The first Zero Carbon Hotel?, LEED certified in 2-weeks, and the problem with the word “green”
I hate it when people invent meaningless terms like "carbon positive" and pretend that planting 70,000 trees offsets making cement; "One tonne of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels is not the same as one tonne of carbon stored in the tree trunks of a newly planted forest." https://theconversation.com/a-tonne-of-fossil-carbon-isnt-the-same-as-a-tonne-of-new-trees-why-offsets-cant-save-us-200901
I hate it when people invent meaningless terms like "carbon positive" and pretend that planting 70,000 trees offsets making cement; "One tonne of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels is not the same as one tonne of carbon stored in the tree trunks of a newly planted forest." https://theconversation.com/a-tonne-of-fossil-carbon-isnt-the-same-as-a-tonne-of-new-trees-why-offsets-cant-save-us-200901