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Global GreenTag Releases the First Modern Slavery Reporting Declaration for Products
Global GreenTag has released the first ever Modern Slavery Declaration for products. The Global GreenTag International MSD™ Modern Slavery Transparency Declaration (GGTI MSD) implements a comprehensive risk assessment and verification process in association with manufacturers on individual product supply chains. Helping manufacturers to monitor, report on and ultimately eradicate human slavery occurring in thei...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/03/2023 + Show |
Brookline Massachusetts Bans Oil and Gas Pipes in New Construction
In a bold, sustainable move and a 200-3 vote, the Town Meeting Members of Brookline, Massachusetts voted in a ban of oil and gas pipes for new buildings and also for significant renovations of existing buildings. This means that these buildings will have heating and hot water systems, and appliances that use electricity. Additionally, occupants of these same buildings will also increasingly be driving electric vehicles. ...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/10/2023 + Show |
DIY Solar Power Fan Installation - Reduce Shed Heat and Stagnant Air
A solar powered fan is a great and simple idea to remove excess heat from a shed. And this is a Scout project in addition, where (with supervision), the kids can get involved and learn as well. Apparently this Scout shed sometimes reached 160 degrees F in the summer! Green Builder Matt Hoots explains the steps and shows us how it's...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/25/2024 + Show |
Smart Exhaust Controls - Sensors Improve Garage and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
"There are good garages and bad garages…” according to Green Builder Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. And in the good ones, we breathe better air! Matt reviews the benefits and and healthy air risks with attached and detached garages. The good news is that a ventilation fan can help remove the fumes we...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/25/2024 + Show |
Automatic Bath Fan Sensors Reduce Humidity, Pollutants, and Odors
As Green Builder Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. points out, most people don’t use ventilation properly. Exhaust fans can be a missed opportunity for improving Indoor air quality, or IAQ, because so many people don’t turn them on, or they turn them off too soon. In the kitchen, excessively loud hoods are also less...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/23/2024 + Show |
Rainstick Showers - Higher Water Pressure, Using 80% Less Water?
The Rainstick shower seems to offer the impossible, delivering high water pressure, while using a lot less water. If you’re concerned about lower water pressure, this product can deliver a better experience for you while still saving water. And if you take a longer shower, you no longer have to feel quite as guilty about...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 03/15/2024 + Show |
Heat Pumps and Cold Weather - Q&A / Myth Busting
Some myths take a while to go away… Decades ago, Atlanta Green Builder Matt Hoots would likely have agreed that heat strips were often needed to help heat pumps keep up with heating demand in colder weather. Technology has since evolved, and this practice is no longer needed down to 20 degrees or even 0 or below, but with...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 02/19/2024 + Show |
COP28 - Is this Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
The 28th COP, or Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, took place in Dubai from November 20 to December 13, 2023. If you're an optimist, you might think it’s a great sign that a critical global climate change event took place in a fossil-fuel-production-dependent nation. As a pessimist, you...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 12/25/2023 + Show |
Major Green Building Organizations Rally Around the Common Materials Framework (CMF)
At Greenbuild 2023, leading green building organizations, including the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and mindful MATERIALS (mM) joined forces to align around the Common Materials Framework (CMF),...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 11/29/2023 + Show |
Global GreenTag International Launches First Nature Positive Standard and Declaration
Global GreenTag International recently launched the first Nature Positive green building programs, the NaturePositive+ Standard™ and the NaturePositive+ Declaration™. Both programs call on product manufacturers, built environment and other industries to shift focus to biodiversity and nature repair as a priority rather than primarily...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 11/29/2023 + Show |
Top Factors for Selecting New Windows
How do you decide what windows you need? Green Builder Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. shares some top considerations, but first he reminds us that every client, every job, every building, and every budget is different. So, that means there isn’t one answer that works for everyone. To help make this decision, Matt has a...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 10/31/2023 + Show |
Deciding When to Replace Windows
Thanks to GreenBuilder Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. for kicking off our series on Windows and Energy Efficiency! In this conversation, Matt explains when it’s time to start thinking about window replacement, and the answer might not be what some of us expected. With a great focus recently on energy efficiency reducing...
By Rate It Green Team Last updated: 10/31/2023 + Show |
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