sharply lower carbon impact of new construction
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Measuring Embodied Carbon
Tools for determining a project's up-front carbon emissions to help inform materials selection—and the challenges of employing them
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Dream of Carbon Air Capture Edges Toward Reality
A growing number of projects to remove CO2 are going online, but major hurdles remain
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Canadian Group Proposes a New Metric for Buildings
"Carbon Use Intensity" would more accurately reflect the carbon impact of buildings, its advocates say
