UN offsets climate summit's carbon footprint

Striving to underscore the importance of efforts to reduce global emissions, a team of U.N. officials figured out the amount of carbon dioxide generated by a daylong climate conference — about 450 tons — and purchased offsets to neutralize its carbon footprint.

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if introducing Windows 7 involves buying a new computer that is bad news. By my calculation, almost any likely energy saving from running Windows 7 would be wiped out by bringing forward the purchase of your next computer by more than a few weeks.

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Times are Hard; Want Something That Really IS Free?

There are organizations spread throught the country that help people get rid of stuff they don't want and help people find things they need. The goal behind these organization is to keep as much stuff from hitting landfills as possible.

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And even as bottled water has come under attack as the embodiment of waste, Fiji seems immune. Fiji Water took out a full-page ad in Vanity Fair's 2007 green issue, nestled among stories about the death of the world's water.

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Now, maybe we missed something, but isn't this the Congress that: * Says it wants to cut spending? * Is so environment-conscious that it regularly complains about the evil carbon footprints allegedly left by private jets?

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For people who are looking for ways to reduce their "carbon footprint," here's one radical idea that could have a big long-term impact, some scientists say: Have fewer kids.

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Inevitably, in going about our daily lives — commuting, sheltering our families, eating, each of us contributes to the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. Yet, there are many things each of us, as individuals, can do to reduce emissions.

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Counterpoint ~ the pro's & cons of nuclear power to the mix*Updated add 4th generation nuclear power*

Recently I was listening to a documentary type radio programme on Australia's radio national which put forward the pro side of the idea to develop nuclear power plants into Australia and elsewhere to meet the future power needs of the community. Advocates such as the former Chie …

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Not only does Ecobot keep track of how many pages you print from your laptop, but it also tracks the wireless networks to which you connect and works with you to figure out how you got from one to the other, and calculates the carbon emissions required to make the journey.

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If you don't believe that global warming is man-made and will lead to catastrophe unless we severely control carbon emissions then you are a traitor. That's pretty bad.

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In this video, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 -- an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments.

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Mobile phone company Sony Ericsson will unveil two "green" handsets tomorrow with a carbon footprint 15% lower than current models.

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Interesting "calculation" of the temperature effects of reducing CO2 emmissions. While admittedly, there are some assumptions and "guesstimates" built into these calculations, just the orders of magnitude should tell us something.

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Amazon did great on the first quarter. Can it also help the book industry to go green now? yes it can and we're not talking about e-books or Kindle. More details on this post.

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Those who live in solar houses shouldn't throw stones, and yet an increasing number of celebrities are jumping on the green bandwagon before taking a look into their own public records.

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A study last year in California found homes built before 1983 were responsible for 70% of the greenhouse emissions related to single-family energy consumption.

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Boxed milk and juices are a supermarket staple, but one company is now selling boxed water.

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Tonga - Gods spew ten times more carbon in a day than what we humans will in a decade.

Nature is working full time at its best -The charges that we humans are causing the next mass extinction - the sixth in the history of life on Earth - are nothing but fiction.

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Too Little, Too Late to Save the Planet

FROM switching off lights, recycling waste to reducing our car use, government is encouraging us all to change our behaviour and reduce our carbon footprint. But are these actions too little too late to save us from ecological collapse?

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"Aren't we all just essentially being pressured to believe in a long-range climate forecast? And isn't this pressure largely being applied by politicians and political organizations no less? Who today would bet serious money on a weather prediction made a month in advance let alo …

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The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), a consortium of wind power supporters, based out of Brussels has announced some news that will have a lot of us pretty geeked.

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Prince Charles was accused of hypocrisy last night for using a private jet on an 'environmental' tour of South America. The prince will travel to the region next month in a visit costing an estimated £300,000 as part of his crusade against global warming.

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Out of a towering mountain of waste near Ben Gurion Airport, methane gas is being captured to create thermal energy for a nearby factory. In the Negev Desert, solar panels are on loan to Bedouin villages that don't have electricity, allowing the residents to run refrigerators  …

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With businesses scrambling to reduce their energy use — both to save costs and limit their carbon footprint — Microsoft and other software vendors are building tools that make tracking environmental data easier. Today, Microsoft is releasing a free add-on to its enterprise r …

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Great ideas for people who really want to go green, but find the costs prohibitive. These are all energy saving tips.

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