I’m not a big fan of carbon trading but there is good news insofar that two Canadian provinces, Ontario and Quebec have decided to tackle environmental concerns. The Canadian federal government has followed the lead of Bush’s administration and have tried to stop any environmental progress, indeed they even say Ontario and Quebec are wrong [...]
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Tesco Labels Food with Carbon Footprint
April 17, 2008 – 9:55 am
In Feburary the New Yorker looked into the complexity of carbon footprint labeling of food, and the article spent a lot of time looking at Tesco’s efforts. The most important point from that article (I think) is that it sometimes makes environmental sense to eat food shipped from other parts of the world. Eating locally [...]
Carbon Monitoring for Action
December 13, 2007 – 11:17 am
CARMA is an organization that monitors carbon produced by power plants around the world. They have an interactive map to visualize what parts of the world are the worst offenders, you can also see which companies are the worst polluters. It’s great to see a site that puts all of this information into one [...]
Internet Saves Millions of Tons of Carbon
December 6, 2007 – 3:37 pm
The internet is quite kind for the environment, which I guess is why good news appears on this website and not on paper handed out on city streets. Ecogeek has a post about a published report on how much carbon is saved by using the internet.
E-Commerce will reduce emissions by 200 M tons
-Telecommuting will prevent [...]
A Very Very Green Building
November 9, 2007 – 12:18 pm
Granted, many many years ago most places humans lived had little impact on their surrounding environment, and today we’re learning how to do that again. This time though, we got style.
Inhabitat has a story on the greenest LEED building ever built.
The building produces 15% more energy than what it consumes by using 198-panel 39.6 kilowatt [...]
Negative Carbon Output
October 17, 2007 – 12:36 pm
Terra preta is apparently wonderful and will help us fight climate change. World Changing has a great post about the human made fertilizer that will probably answer all your questions about terra preta.
Because terra preta locks so much carbon in the soil, it’s also a form of carbon sequestration that doesn’t involve bizarre heroics [...]