Brickbats over bricks: ZDNet
- October 21st, 2009
Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a “brick.”
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Could you green the world brick by brick?: ZDNet
- October 19th, 2009
One California-based company is going to try. And they’re going to make those “green” bricks in Wisconsin, not ship them in from China.
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Reinventing the humble brick to cut carbon emissions: Times of London
- October 12th, 2009
The makers of a new “green brick” say that the chemical manufacturing process requires up to 90 per cent less energy and generates 90 per cent less CO2 than traditional bricks.
Using coal residue to make a greener brick: CNET News
- September 24th, 2009
Calstar Products later this year plans to open a factory to manufacture a brick that uses fly ash–the residue from burning coal at power plants–as an ingredient while drastically reducing the amount of energy used in production.
Inside the Green Brick House: Greentech Enterprise
- September 24th, 2009
Industrial spa treatments like CalStar’s lay at the heart of the movement toward eliminating embedded energy in manufactured products. The company has devised a “green” brick that requires 85 percent less energy to produce than conventional clay bricks and consists of 40 percent fly ash, the waste emissions captured at coal-burning power plants.
