BEES 1.0:
Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability

The government data is now in, and it turns out that cellulose insulation has twice the environmental burdens of fiberglass, that vinyl composition tile is preferable to linoleum, and that standard asphalt shingles beat out clay roofing tiles and fiber-cement shingles on the environmental scale. What’s going on here? Is the conventional wisdom of the green building community totally off-base? Has political corruption now engulfed the environmental bean-counting process? Before we try to answer these questions, some background:

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