Insulating your home may help the environment by lowering your energy usage, but unfortunately the petroleum-based foam that's typically used as insulation isn't all that eco-friendly itself.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, in Braunschweig, Germany have developed a method for creating insulation foam from wood particles. “Our wood foam can be used in exactly the ...

Back in 2014, we heard how scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research had developed a wood-based foam that could be used as eco-friendly insulation. Now, they've combined it with ...

Insulation materials of tomorrow must be both efficient and environmentally friendly. Scientists are developing insulation foam made from wood that could re- place petrochemical plastics in the long ...

Not only is styrofoam great for all your packing needs, it also makes for an incredibly effective and lightweight insulator. It’s just too bad the chemicals and processes needed to make it aren’t as ...

Since most foam materials are made of petrochemical plastics, they aren’t very climate-friendly. But now an alternative is in sight – a novel foam material produced entirely from wood, which is not ...

So when buyers walk away from spray-foam homes, it’s not always because foam is automatically “bad.” It’s because foam can turn a normal inspection into an argument about physics, moisture, visibility ...

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego surfer is hoping beachgoers will make the switch from foam to wooden boards for the good of the planet. In this Zevely Zone, I paddled out for a test ride at La Jolla Shores.

Climate protection is now a mandatory consideration for every building contractor. Only last October the German federal government tightened up its Energy Saving Ordinance (EnEV) even further by ...