Tag: Environmental Footprint - Page 12
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Greenpeace Putting Pressure on IT Industry to Walk the Climate Saving Talk
The IT industry tends to talk a lot about what technology can do for sustainability, and Greenpeace recognizes that the IT industry holds a lot of power in its hands to shape our carbon footprints. So the group has decided to ask
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World's Heaviest Energy Users Try to Lighten Up
In the energy-profligate United Arab Emirates--the country with the world's largest per-capita ecological footprint, more than five times higher than the global average--a few lone
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US Government Wastes $440.4 Million a Year on Printing
I worked on an air force base for awhile and saw the ridiculous amount of paper that government employees will go through in a day, not only through mindless printing practices, but also reporting protocol that encourages putting out
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World Population Growth Good News: Asia-Pacific Fertility Rates Starting to Decline
Undeniably human population growth is at the root of pretty much every single environmental problem we currently face. At the
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7 Eco Adventures that Could Kill You
Photo via Flickr Eco travel is all the new rage, but some trips require some real cohonas to take the plunge. From protecting sharks and crocodiles in Belize to biking Bolivia's Road of Death to volcano surfing in Nicaragua, these seven eco adventures
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Twittering for Trees and World Environment Day
Twitter is getting to be a great resource for charities and eco-activism, proven by the success of charity:water's twestival, earthtweet, and tweeting congress. Here's another great chance to use Twitter as a force of good. Plant
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Eat Local, Drink Local Beer
Image via Lightning Labels Blog Dear Pablo: My favorite beer comes from Germany and I am concerned about the environmental impact. Am I an eco-villain or does "eat local" not apply to beer?While "beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
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Green Games for Canada's 2010 Winter Olympics?
Torino, Salt Lake City, and China made sustainability promises for their Olympic extravaganzas, and now its Canada's turn to show its true green
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California's Plans for Biggest Desalination Plant Are a Go
The $320 million desalination plant planned for Carlsbad, California was approved earlier this week, making it a prime opportunity to test out how desalination might work as a way forward through the water issues the state faces. The New York Times
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Saul Griffith on Living the Examined Life and Flying Giant Kites (Part Two)
Last week we heard about Saul Griffith's exhaustive personal energy cataloging and the resulting WattzOn.com. In part two, Griffith talks about Makani Power, his company that builds giant kites for capturing elusive, high-altitude gusts. He also shares
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Business Card Company MOO Offers Smart Designs and Stateside Shipping
I've long been a fan of U.K.-based printing company MOO. Sure, MOO business cards are a little
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Interactive Carbon Impact Explorer Lets You See Your Carbon Offsets At Work
BeGreen launched a cool application that lets you get interactive with your carbon offsets. You can visually track the projects you support with your carbon offset purchases. It's the first online way to connect your carbon offset purchases with the
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LEED Goes 3.0 — and They Ain't Joking 'Round
The USGBC, and their insanely popular rating system LEED, have been on the frontlines of the green building movement for quite a while. Everyone has taken a shot at them at least once. There’s all the talk about how the credits are
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Vegan Footwear - Cowhugger Walk with Me
Photo from Modesto Junior College MooShoes, Inc. is a vegan-owned business that sells an assortment of cruelty-free footwear, bags, t-shirts, wallets, books (mainly cookbooks) and other accessories. It is the first cruelty-free store of its kind in New
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34 kg of CO2 to make a book (Book Review)
At Construmat this year, the international building and construction trade fair held in Barcelona every two years, the Government of Catalonia presented their project "34 kg of CO2", along side Casa Barcelona. 34 kg is the exact quantity of CO2 that
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Saul Griffith on Living the Examined Life and Flying Giant Kites (Part One)
After becoming a renewable energy entrepreneur (think massive kites), Saul Griffith started wondering about the greenness of his own life—so he started counting. The exercise became an exploration, which resulted in the website WattzOn.com, a power
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President Obama's Guide to Going Green
Obama issued an Earth Day proclamation yesterday, which sounded a call for protecting the environment, developing renewable energy, and creating measures to fight climate change. According to his statement, "no issue deserves
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Rush Limbaugh Celebrates Earth Day — By Saluting Coal and Overconsumption
Rush Limbaugh—a man about as far from an environmentalist hero as could possibly be imagined—nonetheless set out to celebrate Earth Day on his radio show today. Of course, he did so by extolling the virtues of coal, plastic
