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Manufacturer/Supplier?
Are you a manufacturer or supplier? Are you looking for distribution opportunities in the PacificNorthwest/ Cascadia region including Western Canada? Our clients, who include architects, designers, and builders, are always seeking new, more versatile sustainable products. Tell us about your material and Register Here.
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When It Rains, It Pours!
Functional, modular water storage tanks. Australian design, it doesn’t take a drought to know rainwater collection and reuse makes sense. …
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Harvest the Sun
Save on energy bills by using solar to heat water for showers and fixtures, space heating and pool heating.
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The Sky's The Limit
Reclaim urban green space. Living roofs benefit everyone. Reduce heat loss while managing stormwater and heat island effect.
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 vivo's primary goal is to provide accessibility and affordability to green building for the purpose of encouraging and effecting wider adoption of the greenbuilding technologies, processes and products which result in high performance, eco-efficient buildings and a more sustainable built environment.
vivo is an independent sales agent for a number of complementary sustainability solution products and technologies. vivodepot focuses on eco-efficient solutions and sustainability strategies focused on energy and water use. Energy use in buildings is the most significant single producer of greenhouse gas emissions, the greatest contributor to climate change. - Reduce your use - identify methods to reduce your overall energy use - these can be behavioural or technological
- Replace your source - assess where renewable energy can be used to displace fuel or electric
- Maintain your systems - have equipment installed by a professional, commissioned to its optimum operating potential, periodically tested and maintained to ensure ongoing optimization.
- Monitor your savings - keep your eye on the triple bottom line to keep improving your consumption and efficiency.
For energy efficient buildings, vivo recommends kama Energy Efficient Building Systems
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 "In principle, all decisions that affect or are meant to improve the
environmental performance of a product/service should be scrutinized in
terms of their life cycle implications. For the environmental
perspective, a product's life cycle can be represented as a circular
movement that ties together resource extraction, production,
distribution, consumption and disposal. In other words, all the phases
of organized matter and energy that are in some way related to the
making and use of a product can also  be linked to an impact on the
environment."
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development,
Paris, France, 1995 |
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