waste

Point-Counterpart: To Incinerate or Not to Incinerate

27 May, 2009 | Richard Gilbert and Mark Winfield

Richard Gilbert opens

Waste is what we have used and have no further use for. Incinerating waste, I believe, is a better environmental solution than landfilling.

Only a limited amount of waste occurs in nature. Animals produce waste in the form of faeces, which, in turn, provide nutrients for other parts of the ecosystem. In contrast, we humans appropriate and discard major material flows beyond what is required for our metabolism and beyond what our local ecosystems can handle.

Rehab It

27 May, 2009 | Rodney Wilts

When people envision green buildings, they typically think of state-of-the-art, energy-efficient, shiny, new buildings. Existing building stock is written off as inefficient, only good for demolition or recycling, and best left to heritage planners and architectural conservationists. Things are starting to change though. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System recognizes the tremendous amount of energy embodied in existing building stock. It awards credits to those who reuse existing building structures.

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