A Proactive Approach to Reducing Greenhouse Gasses If we have any hope of curbing the climate crisis, we cannot simply react to the environmental damage that is occurring. The only way we can avert a global climate catastrophe is to think about the future. Additionally, we must take a proactive approach to reduce greenhouse gas […]
Moving Beyond Carbon Neutral In previous blog posts, I talk about what it means to be carbon neutral. I also discuss how one can achieve carbon neutrality through mitigation and carbon offsets. But what if I told you there was something beyond carbon neutral? That you could go even further in offsetting the damaging effects […]
The ICEMAN Carbon Factor Index In the previous whitepaper, we outlined the International Carbon Efficiency Mechanism Attributed to Neutrality or ICEMAN. The ICEMAN Carbon Factor Index is the mathematical conversion of the Carbon Factor into a unit of measurement. This measurement is between one and one hundred. This number represents the Carbon Factor as a […]
Understanding Cradle to Gate Carbon Measurement The measurement of the total greenhouse gas emissions of a product over the course of its entire lifetime is called Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). There are three types of LCA. Cradle-to-grave measures the carbon footprint from the time a product is manufactured until it goes into the landfill at […]
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint. In today’s world, it is generally not possible to completely eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from your activities and operations. You can mitigate your emissions as much as you can through environmentally conscious choices like energy efficiency measures, but you almost certainly won’t be able to eliminate them all. However, reducing […]
How the HGA House Became ICEMAN The HGA House built by the Hamptons Green Alliance with the goals of being LEED Platinum, net-zero energy, and carbon-neutral was a significant achievement in and of itself. The methodology we created to measure the carbon footprint of the construction phase of the building has now become the framework […]
Glasgow Climate Pact In November of 2021, 120 world leaders and over 40,000 registered participants representing almost 200 countries gathered in Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26. For two weeks, this impressive gathering of policy-makers and experts discussed the science of and solutions for climate change. Over the course of these two weeks—along […]
In 2008, I founded the Hamptons Green Alliance (HGA) to promote sustainable, resilient building and maintenance practices. We knew we wanted our first project as an association to be an ultra-green luxury home. But first, we wanted to set some specific goals. The HGA House goals. The first goal we set for the house was […]
What does it mean to be carbon neutral? Simply put, carbon-neutral means not leaving a Scope 1-3 carbon footprint on the planet. A carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions caused by any given person, product, process, or activity based on the Scope 1-3 measurements defined by the World Resources Institute’s Greenhouse […]
It cannot be denied: the climate crisis is upon us. A new report released in February 2022 by the United Nations, based on 34,000 scientific studies compiled by 270 scientists from 67 countries, has found that extreme weather events today are both more common and more severe than experts had predicted they would be. Many […]