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  • The Rising Value of the Global Carbon Market

    Recently only a pipe dream, the carbon market has exploded in recent years. With "cap and trade" schemes available in the EU and more recently British Columbia - Canada's most western province - plans are set to follow suit in Australia, New

  • Zerofootprint Offers Earth Day Carbon Calculator

    Zerofootprint’s Earth Day Carbon Calculator offers a means to honour the day by measuring your personal impact on the earth. Check it out here:This particular calculator does a quick calculation of your carbon emitting activities, and provides you with

  • Zerofootprint and Unilever Launch Water Calculator

    Unilever has teamed up with Zerofootprint to develop the One Minute Water Calculator. This customized piece of software asks simple questions in order to calculate the amount of water individual lifestyles require. With water availability looming as a

  • Zerofootprint and Earth Hour have teamed up!

    Earth Hour has teamed up with Zerofootprint to provide two carbon calculators that enable Earth Hour participants to measure their carbon footprint. Measure yours at http://earthhour.zerofootprint.net/. Or try the Facebook version that will allow you

  • Zerofootprint Toronto goes live!

    The City of Toronto and Zerofooprint have officially unveiled a new community-based weapon in the ongoing battle against climate change.

  • Interactive Window Helps Green Roots and Fight Climate Change

    Roots, a leading Canadian lifestyle brand, has launched an interactive window display to help you shrink your carbon footprint. Through the display, you'll also be able to help Roots reduce their environmental impact. Plus, the technology will allow you

  • Zerofootprint Guides: Offsetting, Part 5 - So, you think you don't offset?

    Every Thursday night, like every other householder in our neighborhood, I collect our waste paper, cans, bottles and plastic and put them out on the street outside our house. On Friday morning a local municipal truck comes by and collects it for

  • Zerofootprint Guides: Offsetting, Part 4 - Why Offset With Trees When Fossil Fuels Are To Blame?

    If climate change is primarily the result of burning fossil fuels isn't offsetting with trees simply a distraction? Shouldn't we focus on renewable energy projects that can replace the use of fossil fuel?

  • Zerofootprint Guides: Offsetting, Part 3 - The Problem Of Permanence

    Something that worries many people about offsetting emissions with trees is how can you guarantee that they will last long enough? Trees take time to absorb carbon, extracting it slowly from the atmosphere as they grow. But saplings are vulnerable to

  • Join the online Zerofootprint Party During Live Earth

    Zerofootprint is inviting you to participate in something extraordinary. Tomorrow, join a group of world citizens and pledge to reduce your Environmental Footprint by 10%, in 1 year, at Zerofootprint's online event during Live Earth.

  • Zerofootprint Guides: Offsetting, Part 2 - The Additionality Issue In Offsetting

    One of the biggest problems with offsetting is ensuring 'additionality' – proving that the offsets that you are buying in order to counterbalance your carbon emissions would not have happened without yours and other similar contributions. Often the

  • Zerofootprint Guides: Offsetting - Offsetting As A Sop To The Conscience

    Carbon offsetting provokes a powerful emotional response in some people. They just don't like the idea that you can pay someone else to mop up your carbon emissions. It smacks of indulgence and cheating. Critics say buying an offset while continuing to

  • Inspired for change

    On May 3, 2007 I attended an inspirational forum lead by Australian activist and "Deep Ecologist" John Seed. It was

  • Not with a buzz but a whimper

    The most familiar plea made by environmentalists warning us of the immanent disappearance of this or that species is a question: how will we explain the absence of the polar bear, or the manatee, or a certain species of eagle, to our children?

  • Getting Real

    Imagine discovering a Roman newspaper from, say, 23 August 410 AD.

  • Green Suggestions for Coffee Shops

    I recently realized that the coffee companies of Toronto (and, no doubt, of the Western hemisphere) waste a tremendous

  • Getting It Right Before It's Too Late

    No one can have failed to notice the shift in public perception of climate change in the past few months: the scientific debate, dangerously prolonged, is truly over. But this is not in itself a victory for those who are struggling to avert planetary

  • SUVs as Cliché

    In my last entry I took a page from the Weather Makers, and cited Tim Flannery’s observation that one of the obstacles to decisive action on climate change is that the whole idea of global warming has become a cliché even before it has been

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