Tag: Carbon Footprint - Page 3
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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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Blame The Boomers: They Have Highest Carbon Footprint Of Any Generation, And It Is Going To Get Worse
But the kids will get even when they take away the car keys and the boomer footprint gets a whole lot smaller.
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Breakthrough Technology Maps Rainforests In 3D, Including Carbon Storage
The technology from Carnegie Airborn University can map a forest from the air, detecting different species and even chemical compositions.
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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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Ask Pablo: Paper or Plastic? Spending Cash vs Credit Cards
The correlation between consumerism and environmental impact goes without saying but aside from the
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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
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Ask Pablo: Will iPads in the Cockpit Really Lower Airlines' Paper Use?
Photo by comedy_nose via Flickr CC Dear Pablo: Two airlines have recently switched from paper flight records to iPads. Is this really an environmental improvement? TreeHugger recently covered news of two airlines (, followed by United Continental) that
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TreeHugger Trivia: Google's Carbon Footprint and Electricity Consumption
We all know Google as the giant Internet company that serves the world billions of pages of search results, YouTube videos, email messages, and lots more, every single day around the globe. All
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Ask Pablo: Do Solar Panels Contribute To The Heat Island Effect?
Image credit: Bernd Sieker, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Does installing commercial rooftop solar PV (with the dark-colored PV cells) negate the effect of painting that same roof white to alleviate the "heat island" effect in
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Ask Pablo: Are Repurposed T-Shirts Carbon Neutral?
Image credit: Karen, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Say an average fancy t-shirt holds carbon footprint of 6kg but is never sold and sits in the warehouse of a textile/clothing production company. I take that same t-shirt and use it to
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Wear a Potato Poncho to the Music Festival
It's music festival time and camping time and if you are in the UK, it's raining time. And more rain. Thus we present the perfect (spud) poncho...made out of potato starch bioplastic, it's the eco friendly way to stay dry.
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Meat Eater's Guide: Get to Know the Carbon Footprint of Your Diet (Lamb, Beef, Cheese Are the Worst)
It's not news that meat and dairy are among the largest contributors to the world's growing carbon footprint, but lamb, beef, cheese, pork, and farmed salmon in particular generate the most greenhouse gases—sometimes
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Attempting a Green Family Road Trip
I have a confession to make. At the risk of provoking gasps of disapproval from the green gallery, I am declaring my love for The Road Trip. There is nothing quite like the exhilaration of the open
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Going Meat-Free One Day a Week Saves More GHG Emissions Than A 100% Local Diet (Redux)
Image: bgarciagi via flickr TH note: Thanks to Harvard Business Review a three year old study is making the media rounds for a second time. We covered it at the time and have analyzed the issue of over-simplication of food miles a number of times. But
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Climate Change Demands We Re-engineer The World Economy Now
The Guardian's Damian Carrington has an interesting blog post examining how the economy must shift to accommodate for growing carbon emissions, and therefore help reverse them. "To break the link between growth and carbon emissions, we must adopt a
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Gas or Electric Dryer - Which One is Greener?
As I mentioned in my somewhat controversial post on 5 un-green things I hate about America (before I start getting death threats again, I want to note that I also wrote 5 green things I love about America), I had never owned a clothes dryer till I came
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Organic Uses Less Energy, Searches for Even Lower Carbon Farming
Image credit: Suzette Pauwels, used under Creative Commons license. 80% of UK farmers may want to go solar, but the fact is that farming is still an incredibly carbon-intensive business. That's why two pieces of news from organic charity The Soil
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Is It Greener to Live in the Town or the Country?
From the carbon footprint of New Yorkers and the tiny fridges of Copenhagen to my own musings on rural green elitism, the consensus—here on TreeHugger at least—seems to be that city living trumps country living when it comes to
