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Is the green tourism industry truly sustainable?

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Another feature: that 1 Hotels aims to reduce embodied carbon by using existing buildings where possible. “We We always try to look for buildings to repurpose, so we can try to address embodied carbon, even though we might not always be able to offset the total of our embodied carbon,” Hanson says. “We

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Green building labels need a renovation

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Thousands of structures that earned high EPC ratings were still emitting lots of carbon due to shortcomings in the ranking system. “In In some instances, they may amount to so-called ‘greenwashing’ with consumers effectively being deluded into thinking their ‘energy efficient’ home represents a better outcome for the environment.”.

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

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These included community engagement programs, an Indigenous-relations roadmap, a sustainable-construction training program, and R&D exploring the powers of life-cycle assessment to reduce the embodied carbon of building projects. “I Theresa Dearden 28, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea/Salt Spring Island, B.C.