Tag: Carbon Footprint
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On the East Coast, a Sailing Regatta with Carbon Neutrality
Using alternative fuels, carbon offsets, and strict on-board rules, the Atlantic Cup aims to be the first carbon-neutral race in the U.S.
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New Cable Car to Be Built Across the Thames for Olympics
You may be able to take a cable car to the Olympics this summer, if it is ready in time.
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Websites Can Show Carbon Footprint of Products or Services by Adding One Line of Code
Brighter Planet has developed a new web tool that lets any website display the carbon footprint of products or services by inserting a single line of code.
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Wineries For Climate Protection – the Manifesto!
Here's the manifesto by the Spanish wine industry to fight climate change by making wineries more eco-friendly. Vines are very sensitive to climate change and so their environment, landscape, culture and tradition need protecting.
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Here Come the First Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants
The agency will unveil the new rules as early as today—expect this one to get ugly. Fast.
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Honestby Makes Organic Clothes with Full Disclosure
Honestby clothes tell you the everything you ever wanted to know--and more--about the provenance of each item.
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Laser Un-Printers Could Remove Toner Ink from Paper
A new laser technology could remove toner ink from yesterday's office memos and Excel spreadsheets, creating clean sheets of paper for instant reuse.
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Verizon to Reduce Carbon Footprint 50% by 2020, CEO Says
At the Bloomberg New Energy Finance summit today, the CEO of one of the nation's largest telecom firms announced they'll be cutting their carbon intensity by half over the next decade.
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How Carbon Offsets Can Help Provide Clean Water for All
A UK offset company launches a world-first partnership to finance Life-Straw water purifiers in Africa.
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Networked Environmental Data Is Key to Driving Sustainability Mainstream
If sustainability is going to become truly mainstream, we need millions of companies to engage, not thousands.
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Drive-by Technology Measures Exact CO2 Emissions with Infrared Sensors
Tech company Picarro has developed a method of accurately measuring carbon emissions on the urban scale.
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There's Nothing Small About Shrimp's Carbon Footprint
Perhaps no other animal on Earth is so synonymous with all things diminutive as the modestly framed shrimp -- but, as it turns out, not everything about those famed crustaceans is small.
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Hackathon Brings Together Eco-Minded App Developers
The weekend-long CleanWeb Hackathon brought together eco-minded developers who churned out 15 new apps for helping individuals and businesses reduce their energy use.
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Supermarket May Cancel Carbon Labeling Scheme
A once lauded scheme to label all produce with its carbon footprint looks set for the scrap heap. What does that mean for corporate carbon footprinting?
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"Insect Proteins" as a Food Additive? EU Invests in Eating Bugs
The European Union is spending $4 Million in 2012 for research into using insects as a novel source of protein. How soon before an insect-based food additive hits fast food chains near you?
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Prince Charles Donates Millions to Combat Climate Change
Prince Charles has donated a fortune to fight climate change royally.
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Ask Pablo: Is It Really Better To Recycle Paper?
Dear Pablo: I have a tough one for you: shall we recycle our paper? There are both the CO2 and the chemical aspects to consider, and there's arguments against recycling paper in each case.
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When It Comes To Our Carbon Footprint, Only Two Things Really Matter: Buildings and Cars
Everything else really is barely more than a rounding error.



























