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Soccer teams will leave record carbon footprint
"Emissions of greenhouse gases from next year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa are expected to be 10 times those of the 2006 tournament in Germany"
Supermarkets get cold feet over fridge doors
What's the biggest and easiest thing that supermarkets could do to cut their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint? They all know the answer. Put doors on their fridges.
World first budget carbon assessment in Scotland - Low Carbon Economy
Scotland has achieved an environmental milestone by assessing the carbon footprint of its budget.
This world first initiative is part of the country's commitment to the Climate Change Act.
The government has explained that the carbon assessment is only a start in the nation's efforts to assess the consequences to the environment of spending plans.
Cities turn off streetlights to save money - USATODAY.com
The old-fashioned streetlight is the recession's latest victim. To save money, some cities and towns are turning off lights, often lots of them.\n\nThe cost-cutting moves coincide with changing attitudes about streetlights. Once viewed as helpful safety measures, the lights are increasingly seen by some public officials and researchers as an environmental issue, creating light pollution and burning excess energy.
The low-carbon wine baa | Environment | guardian.co.uk
A New Zealand winemaker believes he has struck upon the solution to reducing the carbon footprint of wine – and the answer, which may come as no great surprise, lies in sheep. Miniature sheep, that is.
There are only 300 of them in the world and they were originally bred as cute miniature pets, but Peter Yealands believes that babydoll sheep could help him to reduce the environmental footprint of his wine.
U2 criticised for world tour carbon footprint | Music | guardian.co.uk
U2's world tour might make an enormous impression with its giant claw, but the environmental impact is reportedly just as staggering. According to an environmental group, the band's 44 concert dates this year have the equivalent carbon footprint of a return flight to Mars. And U2 have the same number of shows planned for 2010.
Carbon Footprints of Nations | NTNU
Check out the carbon footprint of any country - v interesting tool.
Clear Standards Carbon Tracker iPhone Application | Track Carbon Emissions for Commuting & Business travel
With Clear Standards Carbon Tracker for the iPhone, you can easily calculate the carbon footprint from your commuting, vacation, and business trips. Use the GPS feature while traveling to determine the length of each leg of your journey, so you don't have to guess the distance. Set monthly "maximum emission" goals and monitor your progress against your own personal reduction targets.
Greener Commutes: Volvo Employees Track Carbon Emissions With Mobile CO2 Pedometer App | Sustainability | Fast Company
Employees at the Volvo Group in Göteborg, Sweden have been asked to reach a new level of carbon emissions obsession with personal cell phone-based CO2 "pedometers" that calculate the emissions of their daily commutes.
More motorway lights to be turned off to cut carbon footprint
The UK Highways Agency is trying to cut its carbon footprint by turning off selected motorway lights around the country
Fake Christmas Trees Not So Green | LiveScience
Still debating on whether to go real or artificial for this year's Christmas tree? According to Newswise, the winner is that old-fashioned, living, breathing, carbon-sequestering noble fir (or any living Christmas tree, for that matter).
How IT can cut carbon emissions - The McKinsey Quarterly - How IT can cut carbon emissions - Information Technology - Management
The rapidly growing carbon footprint associated with information and communications technologies, including laptops and PCs, data centers and computing networks, mobile phones, and telecommunications networks, could make them among the biggest greenhouse gas emitters by 2020. However, our research also suggests that there are opportunities to use these technologies to make the world economy more energy and carbon efficient.
New Mobile Phone App to Track Carbon Footprint : CleanTechnica
A new software application will make keeping track of your carbon footprint as easy as having a mobile phone in your pocket. A London-based start-up has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning systems (GPS) to automatically figure out whether you are walking, driving or flying and then calculate your impact on the environment.
London firm unveils new software for mobile phones that can track transport and measure carbon footprint | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Keeping track of your carbon footprint could become as simple as slipping a mobile phone in your pocket: a London-based start-up company has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning satellites to work out automatically whether you are walking, driving or flying and then calculate your impact on the environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Salon Conversations: Elizabeth Royte, "Bottlemania" | Salon Life
Why drinking bottled water is really bad for the environment
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