published March 23, 2009 and has No Comments
Barcelona's per capita carbon emissions were particularly good. Photo: Amitabh Trehan via flickr While cities certainly use a lot of energy in a concentrated area, the per capita emissions of their residents are often well below national averages, a new report from the International Institute for Environment and Development says. David Dodman compared the emissions of 12 of the ...
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published March 18, 2009 and has No Comments
The path of "virtual water" related to coffee imports to the Netherlands. Image via the Water Footprint Network The concepts of a carbon footprint , and, more recently, a water footprint are meant to evoke the mark we leave on the planet with the products and services we create and consume--to remind us that, say, the beans in our ...
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published March 13, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Robert Scoble Microsoft is doing a lot to focus on emissions reductions. We talked last month about their push for energy efficiency of data centers , but the company is looking to do a whole lot more to make a tinier carbon footprint. ...
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Microsoft Aims At 30% Emissions Reduction by 2012
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published March 11, 2009 and has No Comments
AMEE is short for Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine, and it is a platform that seeks to track the energy consumption of everything. The goal is to make energy consumption and carbon footprints open sourced, so that we become more responsible for them, and hold others accountable as well. Gavin Starks spoke at ETech about why we need to care ...
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published March 9, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo of classic Coke can in the snow via D3 San Francisco @ flickr. According to the Guardian , Coca-Cola is today in the UK publishing its report on the greenhouse gases emitted by making, chilling, transporting and disposing some of its products, following the Carbon Trust's method for carbon counting and labeling. The surprise? A 330 ml aluminum ...
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published March 5, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo of a recent protest at Aberdeen airport by anti-aviation group Plane Stupid . Aviation, especially in the UK, is having a tough year. A tanking economy curtails profits. Lots of protest over plans for a new third runway at Heathrow . And now, the news that the country's Environment Agency will actually have the authority in future to ...
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published March 4, 2009 and has No Comments
Fox Television's Emmy-winning "24" counts down its carbon footprint. “We know that we can’t solve the problem in 24 hours, but by making energy-conscious decisions on our set, we’re contributing to a solution,” states Keifer Sutherland , star of 24 , in a Fox TV PSA addressing climate change. The producers of the hit series made a commitment to ...
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