Going green isn't always going healthy?

[Necuno]

Going green isn't always going healthy?

So we've seen the adoption of companies going green and as greeny as they can. I can't say that this is always the "healthy" route for the actual people using the buildings because some green designs seems to be flawed.

I would actually like your opinions on this

One reason I would do think it's flawed or maybe the design/layout it self is for example the over use of fluorescent lights and reflective colours and surfaces. Not to debate the fluorescent lights itself, but it's the total volume of light that's for example to problem here. Specifically where I sit our table's tops are white to help reflect the light coming down to I suppose make it more lit up in the area.

Now this is all cool I suppose however it's the white from beneath, it's the white from above as well as being reflected from the lcd screens; hence too much volume of light

Maybe not the best example, but it surely is just too much imho.

/flame, opnion, lol, comment away

 

[Chicken Boo]

It's nothing to do with being healthy, everything to do with promoting the correct image for consumers.

 

[noxibox]

Offices have normally used fluorescent lighting. Not sure all the white has much to do with being green either. But generally you want offices to be well-lit.

 

[Tacet]

So we've seen the adoption of companies going green and as greeny as they can. I can't say that this is always the "healthy" route for the actual people using the buildings because some green designs seems to be flawed.

The IEEE has published interesting studies regarding alternative power sources. One that caught my attentions was the following:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/biofuels-arent-really-green/0

where they showed how biofuels, something I always thought of as a "green" source, is not a sustainable option.

I remember an article stating that solar cells in general generates less electricity in their life-span, than is used to manufacture them. I can't find the source, though, and I do suspect that solar cell efficiency (both in manufacturing and in the cell itself) increased somewhat since that article.

Take into account the batteries needed in a solar solution, and do you really have a green design?