Tag: Environmental Footprint - Page 2
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By 2050 We're All Likely To Be Using Fewer Resources, Whether We Like It Or Not
The latest UN report on sustainable development reads like the TreeHugger archive, in terms of sustainable development solutions.
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Will Video Games Ever Become a Tool for Environmental Change?
We've seen video games with eco-themes pop up more often over the last few years, but will they ever hit mainstream?
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Do the Uninformed Kill Progress on Stopping Climate Change?
A recent study suggests that an uninformed population can steer consensus away from the opinion of a well-informed minority.
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Microsoft "Eye On Earth" Project Uses The Cloud for Environmental Science
Using the cloud to coordinate scientists and data, this new program could help advance our understanding of the environment.
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GoodGuide Launches "Purchase Analyzer" To Help You Buy Better, Save More
Like a Mint.com for savvy shoppers, GoodGuide makes safer, smarter online purchases easier than ever to find.
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Carbon Nanotubes in Environment Affect The Growth of Algae
It's still difficult to say how carbon nanotubes that make their way into the environment will affect flora and fauna, but some possibilities are already known
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New Gum Is Degradable and Easily Removed From Desks and Sidewalks
Throwing out gum isn't much better for the environment than swallowing it is for your stomach. That's because conventional gum doesn't biodegrade. At all. And Americans chew around 100 million pounds of the stuff every year.
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Ask Pablo: Do Solar Panels Contribute To The Heat Island Effect?
Image credit: Bernd Sieker, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: Does installing commercial rooftop solar PV (with the dark-colored PV cells) negate the effect of painting that same roof white to alleviate the "heat island" effect in
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The 6th International Green Awards Are Calling for Your Entries
Have you got what it takes to win an International Green Award? These awards have built an increasingly prestigious profile over the last few years with both pioneering names and young innovators being rewarded for their extraordinary work in promoting
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Take Action: Ontario's Proposed Mega-Quarry Could Contaminate Drinking Water for A Million People
As Lloyd detailed in an earlier post on the enormous ecological footprint of concrete, a US-owned hedge fund is proposing a mega-quarry in Melancthon, about an hour and a half away from
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First Packaging-Free, Zero-Waste Grocery Store In US Coming To Austin, Texas
It's gotten harder and harder over the years to avoid excess packaging when shopping for everyday items, but plans are in the works for a store in Austin (also the home of Whole Foods) that will specialize in local and organic
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Ask Pablo: What's The Impact Of Imported Tropical Fruit?
In our globalized world, products travel halfway around the world all the time. Water is shipped from
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Major Brands Say Goodbye to Excess Packaging
Good news, according to the New York Times: excess packaging, plastic in particular, is on the decline. Apparently more because of high oil prices than any environmental concern, but we'll take it. The Times has examples of
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10 Lessons for Planning an Environmental-Friendly Music Festival
Big music festivals, such as Bonnaroo, Coachella and Outside Lands have all taken steps to make their events more eco-friendly, but staging such an event is a huge challenge and keeping the ecological footprint small
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Are Our Assumptions About Ecological Footprint Statistics Backwards?
It's very near central dogma of the contemporary environmental movement that providing people with more information about their energy usage, consumption of consumer goods, their food choices, their lifestyle
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Why Peer Pressure is a Mixed Blessing in Going Green
When I wrote about residents who turned their entire street into an energy graph, I was interested to note that the project deliberately avoided
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Imported Products Undo All Developed Countries' Emissions Reductions Since 1990
Here's some news that should be obvious on some level, but is now backed up with the data to prove it: the cuts in carbon emissions that developed countries have made since 1990 have been cancelled out "many" times over by
