Tag: Carbon Offsets
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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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Microsoft Imposes a Carbon Price on Itself
The tech giant announced that it will be carbon neutral by the next fiscal year. To do so, it's essentially enacting a carbon pricing system on its own operations.
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This Micro-Algae Lamp Absorbs 150-200 Times More CO2 than a Tree! (Video)
French scientist has invented a light powered by algae that absorbs CO2 from the air--1 ton per year! The microalgae streetlamp has the potential to provide significantly cleaner air in urban areas and revolutionize the cityscape.
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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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Americans Getting Tired of Clean Coal, Biofuels, Carbon Offsets & Cap-and-Trade
Though feelings about solar power, wind power, and hybrid cars remain high, a new survey shows some definite declines in how Americans feel about other cleantech concepts.
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A Pleasant Surprise: Super Bowl XLVI Goes Green!
I was surprised when I realized Super Bowl XLVI's efforts to go green, and I want to know what you're doing too.
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What Role Do Carbon Offsets Play in a Struggling Economy? Q&A with the Carbon Neutral Company
Are carbon offsets still relevant in turbulent economic times, and how has the concept evolved? Join us for a live chat with the Carbon Neutral Company to find out.
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Improved Cooking Technique Slashes Coal Use. Is Funded Through Carbon Offsets (Video)
Carbon offsets have traditionally gone to technological improvements or reforestation. One group is teaching a different way of cooking. And it's using offset funds for the training.
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British Columbia's Quest for Carbon Neutrality
In 2007 BC's Premier shocked North America when he announced his government's bold Climate Action Plan. Is it working?
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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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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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Are Carbon Offsets Irrelevant? Maybe They Always Were...
When I wrote about the new UK Carbon Reporting Framework which connects potential project funders with CO2-cutting initiatives, I noted that they were not calling it offsets. In
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Bringing 5 Million Rocket Stoves To Women Worldwide: The Paradigm Project
It may sound unbelievable but it's true: smoke inhalation from cooking over an open fire kills 1.6 million adults and children yearly. Not only that, in Africa, for example, women walk up to 15 miles each trip to find wood
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Oxfam Takes on Land Grabs -- Rich Investors: "They're Not Countries, They're Commodities"
Despite years-old warnings against the increasing trend of land grabs by rich countries in poorer countries, the practice continues with little notice. Oxfam says that "in many cases, the land sold is actually being used by poor families: for homes, to
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Don't Call It Offsets: Site Connects Sponsors to Domestic CO2 Reduction Projects
There was a time when protesters where occupying offset companies, decrying these "modern day indulgences", but carbon offsets seem to have slipped off the radar of late. Nevertheless, many companies and
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Profit for Good: Carbon Credits Bring Clean Water to Rural Kenya
I spent part of last month walking from home to home in Kagamega, Kenya, a mostly-rural region known for one of the last remaining tracts of the Congolese forest belt. It is not dissimilar to so much of the developing world,
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Voluntary Carbon Market Grew To Record High Volume in 2010
While the green community's view of carbon offsets, either personal or corporate,
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Stanford Students Answer Environmental Dilemmas from the Public
From whether barefoot running is green to the thorny conundrum of plastic versus paper versus reusable bags, our very own Pablo has answered many an environmental dilemma in his time. But he's not alone in dispensing sound, science-driven environmental
