Tag: Carbon Offsets - Page 2
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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
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Overstock.com Offers Carbon-Neutral Shipping, for Free
If you follow environmental issues, there's no doubt your e-mail inbox has been filled with messages in recent days and weeks. It's Earth Day, Earth Month, green season. One message that caught my
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Obama Resurrects Carbon Offsets (Nobody Says Thanks)
Carbon offsets have not exactly gone away—take Google's announcement in the summer of last year that it would offset 45,000 homes using carbon credits from landfill waste as a
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TickGreen: Wrestling Web Server Wattage
Australia's web servers produce at least as much carbon dioxide as 35,000 cars, according to TickGreen, who offer 100% certified carbon emission offset credits which are applied to the reforestation of Australian government state
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Best of Green: Travel and Nature
What's the best twitter feed by (yes, you read that right) an endangered animal? What's the most intriguing new species, the most powerful nature documentary, the eco travel tools that you must have before you hit the road? It's hard to narrow down the b
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Green Gardening Tools are Getting Brighter and Better
Last month this TreeHugger was complaining about how the most innocent of pleasures, such as guerrilla gardening, was being turned into a business. Now I have returned to Selfridges to re-test my thesis, as in shop.
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Carbon Trading is Far From Perfect, But What's the Alternative?
While some see it as the only viable way to curb our carbon emissions, and there is evidence that the EU's carbon trading scheme has helped reduce emissions, the fact that the global carbon market has grown to over
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A Carbon Offset Where You Get More Than Just A Good Feeling
You don't hear much about carbon offset programs anymore; There are a lot of reasons that they dropped below radar, (the last reference in TreeHugger appears to be 14 months ago and even then Mat started with an apology) but perhaps one reason is that
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Duke University Turns Pig Poop into Power (Video)
Image credit: Duke University Duke University's Bleed Blue, Live Green campaign created a clamor of attention from fans wanting to get hold of a limited edition shirt. So much so, we had to post a follow up on where to find the green Duke shirts. I'm
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Radical Product Transparency Via Carbon Mapping- Highlight from Opportunity Green
This past Thursday, at the business conference Opportunity Green, one panel entitled Next Generation Carbon Mapping: Radical Transparency and Truth in Advertising captured the attention of the standing room only audience at
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The Fjällräven Kanken Rucksack, a Swedish Eco-Design Classic
Last month, my partner gave me a Fjällräven Kanken rucksack for my 30th birthday, and I have to tell you about it, as this is a classic amongst the eco-designs nowadays. I first spotted these slightly odd-looking bags in London many years ago, and
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So Why Can't We Bother to Buy Carbon Offsets for Our Flights?
If you buy a carbon offset for the flights you take, you're in a small minority--at least according to a new survey by the UK Civil Aviation Authority carried out at Stansted airport last September. As reported by The
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Australian School Ditches Bottled Water, While Another Becomes First Carbon Neutral School
While no longer breaking news, the endeavours of students and staff at two different Australian schools still merits attention. One school went bottled water free, whilst
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Instant Offsets: Measuring Device Calculates Carbon Dioxide Absorption
Industrial designer Nitipak Samsen is concerned that "Global warming has been driven by capitalism, now we are trying to solve global warming through capitalism." He has developed a sort of mini-carbon offsetting device he calls a A.T.R.E.E.M.
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Voluntary Carbon Market Value Slashed in Half by 2009 Recession
We know that the Great Recession of 2008 & 2009 helped many nations slash their carbon emissions and lower deforestation rates--decidedly good things--but it also slashed in half the value of the voluntary carbon
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Another Major Blow for Carbon Capture, This Time It Involves the "C" Word
Mongstad industrial area at night. Photo Tøssekaien via flickr. The Norwegians have been big supporters of carbon capture and storage, and the government helped get the public to go along with building of a gas-fired plant near an existing oil refinery
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U2 Responds to Mars Criticism With an Offset Website for Fans
Take that, Helen Roberts of Carbon Footprint. Earlier this year, Roberts accused the U2 360° Tour of having the carbon footprint equivalent to a trip to Mars. Ouch. For someone who prides himself on environmentalism
