Tag: Carbon Footprint
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No-petroleum sunglasses crafted from castor bean oil
Plastic is all around us. Zeale of Boulder, Colorado has found a way to made high-grade optical lenses out of plant-based materials. They are made from castor oil, that old bane of childhood.
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Is Obama the "environmental President?" Yes or no, he can still win climate fight
Obama's climate record has been "a runaway success", writes Jonathan Chait. David Roberts doesn't disagree, but puts the claim in context.
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Should we stop flying and live in a "Hundred Mile Habitat"?
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill likes to travel, and gets taken to task for his carbon footprint. Should he be?
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Gas-burning patio heaters continue to glow in Paris
It's the City of Faint Red Lights as Paris cafés get to keep their patio heaters and overturn a proposed ban.
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Baby Boomers have the biggest carbon footprints
They have the most money and they spend it on driving and air travel.
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Which are greener, food trucks or sit-down restaurants?
Food trucks are a phenomenon right now, but are they good for the environment? It's complicated.
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Can Fair Trade Coffee Be More Fair?
Miguel Zamora, Director of Coffee Innovation at Fair Trade USA thinks Fair Trade is too exclusive.
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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.
