Tag: Carbon Emissions - Page 7
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How Carbon Offsets Help Fight Pneumonia
Investing in clean cookstoves may be the single most effective anti-pneumonia intervention there is. And carbon offsets help make that happen.
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Ask Pablo: Diesel vs. Hybrid, Which Is Better?
Pablo compares hybrids with diesel cars to find out which is more sustainable.
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Move Away From Fossil Fuels by 2017 or Dangerous Climate Change is Inevitable, IEA Says
Our use of fossil fuels keeps expanding at such a rate that unless we change that, moving quickly towards low carbon energy sources, "the door will be closed forever" on preventing climate change.
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Wine Industry Establishes System to Calculate GHG Emissions
The Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol will allow wine industry players to rate their environmental performance using a standardized method.
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Exceed 'Worst Case' Scenario
Given what we know about climate change, one might expect to see a drop or leveling-off of global carbon output. In reality though, it's gotten worse. Much worse.
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World's Largest Shipping Companies Set Sustainability Goals
The largest companies in the global shipping industry have announced a formal agreement detailing steps they will take to reduce emissions and life-cycle impact.
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Meet The Best in Green Business, Product Innovation + Celebrity Campaigners at The International Green Awards 2011
This November the glittering Gala Ceremony for the International Green Awards will take place in London and you can be there.
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Richard Heinberg on Reaching The End of Growth (Podcast)
Richard Heinberg (author of The Party's Over and Peak Everything) talks about his new book, The End of Growth, and explains why you can't have unlimited growth on a finite planet.
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California Passes First State Cap-and-Trade Program in US
The plan, part of the state's climate change law AB32 mandating carbon emissions be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020, starts in 2013 and covers 85% of the state's climate polluters.
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The Week in Animals News: Mass Animal Escape, Sweaters for Penguins, and More (Slideshow)
Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.
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Australian Company Will Kill Camels for Cash, Carbon Credits
As you've likely heard, Australia is en route to pass legislation ensuring that its largest polluters pay for their carbon emissions. The new law will allow companies to reduce at least part of their emissions by
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Newsweek's 2011 Green Rankings Are Out
Newsweek has been releasing a green ranking of America's and the world's biggest companies for a few years now, and the 2011 results are in.The Top-Ranked Green Companies: In the U.S.: IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint Nextel,
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New Carbon Tax Means 1 Million Australians Won't Have to Pay Income Taxes
You might have already heard that after a long and arduous political battle, Australia is on track to institute a fairly potent carbon tax. After the measure passes the upper house (where the
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Gernot Wagner on The Futility of Going Green and the Economics of What Really Matters (Podcast)
If bringing your canvas bags to the grocery store, carpooling, and forgoing double cheeseburgers makes you feel good about yourself, terrific. But don't expect the planet to notice. What the world needs, says Environmental Defense Fund economist Gernot
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The Greenest Way to Travel (Infographic)
The folks at 1BOG (short for One Block Off The Grid) have developed this interesting infographic about the greenest mode of transit depending on the type of journey. Click through to check it out. Home Solar Power
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European Union Court Adviser Backs Plan to Include Airlines In Emissions Trading Scheme
The airline industry is supposed to join the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—already a requirement for other heavily polluting industries—in January, but the industry has been fighting the requirement.
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Documents Reveal Shell Paid Nigerian Military to Suppress Protests
Interesting news from The Guardian this week: oil giant Shell worked with the Nigerian military and with mobile police to suppress protests against its oil activities in the 1990s, according to court documents that were
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World Contraception Day is For Women's Rights, But It's For the Environment, Too
The connection between increased access to family planning and greenhouse gas emissions has been covered here before, but since World Contraception Day was this week and we're still so far from where we need to be on
