It's all natural, renewable, healthy and has zero embodied carbon. What's not to love? When speaking recently at a Passivhaus conference in Aveiro, Portugal, I mentioned one of my favourite subjects, ...

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “cork”? Chances are, your mind wandered to that bottle of crisp Chardonnay sitting in your fridge, and for good reason. Capitalizing on cork’s porous ...

There’s a reason the screw cap hasn’t dominated the wine stopper industry: Cork still kicks the ass of stamped aluminum for the good stuff-and not just for nostalgia’s sake. This is what keeps our ...

Cork, known for such low-tech applications as wine bottle stoppers and bulletin boards, now shows promise as the core material in composites used in high-tech automotive, aircraft and energy ...

"Walking on overly hard floors creates energy that moves upward toward our muscles and tendons, causing them to vibrate," explains João Rui Ferreira, president of APCOR, the Portuguese Cork ...

I’m always on the hunt for the latest, most interesting, and most environmentally friendly building materials, and I have particular interest in insulation products -- partly because many conventional ...

It didn't win the Stirling Prize, but cleans up on all the sustainability awards. I have called cork the perfect building material: completely natural, insulating ...