Tag: Carbon Dioxide - Page 11
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Ecotricity CEO's Electric Car Is "Not Another Tesla"
There have been rumors circulating for a while that Dale Vince, CEO of UK wind energy pioneers Ecotricity, is working on an electric sports car to rival the Tesla. Now we hear a little more via his new Zerocarbonista blog, and it looks like the
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Scientists Develop Low-Cost Version of Carbon Capture and Storage
Carbon capture and storage (see here and here for a primer) has always been a tough proposition: Scientists and environmentalists worry about the potential leakage from storage sites and its additional
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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
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Research Shows that Research Contributes to Global Warming
The average Canadian produces 22 tones of carbon dioxide each year - equal to the weight of about 4 large elephants. Doesn't everyone measure carbon dioxide in elephants? One of those Canadians happens to be biochemistry professor Hervé Philippe from
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions are Rapidly Accelerating, According to the Earth Policy Institute
Check out the Earth Policy
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The Green Living Manifesto - Green Building Beyond Buildings
When we interviewed Greg Searle of One Planet Communities North America, it was yet another affirmation of what TreeHugger has believed all along — namely that green buildings or sustainable technologies are not enough in themselves - social
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Global Warming Is Man-Made; Antarctic Ice Bubbles Tell the Tale
O.K. perhaps it's not news to you, and instead just a bit more evidence of man's effect on climate. Eons of air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice reveal how carbon dioxide ups and downs are in sync with rising and
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Radiohead Telecommute To Play Conan, Saving CO2
Last year, Radiohead bucked tradition by debuting their new album via web-only download, saving on paper and plastic. Last week, Thom Yorke and his Oxford band mates appeared on Conan's "green" show from home, saving as much CO2 as a car produces in a
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British Scientists Develop Another Waste CO2 Conversion Technology
Scientists and businesses are increasingly turning to an innovative strategy to fight rising emissions: turning waste carbon dioxide into a commodity. Now researchers at Newcastle University have unveiled a new technology to capitalize on this trend;
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From Fortune 500 to CLIMACT, Offsetting At The End Of The Line
Those following the carbon offset market closely might be wondering about the differences in missions and motives between providers who are in it for profit,
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JP Morgan's Bruce Tozer on Purchasing ClimateCare and the Future of Carbon Offsets
The announcement last month that ClimateCare had been bought by JP Morgan signaled the Wild-West climate offset business has reached a milestone - it's now a business big enough ($9.4 billion in offsets traded last year) for the traditional financial
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135 Million Tons of CO2 Saved - And Counting
The UN's Kyoto Protocol is sometimes considered a bust because it doesn't include the US, yet recent statistics from Det Norske Veritas, the certifying agency of Kyoto's
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Some (Phytoplankton) Like it Acidic
It's generally accepted that increasingly acidified oceans could prove disastrous for most forms of marine life. We say most - coral reefs, certain phytoplankton species and larger organisms - because oceanographers are still hard at work studying the
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Brits Get More Climate-Labeled Goods
Walker's potato chips (known in the UK as crisps), Boots shampoo and the innocent smoothie were the first products that agreed to count up their carbon using
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Zerocarbonista: Dale Vince of Ecotricity Launches New Blog
Dale Vince, founder of UK-based green energy company Ecotricity, was pretty opinionated when we interviewed him last year, and his promise of a revolutionary new domestic wind turbine certainly cought our attention. We're hoping that Mr Vince's
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Low-Impact Avatar Man
An entire world is thriving in the virtual online community Second Life. With TreeHuggers in the game, elements of environmentalism are slowly seeping into play.
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Offsetting Your Movie Watching: Making DVDs Out of Smokestack-Captured Carbon Dioxide
What if reducing your emissions could be as easy as watching a DVD or listening to a new CD? We may not be there yet - and probably won't be for the next few years - but two chemists, presenting their findings at
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Vulcan Project: The Breath of a Nation
Credit the clever title to Andy Revkin. It is a map showing the concentrations of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. Watch the amazing video of the Vulcan Project, "an effort to quantify fossil fuel and CO2 emissions over the United States in high space
