|
Our Greening Vocabulary - 'Carbon Footprint', 'Electrosmog&a
2008-08-14 15:54:00 From BBC News | Technology | World Edition: "Electrosmog", "eco-village" and "carbon footprint" are among the new environmental terms which have made it into the latest Chambers Dictionary. Popular culture has also had an influence, with "wardrobe malfunction" and "fashion forw
Al Gore?s carbon footprint
2008-06-10 17:24:00 Tuesday 10: Being thankful can sometimes feel like pandering to some capricious deity. Yet I am thankful, often, and, often for intangible blessings. Like inner strength. Life is reasonably good for me, but then my satisfaction levels have always been set rather high. All the more reason to be thankful that life?s challenges never reduced ...
?Kick the Habit?, the Slogan to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
2008-06-05 18:54:00 “Our world is in the grip of a dangerous carbon habit,” UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon Ban said in a statement to mark the celebration of World Environment Day today. ?Kick the Habit?...
By: Green Options
Was Fred Flintstone's carbon footprint small enough for Portland?
2008-06-03 16:50:00 We got another goofball flyer from Sam the Tram and Transportation Sue yesterday, telling us about our "options" in getting from Point A to Point B. We don't know how much the City of Portland is paying people to create these glossy mailers, but whoever it is must not get paid enough for any new ideas. Here's the cover photo on the latest one: Here's the cover photo on the one we got last fall: Hey, Sam, that's pretty shallow, even for you. Give it a rest. But after drying our eyes from that belly laugh, we opened the four-page brochure to behold a sight that stopped our heart. For years, we have been searching for that single image that epitomizes the arrogance of the Portland city government. Today it arrived. Maybe some day something better than this will come along, but for now, this picture is worth a thousand words: Yes, there you have it. When it comes to delivering transportation services to its residents and visitors, Portland says, "Get off your butt a...
By: Jack Bog's Blog
Data Centres Set to Overtake The Aviation Industry?s Carbon Footprint
2008-06-02 22:49:00 Tideway Systems – It?s often hard for people outside of the slightly specialised world of Distributed Computing and Data Centres to get their heads around quite how critical and complex they have become. So I was it was a bittersweet moment to find this article in the Economist last week. Buy our stuff, save the planet. May 22nd 2008 (http://www.economist.com/resea-rch/articlesbysubject/displayst-ory.cfm?subjectid=348909&sto-ry_id=11412495). Sweet since it certainly serves to put into perspective dark art of ... read more
My shoes don't fit my carbon footprint
2008-05-27 04:09:00 Yeah.When I was in 7th grade, I competed in a smarty pants team sport -- Creative Problem Solving. Instead of scoring goals, we won "creative points" working in teams to solve the world's problems.Our team rocked -- a super nerdy scientist-type, a whiz kid literature quoter, the pop culture guru, and me -- the freak artist. We won several competitions (and cool ass multi-tiered trophies), going to state the final year we competed.Oh yeah, we were that cool.The issue we worked with in 7th grade was global warming. I remember being completely repulsed by the deforestation of Brazil by American companies like McDonald's. I was amazed by how the ice shelf was melting, how the food chain has been disrupted, and how people were causing chaos in the natural world.I was amazed, repulsed, and creatively solving the problem. In my team. For a trophy.I have to admit, my concern did not make a huge impact on my life at the time. It took about 20 years to sink in and Al Gore to poke me before ...
New study aims to indentify the carbon footprint of poultry
2008-05-16 13:06:00 Details of a new project that identifies the total carbon footprint of pig and poultry products were revealed on the first day of the British Pig and Poultry Fair at Stoneleigh Park.
By: FWi - All News
Poultry videos: Reducing carbon footprint and Lord Rooker faces industry qu
2008-05-16 13:06:00 Details of a new project that identifies the total carbon footprint of pig and poultry products were revealed on the first day of the British Pig and Poultry Fair at Stoneleigh Park.
By: FWi - All News
Paul McCartney?s carbon footprint is criticized
2008-05-14 18:34:00 LONDON (AP) — Sometimes it seems Paul McCartney can’t win for losing. The former Beatle has long been an outspoken advocate of environmental causes and animal rights. He is a vegetarian who won’t even wear leather shoes. But now he’s being criticized for having a hybrid Japanese car flown to him in Britain rather than having ...
By: Latest News
The evaporative refrigerator
2008-05-11 12:00:00 This is Mohammed Bah Abba’s Pot-in-pot invention. In northern Nigeria, where Mohammed is from, over 90% of the villages have no electricity. His invention, which he won a Rolex Award for (and $100,000), is a refrigerator than runs without electricity. You take a smaller pot and put it inside a larger pot. Fill the space in between ...
Carbon footprint initiative to report its findings at Pig and Poultry Fair
2008-05-02 13:00:00 Details of an exciting new initiative to identify the carbon footprint of meat products, from raw materials through the feed mills, farming systems and processing chains to supermarket shelves, will be revealed at the British Pig & Poultry Fair at Stoneleigh Park.
By: FWi - All News
How Green Is Your E-mail? New Study Tries to Quantify Carbon Footprint of E
2008-04-28 21:15:00 We all know that e-mail is far superior to faxing or God-forbid, snail mail! But, how much greener is it? That?s what a new project at Sun Microsystems is trying to find out. This new initiative...
By: Green Options
Sting And Trudi Admit They?re Hypocrites Over Their Carbon Footprint
2008-04-28 17:03:00 We’ve written several articles detailing Sting and his wife Trudi Styler’s less than stellar environmental record — even while they speak out over the dangers of climate change and CO2 emissions. This past week, the UK Daily Mail received some refreshing honesty on the issue from Trudi during a interview at the Earls Court Real ...
By: Ecorazzi
On Dove, palm oil, deforestation and global warming
2008-04-24 18:45:00 Greenpeace have launched a campaign this week to stop Dove - and its maker, Unilever - from destroying Indonesian rainforests and tropical peatlands for palm oil. The main facts are: Indonesia is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, in large part due to the destruction of its forests at the hands of ...
It'll Be Earth Day Tomorrow, Too
2008-04-22 11:37:00 Intended to inspire an awareness of and an appreciation for the Earth's environment, Earth Day is celebrated today at it has been each April for the past thirty eight years. A grassroots campaign initiated back then served as a wake up call of sorts to help people to realize the impact of our actions on the planet and give the environment a national spotlight. A movement was born and today Earth Day is celebrated not only in America but in countries all over the world. But are we really doing right by our dear Mother Earth?People take to the streets celebrating, organizing rallies, staged marches on political institutions, speeches, concerts and festivals. One can don their favorite "Be Nice to Your Mother" t-shirt pack up the ice chest and Styrofoam plates with plastic sporks, maybe even the hibachi, and head off to the park with thousands of other like minded enlightened to listen to your favorite bands perform their favorite tunes at ear bleed...
By: Zoe's Dad
Biofuels: A Threat and a Cause of World Hunger
2008-04-13 20:37:00 Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's NotebookIn an op-ed dated April 10th, the The New York Times says that the world is getting hungrier because corn, wheat and soy prices are through the roof.Last year, the food import bill of developing countries rose by 25 percent as food prices rose to levels not seen in a generation.Corn doubled in price over the last two years. Wheat reached its highest price in 28 years....The United States and other developed countries need to step up to the plate. The rise in food prices is partly because of uncontrollable forces ? including rising energy costs and the growth of the middle class in China and India....Now, any country with a growing middle class...well, that's good news, but still yet, the NYT tells us, the problem is that old familiar culprit - the "rich world," which has been arrogant enough to produce biofuels. "...industrial nations are not generous" and "rich countries' energy policies helped create the problem."The unnamed editoriali...
By: Faultline USA
Nuffield Carbon Farming Conference aims to answer carbon footprint question
2008-04-11 13:45:00 Wondering how carbon footprints and climate change could affect your farming business? The Nuffield Carbon Farming Conference on 30 May at Stoneleigh aims to provide some answers
By: FWi - All News
Scientists Unveil High-Res Map of the U.S. Carbon Footprint
2008-04-08 15:33:00 From Wired Top Stories: A team of scientists has completed a carbon dioxide emissions inventory of the United States plotted down to 100-square-kilometer chunks. That means that the NASA- and Department of Energy-funded scientists can detail emissions across all 9 million square
How Much Carbon Does Your Carbon Footprint Calculator Produce?
2008-04-01 16:21:00 Over at Treehugger today, architecture writer Lloyd Alter has written an eye-opening piece about the shockingly high carbon footprint of online carbon footprint calculators. Not only do the...
By: Green Options
EARTH HOUR: Reduce your carbon footprint
2008-03-27 22:42:00 With just one day left until Earth Hour this Saturday, have you made plans to reduce your carbon footprint and take part in this worldwide event yet? At 8pm on March 29th, Earth Hour asks you to turn off your lights and non-essential appliances for one hour to promote the conservation of electrical energy in an ...
Warning, Carbon Footprint Controversy Ahead
2008-03-27 20:38:00 I'm a regular customer of some years, and am writing to ask you to remove from your website the erroneous information regarding CO2. You have been duped. You think you need to charge people more, just like the eco-conspiracy wants to TAX people more, for CO2 emissions. The Al Gore slide show you refer to in Carbonfree Shipping is pseudo-scientific baloney. Below is a statement, issued March 4th 2008 and signed by nearly 100 leading environmental scientists from around the world, testifying to this fact.
Your Carbon Footprint, What Colour Are You?
2008-03-26 04:33:00 If one person can change things to reduce their Carbon Footprint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-arbon_footprint ) and make a positive difference on the environment, imagine the difference a whole office can make.
Tools to track your carbon footprint
2008-03-18 11:48:00 This weekend I watched a polemical documentary on the global warming debate called The Great Global Warming Swindle. The makers claimed that the entire man-made global warming debate was a sham and that the whole process was very natural. The theory was that it was nothing more than an attempt by governments and corporations to extract more money out of people through carbon taxes. The documentary was certainly persuasive although I couldn’t help feeling that surely, even if we’re not directly responsible, the amount of CO2 that we produce can’t be helping - or at least is speeding-up the process to an unhealthy extent. Whatever your take on the matter, what can be said with certainty is that it surely can’t hurt to reduce your carbon footprint. Last year I wrote about MakeMeSustainable which is an online project to track your carbon footprint online. However, having had my interest re-stimulated in the debate, I’ve recently discovered a few more sites ...
By: insideTonic
New invention turns co2 into fuel
2008-02-29 09:54:00 A scientist who mapped his genome and the genetic diversity of the oceans said Thursday he is creating a life form that feeds ...
Your Own Portable Carbon Footprint Tracker
2008-02-25 19:26:00 Pretty neat: a device called “Carbon Hero” uses satellite navigation data to calculate your personal, daily carbon footprint with almost no manual input required. Carbon Hero, which was a...
By: Green Options
French shipping wine by sailing ship
2008-02-24 19:31:00 It?s been over a hundred years, but soon a three-masted, 19th century barque will transport 60,000 bottles of French wine from Bordeaux to Dublin. It will be the first of seven three-masted vessels planned to be in service by 2013, all apparently slated to transport French wines as far as Canada. The delivery by ship will take ...
Carbon Footprint Calculator
2008-02-09 07:26:00 Click to enlarge Carbon Footprint Calculator 1.0 Calculate your carbon footprint with this easy to use calculator software. Enter in data to figure CO2 generated from activities including transportation, energy, trash or waste, recreation, purchasing habits, food, and more. Learn where you can go green by calculating your carbon footprint and then focusing ... SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Carbon Footprint Calculator", url: "http://www.plentyofsoft.com/ho-me-amp-education/carbon-footpri-nt-calculator/" } );
What Is A Carbon Footprint?
2008-02-04 23:38:00 Have you heard about a carbon footprint and wondered what it is? It's a term that has been bandied about it the news quite a bit lately. You can calculate your carbon footprint yourself to see the effect your life is having on the planet. I've calculated my carbon footprint and talk you through how you go about calculating yo5 Zoom(s)
Tackling farming's Carbon footprint
2008-02-01 11:30:00 Climate change and carbon footprints are key issues at Plumpton College in West Sussex, reports David Lamb in the latest College Farm Focus report.
By: FWi - All News
David Beckham May Have The Largest Carbon Footprint In Human History
2008-01-24 03:19:00 Last year about this time, the Beckhams were named the most environmentally unfriendly couple. Now, David alone has a new honor to add to his resume: Largest Carbon Footprint In Human History! For those playing along at home, you should imagine your best ‘God’ voice when saying that. Trust me. According to Carbon Trust, Beckham’s extensive ...
By: Ecorazzi
Recyled paper pay slips will help DHL to reduce carbon footprint
2008-01-15 15:47:00 Logistics firm DHL Exel Supply Chain has signed a deal with payroll provider Northgate HR to print its employees' pay slips on recycled paper. The partnership, thought to be the UK's first ever 'green pay slip' scheme, affe
Heating up the carbon footprint...
2008-01-14 22:02:00 English funeral parlours could soon start utilising the heat of crematoria to keep mourners warm, it was reported recently. A council in Greater Manchester has come up with a novel idea to make funerals more environmentally friendly. Crematorium gases are usually wastefully emitted into the atmosphere, instead of heating radiators. read more &raqu-o;
By: Communati.com
What is a Carbon Footprint?
2008-01-12 21:15:00 We all hear it but are we really into it when we talk about knowing what carbon fooprints really are? Apparently, we all just get in with the times and try to mix in whenever it is mentioned but understanding what it really is should be something worth tackling. The funny thing about it is ...
What's the Real Story on Computing's Carbon Footprint?
2008-01-09 14:10:00 With everything going toward "green" technology, it seems apparent that computing operations worldwide will be heading in that direction. Reportedly, one server has the same environmental impact or carbon footprint that a 15-mpg SUV has. If that is indeed the case, it appears that an estimated billi
radiohead's carbon footprint
2007-12-28 21:00:00 There seem to be no limits to Radiohead's cultural impact; all the headlines for the name your own price album, the upcoming New Year's concert on Current TV and Johnny Greenwood getting critical aclaim for his soundtrack to the movie of the moment, PT Anderson's "There Will Be Blood". In additon, to all this the band has recently undertaken an audit of its touring practices with the objective of reducing the band's carbon footprint.(the audit can be downloaded here) Here's what they found.Fan travel and consumption made up 86% of the Theatre tour and 97% of the Amphitheatre tour. Of the band’s touring impact – Travel and energy use accounted for 60% (Theatre tour) and ~40% (Amphitheatre tour) International travel accounted for a further 34 – 40% of impacts.Short of no-one coming to see us, we’d like to share with our fans some ways of reducing this – our early research suggests that how you come to our shows can significantly reduce the tour̵...
By: Influx Insights
Excess Christmas Adds to Carbon Footprint Woes
2007-12-26 11:28:00 It is indeed the season to be merry and feasting but while we are experiencing this privilege, we also must take responsibility in the aftermaths that may occur during and after the Christmas season. We find ourselves in the midst of a lot of food and activities in line with the holidays and while most ...
Ethanol is Not Helping to Lower the Carbon Footprint
2007-12-20 17:03:00 Last night on the podcast, I said that ethanol was not cleaner than gasoline. Here’s an article from John Stossel to back up my claim: Studies indicate that the standard mixture of 90 percent ethanol and 10 percent gasoline pollutes worse than gasoline. Here’s a link to that study. Tags: ethanol, environmentalism, climate, changeShareThis
Bali conference: The summit?s carbon footprint
2007-12-16 05:29:00 [From: The Guardian] The 15,000 politicians, activists, MPs, journalists, and civil servants from 180 countries who travelled to Bali for the talks emitted between 60,000 and 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, according to estimates. This is not far short of what a country like Malawi or Chad emits in a year, the UN said yesterday. The ...
By: News for Greens
Log Home Carbon Footprint
2007-12-12 01:01:00 Log Homes and Timber Frame Homes may have the lowest carbon footprint of any other type of construction. A carbon footprint is the measurement of carbon dioxide released as a result of using a particular product or other human activity. Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas released into the atmosphere and major contributor to ...
Monaco Tells The Rich - Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
2007-12-05 00:00:00 In the world of environmental lobbying there’s one country’s leader the activists know they don’t need to persuade that their cause is right - Prince Albert of Monaco. From the day he took office two years ago he immediately made his mark by signing Monaco up for the Kyoto protocol, and since then has regularly taken ...
Check your carbon footprint ? on your mobile phone
2007-12-02 00:00:00 Do you have a big carbon footprint? Get out your mobile phone and check.
Check your carbon footprint ? on your mobile phone
2007-12-02 00:00:00 Do you have a big carbon footprint? Get out your mobile phone and check.
By: Latest phones
Check your carbon footprint -- on your cell phone
2007-11-30 20:46:00 Do you have a big carbon footprint? Get out your cell phone and check. European scientists have devised an online application to measure how much greenhouse gas people emit from the way they travel, light their homes, choose dinner or watch television."The idea is to help people be aware of the impact that their personal behavior can have," said Antonia Mochan, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, whose scientists came up with the new application. "Climate change seems such a big story, people think 'Where can I start?' This can help," she said.The application, which requires users to input information on their behavior, is available via Web site http://mobgas.jrc.ec.europa.eu- and is free of charge.10 Hot NotebooksMusic NewsOutdoors & Nature Books
Does turning the clocks back damage the environment?
2007-11-30 10:12:00 According to a study by Cambridge University engineers, turning the clocks back does cause a surge in the countries CO2 emissions. The study found that households use an extra 5% electricity due to the darker evenings. This generates millions of tonnes of excess carbon dioxide, and adds millions of pounds to the nations power bills. The ...
Bali Carbon Footprint
2007-11-28 01:10:00 The IPCC Conference on Climate Change is taking place this Dec 3-14 in Bali, Indonesia.The conference will have about 12,000 participants from 189 countries, and since Bali is in the middle of nowhere we can assume that the average participant flies 1/4ths of the Earth's circumference to attend, or about 6,000 miles.Passenger air travel costs 0.18 kg CO2/passenger-mile, for long-distance flights. Of course, many participants will be taking private jets, which will throw this calculation way off.So the total carbon emissions for travel to-and-from the conference are 26 MMT CO2 (million metric tons).by David Appell Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com-
Al Gore buddy owner of sunken ship that left huge carbon footprint on Antar
2007-11-27 20:21:00 Found this on the blog Sweetness & Light From the Canadian Free Press:  You’d never read this in the mainstream media: The owner of MS Explorer that sank, leaving a huge carbon footprint at the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean Friday is an acolyte of teensy-weensy carbon footprint crusader Al Gore.G.A.P. Adventures CEO and Explorer owner, Bruce ...
Toshiba help offset lifetime carbon footprint of your laptop: Just donate £
2007-11-27 15:04:00 Toshiba wants to make the world a greener place to live, Toshiba are a committed to the environment and are working hard with local UK projects by investing many donations in a very well worth dedicated Toshiba wood based in Cumbria. Toshiba have a dedicated carbon offset partner is co2balance plus with 100% of any donation ...
By: Cheap Laptops
Women reduce carbon footprint by having abortions.
2007-11-27 05:01:00 From Debbie at Right Truth You read that title correctly, women are having abortions to save the planet. I couldn't make this up in my wildest imagination. Women are not just having abortions, but having themselves sterilized permanently. I think these women are CRAZY. What kind of world would this be without HUMANS??? Didn't God make the world FOR his ultimate creation -- mankind? I doubt these women (and men) even have any faith in something higher than themselves. Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy. But the very thought makes her shudder with horror. Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet. Desperate measures: Toni Vernelli was steralised at age 27 to reduce her c...
By: Faultline USA
Saving the World at 8mpg
2007-11-24 14:27:00 Another great website I came across recently is by a guy called Andy Baird, who swapped his house for a gas-guzzling RV, but actually substantially reduced his carbon footprint - and is saving loads of money to boot! “To most people with full-time jobs, travel means vacation travel… and that means you pile into your car ...
Saving the World at 8mpg
2007-11-24 14:27:00 Another great website I came across recently is by a guy called Andy Baird, who swapped his house for a gas-guzzling RV, but actually substantially reduced his carbon footprint - and is saving loads of money to boot! “To most people with full-time jobs, travel means vacation travel… and that means you pile into your car ... |
|
 |
|
 |
