Tag: Carbon Neutral - Page 3
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7 Out of 10 College Bound Students, Prefer Green Universities
A Recent Princeton Review survey shows that most college applicants today are becoming increasingly interested in how green their prospective universities are. Of these statistics, 68 percent of the students surveyed admitted that
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Airplane to be Recycled as Classroom
Fasten your seatbelts, an 82ft-long commercial airliner is to be used as the UK's (the world's?) first classroom for primary school pupils.The Short 360, originally a commuter plane, was decommissioned after thousands of hours of
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Number of the Day: More Than Half of All Vehicles' Trips to Work in US are 11 Miles or Less
37% -- Vehicle trips to work that are 5 miles (8 kilometers) and less represent 37%, according to
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Carbon Neutral on a Shoestring
TreeHugger Petz dominates the home section of the New York Times with a profile of her amazing green renovation of a flat in an 18th century building in Barcelona. When she started it had no heating or
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Carbon Footprint Barcodes on the Horizon?
We can all agree that for right now, green labeling is a bit of a crock. It's tough to identify it, let alone figure out if it's truthful or not. You need to be quite the sleuth. While industries and non-profits are working on getting better labeling
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Outdoor Gear Brand, Golite, Works its Name Into an Eco Business Philosophy
GoLite is the brand name of a line of backpacking gear designed to to take a weight off one's back. But it's also a philosophy that the company have progressively been embracing to ensure their own company operations and their product go lightly on
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Hydrogen Powered Robots and More at World's Largest Solar & Fuel Cell Expo (video)
Tokyo is currently hosting the world's largest extravaganza of photovoltaic (solar cells) and fuel cell technology, PV & FC Expo 2009, at Tokyo Big Sight. The event caters for manufacturers and investors so there are a lot of highly technical stalls,
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Anti-Coal Protest Gives Congress a Kick in its Coal-Fired Butt
Photo Kate Davison via Capitol Climate Action @ flickr. At a demonstration yesterday at the Capitol Power Plant, USA Today estimates several thousand Washington protesters turned out to block the gates to the facility and tell the members of Congress
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Abu Dhabi to Debut Personal Rapid Transit "Podcars" Later This Year
The designers of Masdar City, Abu Dhabi's new post-petroleum city, are not bound by the usual set of rules and constraints. Money is not really an issue, and the political
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"Masdar is the Catalyst": An Interview with Jay Witherspoon, Masdar City Technology Director
Jay Witherspoon works for CH2M Hill, a global project management, consulting and engineering firm that was chosen to manage the development of
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Ask Pablo: Is Bottled Water Really So Bad?
Over the past few years journalists and commentators have denounced bottled water as an environmental evil. I can count myself as one of those after my article about the greenhouse gas emissions from producing and transporting one bottle of Fiji water
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Masdar City Announces First Corporate Tenant: GE Ecomagination
GE will be the first corporate tenant to set up shop in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi's nascent eco-city. The Masdar Initiative, which is managing the new city's construction, made the
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World's First Post-Petroleum City Rising in Abu Dhabi
While some of the plans for new ecological cities elsewhere in the world have faltered of late, work on Abu Dhabi's Masdar City is already well underway
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Dubious Dubai Hits Pause Button
As John noted earlier, a dropping tide sinks all boats. Spiegel Online tells us that The Donald's hotel on Dubai's Palm Jumeirah island has been "postponed." A lot of other projects are tanking as well, perhaps bringing to an
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Masdar, Abu Dhabi: Dubious No More
We have shown so many awful projects in Dubai and Abu Dhabi that it was hard to take projects like Masdar seriously; are they real or greenwashing? Now it appears that Lord Foster's Masdar is under construction and
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Dongtan, China's Flagship Ecocity Project, R.I.P.
The emergence of the "ecocity" concept has been one of the most exciting trends in city design in recent years. As the idea gained traction and exposure, a string of ambitious ecocity projects were announced
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Clif Family Winery Introduces Green My Shipment
While buying wine locally is usually a better option, sometimes it's simply not feasible to find high quality wineries close to home. Now Clif Family Winery is making it easier to offset your shipping. We all know what an
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Controversial Artist Justifies Bad Behaviour in the Arctic
Why do we all keep leaving the lights on, driving our cars and hopping on airplanes when we know full well it's damaging the environment? There may be several answers to this question: necessity, convenience, selfishness? The connection between
