Tag: Carbon Dioxide - Page 12
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Book Industry Turns Over a New Leaf
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Someone pays somewhere. So it is with books. They provide us with knowledge and enlightenment, but that edification comes with a price. The U.S. book industry emits over 12.4 million tons of carbon dioxide into
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Bloomberg Congestion Fee a No-Go
Looks like New York City will be jam-packed with cars and toxic traffic fumes indefinitely. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to nail motorists entering Lower Manhattan with an $8 fee will probably not even make it to a vote. After a week of
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Down Under's First Geosequestration Project Launched
Last week Australia launched what was called the Southern Hemisphere's first large-scale geosequestration project. The media release further suggests it is one of the one of the most comprehensive commercial scale carbon dioxide storage projects on the
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Ev-eon Water Stores Carbon Dioxide
In the UK a lot of people are fighting to stop new coal burning power plants which promise Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). However it has not been figured out and even the Energy Minister says ""CCS is as yet unproven technology and we have to
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Offsets Are Big Business: Climate Care Acquired By JPMorgan
We already know that carbon offsets are not everyone's cup of tea, but we also know that they are becoming increasingly big business. In a move that indicates just how big we are talking, the UK pioneers of the offset industry, Climate Care, have
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Adapting To Global Warming: A Half-Baked Idea
The Los Angeles Times bumbled a story and a concept yesterday when it covered research by Roger A. Pielke Jr., a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. LA Times staff writer, Alan Zarembo stated:
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Quote of the Day: Design and Transport
Christoph writes from Austria on Anarchitecture:
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Biofuels as Help or Hindrance: WorldChanging Digs Deep
Biofuels have been getting a rough ride in the media recently. Only last month we saw headlines from two studies arguing that land use changes may nix any environmental benefits of many biofuels, while they have also been singled out as a contributing
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DHL Unveils Guilt-Free Shipping
Shipping has been trying to go green now for several years. UPS has efficient delivery vehicles, bicycles are being used to deliver all kinds of goods, FedEX is using diesel hybrid electric vans and there are now even electric delivery vans on the
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Mexico City Receives Payment for BRT Carbon Mitigation
In recent months, we've noted that two Mexican companies, Pemex and Cemex, are looking for ways to mitigate their carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto Protocol and get paid for it.
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Fair trade vs. Food miles: One Welshman's View
Brooks, for one,
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Radiohead's Thom Yorke Asks For Bigger, Binding CO2 Cuts
One of the unfortunate secrets behind the EU's recent directive to cut CO2 emissions 20 percent by 2020 is that adopting the directive doesn't mean countries will face penalties for failing to comply. Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Friends of the Earth
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Mexico's CEMEX Solidifies Carbon Credit Niche
Last year, we noted that Mexico's oil monopoly Pemex was investigating opportunities to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Development Mechanism, a pollutant trading system mandated under the Kyoto Protocol.
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RuralZED: UK's First Commercially Viable Zero-Carbon Home
The announcement back in 2006 that all new homes in the UK will be zero cabon by 2016 caused a wave of optimism in green circles. It has also no doubt spurred architects and developers to start exploring what such houses may look like — the
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The Stern Report for Australia From Ross Garnaut
When Britain's chief bean counter came out and said climate change is likely to be equal to two world wars and the Great Depression rolled in together, people round the world started to take notice. The Stern Report has become
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The TH Interview: Mike Mason of Climate Care, part 2
Mike Mason is the founder of Climate Care, one of the world's first carbon offset providers which recently celebrated selling 1 million tonnes of offsets so far, and has just opened an office in Australia. Since the beginning, Climate Care has focused
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Porsche Threatens Suit Agains 'Polluter Pays' Congestion Tax Hike
The Guardian reports that car-maker Porsche is in a snit and threatening a suit against a London mayor over a proposed law to boost the congestion tax for polluting vehicles each time they drive into London.
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The TH Interview: Mike Mason of Climate Care, part 1
Mike Mason is the founder of Climate Care, one of the world's first carbon offset providers which recently celebrated selling 1 million tonnes of offsets so far, and has just opened an office in Australia. Since the beginning, Climate Care has focused
