Green Roofs – The Future of Urban Buildings
For major cities and urban areas, incorporating green roofs, or roofs planted with gardens and vegetation, serves as a way to reduce energy use in…
ANSI | Energy | Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power – The Most Misunderstood Source of Energy
Nuclear power might very well be the most misunderstood source of energy used to generate electricity. Fear generated from incidents in Chernobyl, Three Mile Island,…
Standards Could Have Saved Easter Island
Ancient Easter Island has been seen as a tragic historical folly, with the Rapa Nui people causing the complete desolation of their small ecosphere at…
Water Ballast Tank Specifications for Ships
Sea ships allow widespread trade and travel that would never been possible without them. Among the ship’s components, the ballast keeps it afloat. Ballast systems…
Tragedy of the Commons
Environmental problems derive from many different sources, but effective environmental sustainability is ultimately dependent on mentality and ideology. If people do not view something as…
Composting Standards
Recycling is one of the better solutions to curbing the amount of waste left in landfills, since it allows for the reuse of the artificial…
ISO 14000 Collection 2: Comprehensive Environmental Management Systems Collection
Standardization can help to increase efficiency of products and services while protecting the people that interact with them. They are also needed to protect nature….
Recommended Practice for Measuring Emissions and Fuel Economy of Hybrid Vehicles
The automobile has a rich history shaping how it is constructed and used today. Around the year 1900, cars could be powered by steam, gasoline,…
Guide for Addressing Environmental Issues in Product Standards (ISO GUIDE 64:2008)
Natural climatic shift has driven the Earth through many geological epochs. It has often been accepted that we are in the Holocene (meaning “entirely recent”),…