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I sometimes receive a question from an architect or a designer who had a bad experience with a vinyl product. In trying to understand what happened, I often find that the “problem” is either not substantiated or based on bad information. Here are four common...

Once the campaign is over and a billboard is taken down, the vinyl can be repurposed as an alternative to landfilling. See the interesting uses of repurposed billboards.

ICL Industrial Products, the world’s biggest bromine producer, announced a framework to assess the potential long-term environmental and health effects of flame retardants.

San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has finished replacing the carpeting in its fleet of train cars with rolled-out vinyl flooring. BART started replacing the carpet in 2008 but only had funding for 200 cars. The latest project involved redoing the flooring in 389...

The Obama administration on Monday announced the final version of a landmark rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. 

The Obama administration on Monday announced the final version of a landmark rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. 

Healthcare columnist and expert Jane Rohde speaks to what will make for the safest, most effective healthcare environments in the coming years.

Sometimes referred to as ‘the next step in sustainability’ we must think in terms of resilience. What does this term actually mean, and can we understand it using some of the things we already know?