September 25, 2009, Posted by admin at 11:48 am
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By John DeFore
Green Right Now
Tesla Roadster
Environmentally-sensitive lifestyles and luxury goods would not, to many of us, seem to go together very well. People who own billion-dollar yachts, for instance, aren’t exactly worrying about their carbon footprint.
But plenty of purveyors of high-end goods hope to fight that assumption. Gathering a few steps from Central Park at
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September 25, 2009, Posted by admin at 7:14 am
More companies are thinking about their emissions, a new report finds — but still far from all.
According to the most recent data from the Carbon Disclosure Project, an independent non-profit that gathers voluntary information regarding carbon emissions from more than 2,000 companies around the globe, more companies than ever are making carbon planning
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September 23, 2009, Posted by admin at 11:50 pm
Reuters Smoke rises from the Belchatow power plant in Poland — Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant. Prompted by a court ruling, the European Commission said Wednesday it would come up with new plans regarding carbon emissions for Estonia and Poland.
A court on Wednesday said Poland and Estonia could challenge limits placed by the European
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September 23, 2009, Posted by admin at 7:50 pm
LONDON, United Kingdom — [Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on BusinessGreen, and is used with permission.]
The British Computer Society (BCS) yesterday unveiled a new Green IT qualification aimed at IT professionals working to reduce the environmental impact of their operations.
The trade body, which is
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September 23, 2009, Posted by admin at 7:50 pm
SAN JOSE, CA — A combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy and promotion of more environmentally friendly behavior will be used to cut eBay’s greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2012.
The e-commerce giant unveiled its first greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal this week in
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September 23, 2009, Posted by admin at 3:12 pm
Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the story, carrying its message across time to us today.
Results of the research appear in this week's issue of the journal Science.
The researchers were surprised to find that
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September 23, 2009, Posted by admin at 2:03 pm
Shutterstock Should “even-age” forest management be part of a carbon offset protocol?
Air regulators in California are poised to adopt a new framework for measuring and managing greenhouse gas offsets associated with forest projects. But some environmental groups are balking at a provision that they say leads to the unhealthy practice of clear-cutting — or
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September 22, 2009, Posted by admin at 7:50 pm
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By Amelia Harnish
By 2011, the nation’s airports will process 2.75 billion passengers, a nearly 30% increase from 2006, according to theInternational Air Transport Association. With staggering growth comes staggering pollution from an industry already one of the top contributors of carbon emissions (and exempt from coverage under the Kyoto Protocol), not to mention dangerous
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September 22, 2009, Posted by admin at 2:02 pm
Harry Cabluck/Associated Press Gov. Rick Perry of Texas assailed the climate-change bill, which would create a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, as a “legislative monstrosity.”
In a fiery speech in Austin today, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas blasted the Waxman-Markey climate-change and energy bill, which narrowly passed the United States House of Representatives in June and
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September 22, 2009, Posted by admin at 12:41 pm
As I’ve written before, ounce for ounce your little plastic charge cards arguably create a larger carbon footprint than any other single item you probably own. Well, maybe “create” is the wrong word; “enable” is more like it.
You see, the production, distribution and consumption of nearly all goods and services result in the emission
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