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Carbon Footprint

Zerofootprint and Cybernomics Launch One Minute ECOnomics Carbon Calculator

Jean Jerome Baudry | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Zerofootprint, Jean Jerome Baudry, Carbon Calculation, Cybernomics, Carbon Footprint, Canada, Green News
Jean Jerome Baudry

Calculator gives personalized metrics to business looking to employ a sustainability strategy within their IT department based on carbon measurement ...

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Water, Water Everywhere

Michael DeJong | Posted 04.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Footprint, Epa, Efficient Sewage Systems, Natural Spring Water, www.stopnestlewaters.org, Potable Tap Water, 100% Recyclable, Recycled Plastic Bottles, Michael Braungart, Environmental Impact, Nestlé Waters, La Vie, Landfills, US Environmental Protection Agency, H2o, 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report, William McDonough, Nestlé Purelife, Perrier, Carbon Footprint, Speaking Truth to Power, At-Home Water Filtering, Water, Cradle-to-Cradle, Every Brand Has a Story to Tell, Green-Washing, Poland Springs, Good Food-Good Life, San Pellegrino, Bottled Water, Vittel, Panna, Contrex, Green Living, Aquarel, Green News
Michael DeJong

When a company like Nestlé pipes-up about its unfounded environmental credentials with an attempt to address ecological concerns and to self-promote as a green steward, it's "super-greenwashing."

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Hybrid Cars Get Compliments -- Why Not My Bike?

Mark Klempner | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Bike Culture, Carbon Emissions, Biking, Bicycles, Hybrid Cars, Bike to Work, Going Green, Green, Community, Bicycle, Bicycling, Al Gore, Green Living, Bike, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Mark Klempner

Strange how people think it cool to drive a "green" car, but if they meet someone who doesn't own a car, they infer financial limitation, not ecological choice.

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Walking the Eco Talk: Green Media Veggies Follow Their Own Advice

Starre Vartan | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Vegetarian, Reasons to Be a Vegetarian, Vegetarianism, Food Politics, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Starre Vartan

A vegetarian diet is the single simplest thing you can change in your life to leave a smaller footprint on the Earth.

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10 Ways Power Shift is What Democracy Looks Like

Sarah Newman | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Ecology, Poer Shift, Activism, Green Energy, Enviornment, Youth Activism, Coal, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Sarah Newman

After surviving eight years of Bush & Co., change is within our grasp. It's not about one person leading the fight-we are all in this together now to stop global warming.

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Carbon Cap-and-Trade

Ginna Kelly | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Carbon-Dioxide, Carbon Cap, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Ginna Kelly

A cap-and-trade program is an example of free market environmentalism. It harnesses a company's creative forces to find effective ways to reduce emissions.

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Will Carbon Offsets Survive the Downturn?

Maura Judkis | Posted 03.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Offsets, Carbon Emissions, Economic Crisis, Brighter Planet, Environment, Credit Cards, Green Living, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Maura Judkis

Recently, I caught up with Patti Prairie, the CEO of offset provider Brighter Planet, to talk about how consumers will be green in tough times.

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The Octuplets and their Massive Carbon Footprint: 30,400 Disposable Diapers and Counting

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, California Octuplets, Green Living, Octuplets, Children, Raising Children, Family, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

In order to reduce global warming, should we regulate family size just as we regulate carbon emissions?

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A Day Without a Carbon Footprint

Seth Bauer | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Dan Matross, Pepsico, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Cooler, Green News
Seth Bauer

PepsiCo made a big, vitamin-C-filled p.r. splash this week when it released its calculations for the carbon footprint of a half-gallon of orange juice.

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PepsiCo Tracking The Carbon Footprint Of Orange Juice

Slashfood | Emily Matchar | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Food, Tropicana Orange Juice, Green Technology, Pepsico, Carbon Footprint, Green News

In this era of increasing environmental awareness, it's almost hard to believe that a company like PepsiCo doesn't already track its own eco-impact, b...

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Bad Apples

Stefan Deeran | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Green My Apple, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Apple, Greenpeace, Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, Carbon Disclosure Project, Global Reporting Initiatives, Green Business, Carbon Footprint, Greenbusiness, New York City Office of the Comptroller, Apple Carbon Footprint, Kristen Huguet, As You Sow, Green Century Equity Fund, Apple Environmental Problems, Sustainability, Gri, Green News
Stefan Deeran

Apple has released a statement opposing a proposal that would require the disclosure of their sustainability strategy, arguing there is enough environmental information on the company's website.

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Is Your Home As Green As It Can Be?

Jessica Jensen | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Saving Energy, Green, Energy Efficiency, Green Living, Home, Carbon Footprint, Sustainability, Green News
Jessica Jensen

We want to start 2009 off with an eco-bang, and so we're launching a new Green Home Contest.

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One Meat Lover's Low-Carbon Diet

audubonmagazine.org | Mike Tidwell | Posted 02.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Eating Matters, Climate Change, Food Politics, Vegetarianism, Meat, Low-Carbon Diet, Impact of Eating Meat, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Full disclosure: I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital of the Milky Way Galaxy. I worship slow-cooked, hickory-smoked pig me...

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Google Phone Green App Tackles Carbon Footprints

Green Inc. | Joe Hutsko | Posted 12.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Google Phone Carbon App, Google Phone, Carbon Emissions, Google Phone App, Pollution, Ecorio, Carbon Footprint, Google, Green News

While downloadable applications for the iPhone have enjoyed most of the spotlight since they began shipping, momentum is building for apps that run on...

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"HOLLYWOOD GOES GREEN" SUMMIT

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Stefanie Michaels, Hollywood Film Production Slows, Zahava Stroud, Green Initiatives, Hollywood Goes Green, Media, Green, Film, Tv, Los Angeles, Carbon Footprint, Entertainment Business, NBC Universal, Adventure Girl, Environment, Sustainable Solutions, Beth Colleton, Commercial Productions, Hollywood, Business News
Stefanie Michaels

The Hollywood Event to Focus Sustainable Innovation and Corporate Responsibility It seems like everyone is hopping on the "Go Green wagon" today, so ...

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Are There Just too Many People in the World?

Johann Hari | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Abortion, Women's Rights, Abortion Rights, Green Living, Feminism, Carbon Footprint, The Pill, Overpopulation, Famine, Mass Starvation, China, Global Warming, Politics News
Johann Hari

To achieve the green goal of dealing with overpopulation, it's necessary to mix some oestrogen into the environmentalist palette.

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President Obama's Climate Challenge

environment360 | Bill Mckibben | Posted 12.06.2008 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Environmental Policy, President Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, Carbon Footprint, President Elect Obama, Carbon, Cap and Trade, Green Energy, Nations Climate Change Conference, Green News

And so our eight-year interlude from reality draws to a close, and the job of cleaning up begins. The trouble is, we're not just cleaning up after a f...

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Long-Distance Relationships Are Bad For The Planet

Slate | Barron YoungSmith | Posted 11.24.2008 | Style

Read More: Air Travel, Locasexual, Long-Distance Relationships, Pollution, Love, Carbon Footprint, Your Energy Independence, Style News

You're sitting in the airport terminal, rolling your copy of the Economist into a sweaty tube and waiting to see a significant other who lives far awa...

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Want Greener Energy In Your Home? Try A Micropower Audit

Treehugger | Kimberley D. Mok | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Conserving Energy, Energy Use, Environment, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Green Living, Money Saving, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Interactive energy audit websites which allow you to reduce home energy costs (such as the free one offered by the U.S. Department) are now commonplac...

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Life Cycle: Green Wine

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Synthetic Cork, Biodynamic, Screw-Top, Yemm & Hart, Local, Forest Stewardship Council, Bottles, Most Wanted, Napa Valley, Emissions, Rainforest Alliance, Organic, Vodka, Bordeaux, Sustainable, Carbon Footprint, Green Living, Boxed Wine, Cardboard, Rhine Valley, Climate Change, Fetzer Vineyard, Food, Sarah Smarsh, Wine, Vineyards, Cork, Global Warming, Simran Sethi, Glass, Smartwood, Mediterranean, Green News
Simran Sethi

It's all about how far your wine has been shipped, and the materials used to package it. Aluminum screw-tops are more likely to be recycled than natural corks, and they prevent wines from going bad.

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Do "Quality" Carbon Offsets Exist?

Andrew Winston | Posted 11.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon Offsets, Carbon Footprint, Edf, Green News
Andrew Winston

Ideally, you want something that is measurable and legitimately reduces the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere (why spend money on something that may not accomplish what you hoped?).

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Emissions "Must be cut" by 80% by 2050 says British Climate Change Committee VIDEO>>

George Spyros | Posted 01.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Britain, Carbon Emissions, Great Britain, British Committee on Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Committee on Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News
George Spyros

With dramatic video of melting arctic ice crashing into the ocean, including *insert metaphor* the fjord in Greenland that is believed to have produ...

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Pet Peeve Week

Michael DeJong | Posted 11.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Gas Prices, Al Qaeda, Alternative Energy, Lobbyists, Washington, Veep, Spandex, Pet Peeves, Iraq, Mccain, Obama, Rant, Global Warming, Dc, Carbon Footprint, Julie Andrews, Environment, Trash, Climate Change, Solar Power, Torture, Git-Mo, Crackberries, Green News
Michael DeJong

I know that everyone reading this has a laundry list of things that leave them twisted and bitter just like me -- and this is your week to let it all out -- it's National Pet Peeve Week.

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Americans' Small Changes Mean More For The Climate

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Environment, Small Steps, Pollution, Money Saving, Carbon Footprint, Green News

The Daily Green reports that small changes by American consumers, such as using reusable shopping bags or even cutting out meat one day a week (or mor...

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Winterize Your House to Save Energy

Johanna Smith | Posted 11.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Winterize, Environment, Energy Conservation, Winter, Green Living, Home, Carbon Footprint, Green News

The simplest alternative energy source to tap in your home is energy saved. By taking a few steps towards increasing your energy efficiency, you can s...

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