Copenhagen - An Enormous Carbon Footprint

The United Nations estimates that the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference will leave a 40,584 tons carbon footprint.  This is equivalent to Morocco's footprint in 2006. The conference will be attended by...

Simple And Effective Ways To Reduce Our Carbon Footprint

Thomas Dietz and his team at Michigan State University have accumulated a list of 17 practices that could have a dramatic carbon-saving impact in the future. If Americans adopted these 17 simple lifestyle and...

Cambridge Scientists Work On Creating Warm "Ambient" Ice Cream

We all scream for ice cream, but would you scream for warm ice cream? Researchers from Cambridge University, in partnership with Unilever, are trying to develop a brand of ice cream that would be sold to consumers...

Save the Planet: Have Fewer Kids

An article in Live Science advocates having less kids to reduce carbon outputs.  This really is a modest proposal. "For people who are looking for ways to reduce their "carbon footprint," here's one radical idea...

Greening The Internet: How Much CO2 Does This Article Produce?

You are leaving a carbon footprint while reading this piece of article. Yeah, that's true. With every passing second you are releasing more CO2 in the atmosphere. The amount may be only a few milligrams but with...

Bundanoon: First Bottled Water Ban in the World

Bundanoon, Australia, has become the first town in the world to ban bottled water. John Dee, the director of Do Something, an environmental group that helped bring about a plastic bag ban in Tasmania, confirmed that...

1L milk produced by Fonterra releases 940g of carbon dioxide

A study done by the University of New South Wales, Scion and AgResearch found that a carbon footprint of 940 grams of carbon dioxide is created per litre of milk produced by the Fonterra company in New Zealand. 85%...

Carbon Footprint of US Junk Mail Equivalent to 480,000 Cars

Direct marketing really has got out of control.   "The average person in the US receives nearly 11 pieces of junk mail each week, or 560 pieces a year. This amounts to 4.5 million tons of junk mail...

Craigslist Scammer Scammed by Skunkfeathers

Editor’s note: The post below was written and published by my friend, Skunkfeathers, at his blog of the same name.  While I’ve condensed it slightly to reduce its carbon footprint (just kidding), I have...

Earth Day: April 22nd, a day to celebrate our planet

Earth Day falls this year on April 22nd, and it is a day to take a second to appreciate our planet, what it gives us, and what we need to give back. Earth Day has gained some popularity since it was first started in...

Army aims to reduce greenhouse gases, 'carbon bootprint'

"WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 6, 2009) -- The Army has embarked on a service-wide effort to measure its "carbon bootprint," with the aim of reducing the effect it has on the environment while at the same...

First Carbon Neutral Mobile Phone

Motorola has teamed up with Carbonfund.org to battle electronic product waste by its early 2009 release of the world's first climate change aware cellphone, the Renew MOTO W233. This environmentally designed...

First CarbonFree® Mobile Phone

Motorola has teamed up with Carbonfund.org to battle electronic product waste by its early 2009 release of the world's first climate change aware cellphone, the Renew MOTO W233. This environmentally designed...

1 of 7 Green Ways: 'Turn Down Central Heating & Turn Up Human Heat'

Same Green Attitude and Great Humor, Better Graphics, Green Thing Version 2 goes Live and offers 7 Things You Can Do To Lead A Greener Life in their Welcome to V2.Here is their list:1. You get from A to B without any C when you Walk The Walk2. It’s delicious but it causes...

Will Aliens find carbon footprints?

Alien Zlog and his side kick Asbo are back and on the look out for our carbon footprints. They find the ‘higher ups’ frown upon the footprints of the ‘lower downs’, especially when they are ‘holidaying’. Asbo visits the beach to find out more. Zlog and Asbo...

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