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How to reduce your carbon footprint - Green Wiki
There are a number of ways to reduce your carbon footprint and live a more earth-friendly lifestyle. Some of them are more feasible than others. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of all the aspects of sustainable living and provide more in-depth information on various sub-pages.
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Shell undermine protection for endangered whale | alexlockwood.net
Oil giant Shell is accused of influencing–editing–an environmental report on the impact of the Sakhalin II oil project, which threatens the habitat of the western grey whale.
The Sakhalin project will “also release 1.6m tonnes of carbon dioxide, three times the UK’s annual carbon footprint.
Identifying the wider impacts of Shell’s activities in this way is an important contribution to revealing the externalised/hidden costs (generally environmental ones) in the production of consumable resources.
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Beyond carbon: Scientists worry about nitrogen's effects - International Herald Tribune
Public discussion of complicated climate change is largely reduced to carbon: carbon emissions, carbon footprints, carbon trading. But other chemicals have large roles in the planet's health, and one that a growing number of other researchers are also concentrating on, is nitrogen.
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Carnegie Mellon urges industry to broaden carbon footprint calculations
Because there is no universally accepted way of calculating someone's carbon footprint, dozens of carbon calculators have sprung up on the Internet in the past few years creating confusion and inaccurate information.
In practice, most companies reporting their greenhouse gas emissions opt to use only tier one or the tier two boundary. To put the implications of this boundary decision into context, Carnegie Mellon researchers H. Scott Matthews, Chris T. Hendrickson and Christopher L. Weber, have developed a new method that estimates the amount of greenhouse gas emissions across all tiers of the entire supply chain for all industries.
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Army base tracks its carbon 'bootprint' - Los Angeles Times
The US army is starting to track its carbon footprint. This is big. The US Army is a massive purchaser of energy. Increasing energy costs are hurting their budgets. And they have no interest in having their soldiers guarding oil pipelines in Faroffistan!
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Salon Conversations: Elizabeth Royte, "Bottlemania" | Salon Life
Why drinking bottled water is really bad for the environment
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Information on cars’ CO2 emissions
A site which rates cars by their CO2 emissions
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