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Embodied carbon vs operational carbon: What’s the difference, and why does it matter?

Renewable Energy World

Understanding the difference between embodied and operational carbon is crucial when planning and designing greener alternatives for your buildings. Embodied carbon is all the CO2 emitted in the production of the building. In the case of rebuilds, demolition adds to the embodied carbon of a site.

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The fight for a better tomorrow: Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders of 2022

Corporate Knights

Sanch Gupta and Milton Calderon Donefer have saved 52,000 pounds of food from going to waste and delivered more than 60,000 meals to homeless shelters in eight cities. million tonnes of plastic waste over the following decade. I firmly believe in waste reduction and working on leaving the world a better place than I found it,” he says.

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Ferguson encourages action towards a greener tomorrow??

Green Technology

Ferguson first set a carbon reduction goal in 2016 and is working toward a greener tomorrow. In December, Ferguson received an A- for our commitment to sustainability from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Newly designed high-efficiency fixtures and systems provide the same comforts as their wasteful counterparts.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project.