Tag: Carbon Offsets - Page 6
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"Carbon Nation" Pumps Up CO2 Reduction Solutions
It's stuff we all know about - compact fluorescent lighting, wind energy, efficiency, green jobs - the kind of stuff we talk about incessantly on TreeHugger.
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Carbonfund.org Offsetting 3 Billion Pounds of CO2
Three billion pounds is more carbon dioxide than many countries produce in an entire year—and thanks to 400,000 individual contributors and 1,000 business partners, that's how much the non-profit Carbonfund.org is
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Guayaki's Maté - "Carbon Subtracting" Beverage in Biodegradable Packaging
Biodegradable only good if it's being degraded Biodegradable packaging is a bit like carbon offsetting - of dubious value if it is only a band aid for our guilt. We actually must be biodegrading the packaging to make the premise work. Guayaki, which
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Carbon Capture Make Renewables Look Better, Suggests Swedish Report
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) seems to give the power industry a warm, fuzzy feeling. Vattenfall, Sweden's state-owned power utility has embraced the
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Cheaper, More Credible Carbon "Offsetting" through Permits, Says Village Green
Instead of funding tree planting in Indonesia, wind farms in China or methane capture right here at home, S.F.-based Village Green (of "Green My Vino" fame) is trying a different route - selling directly to consumers permits from the fledgling carbon
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The TH Interview: 2008 Brower Youth Awards (Part Two)
This week we hear from two more of this year’s Brower Youth Award winners. Marisol Bacerra has been using Google Maps and other media to plot toxic sites around her home neighborhood in Chicago. In Washington, D.C., Kari Fulton was singled out for her
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The TH Interview: 2008 Brower Youth Awards (Part One)
David R. Brower was a powerhouse of the American environmental movement—in fact, it’s pretty safe to say that without David Brower, the green movement wouldn’t be what it is today. Certainly not a man who slept late, Brower founded the Sierra Club
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Survey: Are Carbon Offsets a Good Wedding Present?
Graham Hill asked this in a post but we now put it into a survey: On his recent trip, Lori Majewski of dosomething.org discussed a quandary she had found herself in. A well to-do friend was to be married and owned a private jet. She needed to buy him
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Carbon Offsets for Your Private Jet Flying Pal?
The Big Cheese behind TreeHugger, Graham Hill, hit the Arctic as part of Cape Farewell's 2008 Disko Bay expedition to witness the direct environmental effects of climate change. Packed in snugly on a science research boat with
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Beauty: Nano-Steam Perm To Avoid Toxic Chemicals
A Tokyo hair salon claims to be the first to use "nano-steam" perm as a way to avoid the harmful chemicals commonly used in beauty salons. Insolite also carbon offsets its CO2 emissions (another first for a Tokyo hair salon) and works with Aveda to
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The Green Stampede Hits College Football — Greening the Gridiron
The University of Colorado, home of the Big 12 team the Buffaloes, has launched the "Green Stampede"—an initiative designed to limit the environmental impact of their home stadium and road games. The Stampede is
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Solar Roof Brings Vatican Closer to Becoming World's First Carbon-Neutral State
This week, the Vatican did its part to make the move to renewable energy, as workers began installing the first of 2,400 solar panels on the roof of the papal
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Dell's Customers Say: I'll Take the Computer, But Not The Tree
Photo Via Flickr: World Resources Institute Staff Dell’s Plant a Tree for Me program isn’t going too swiftly. The plan allows a customer to spend an extra couple bucks with the purchase of a notebook or desktop to help offset the carbon emissions
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Venice Fest Forgets the Eco-Details, but Green Art Installation Doesn't Disappoint
Despite the fact that Venice, CA seems to be the epicenter of SoCal's green lifestyle movement, the 24th annual Abbott Kinney Festival that took over the city's main drag on Sunday, September 28th was far from eco-friendly. After claiming last year
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Forgive Me Earth For I Have Sinned, It's Been One Week Since My Last Carbon Offset
There's no getting around the fact that despite the best intentions of many of us in the green movement, we live and work in a society which spews out a lot of carbon emissions. It's part of the structure of our nations and no matter
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Results of the 2008 Organization Carbon Offsetting Trends Survey
Planet Green is currently featuring a regular column on their website called Changemakers, featuring various everyday people and their businesses, and how they have made a commitment to not only reduce the carbon footprints in
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Name That Eco-Bunnie! Travelocity Contest Helps Promote Low-Carbon Travel
Sassy and funny Eco-Bunnies who save the world through cartoons deserve to have names.
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Ecorio Shows New Android Users Their Carbon Footprint
Most people are already well aware the Google unveiled the Android phone this week, and details are circulating through the internet. It's only a matter of time before Google launches an apps store for the Android — about a
