Perspective:
What Makes One Product or Technology Greener?

What makes one product or technology better for the environment than another? How can we be sure it’s really better? The deeper we probe into the environmental impact of different products and technologies, the greater the complexity. An ecology professor of mine in college stated that his field was “the study of the incomprehensible by the incompetent.” That’s how it feels sometimes as we attempt to analyze the impact of our buildings on the environment. We can never fully understand, much less quantify, the many interwoven factors influencing environmental impact.
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