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This series details the many ways we can lessen our eco impact via our everyday routines. In this post, the eco impact of DVDs and CDs are examined, along with tips to lessen your footprint on the earth by mildly changing the way you watch movies—from Netflix to Blockbuster to bootlegs on Canal Street. (Plus, the image is hilarious, if you can read the Harry Potter fine print.)

It is important that the individuals living in countries with large environmental footprints opt not to have children. One human being, depending on where they live, can produce between 21 (Luxemburg) to 0.7 (Georgia) tons of CO2 per year according to Time For Change, with the global average at about 4 tons of CO2 per person per year.

Reviewing research on over 500 forests, scientists in Europe and the United States have concluded old growth forests store more carbon dioxide than they release.  They are not carbon neutral, as previously believed.

Twelve states have announced yet another suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They claim federal regulators have failed in issuing the necessary standards to regulate green house gas emissions. The EPA’s rebuttal: it’s not in our job description.

In a paper that is available online and will be published in an upcoming issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Goldberg and his colleagues write about how a basalt formation off of the coast of Oregon and Washington could potentially store anywhere from 120-150 years of carbon produced by the United States in its cavities (assuming current U.S. emission rates do not increase).

17 million barrels of oil was used last year to make the plastic bottles used for American water consumption producing 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide. 86% become garbage or litter.

A person eliminating the average 330 plastic bags each person uses per year would save 1.31 gallons of oil and 30.5 Lbs of CO2 each year. Those 330 plasic bags add up to 5 lbs of garbage.

You can personally prevent a measurable amount of pollution from some of Europe’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters. For the price of 3 ABBA CD's.

Worldwide, computers are responsible for the same quantity of carbon emissions as the airline industry. It is a serious problem that requires a serious solution. We won't achieve this just by offsetting but by making serious changes to the way we do business.

On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency released a first draft of a rule that will govern the geologic sequestration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from power plants. Geologic sequestration of global warming gases, also known as “carbon capture and sequestration” (CCS), is viewed by many as a critical component of a climate change policy portfolio.

The G8 countries have endorsed bringing down the global greenhouse gas emissions by fifty per cent by the year 2050, however they did not specify a base year for emission cuts.

The Asian Development Bank announced on Tuesday that it has established a new carbon fund to provide financial support to clean technology initiatives in the Asia Pacific region that will continue to generate carbon credits post 2012. The fund- called the Future Carbon Fund will initially be worth...

Interview with President of SustainableWebsites.com on: Do you think companies should use carbon offsets to mitigate their global warming emissions?

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As the public debate continues on whether greenhouse gases contribute to global warming or whether we are going through a natural cycle, enormous political pressure and investment dollars are streaming into the solutions aspect of the debate. Discussions in North America on environmental policy and economic benefits are steaming ahead at all levels of government and in the corporate board room.Putting the debate aside, creating a carbon market that stimulates activity to address climate change provides everyone an opportunity to participate.

Carbon Offsets Daily : When do you think the domestic voluntary carbon market will become a compliance market and how will that change affect the environment?

Eight leading carbon reduction and offset providers have joined hands to form the The International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), with the overall objective of strengthening, promoting and lending credibility to the burgeoning market for carbon offsets. The ICROA members have signed up to a new code of best practice towards the fulfillment of...

Looking for ways beyond changing lightbulbs and taking the train to help reduce your carbon footprint? Turns out we all could make a big difference in greenhouse gas emissions by not throwing out so much trash and composting our food waste.

As the need for climate change solutions continues to grow, so does the need for properly educated greenhouse gas management and measurement professionals. Universities and colleges are typically the first place one thinks of when they hear “advanced education”; unfortunately, these institutions alone do not currently provide education for the full spectrum of the climate change industry.

Thanks to Al Gore, we all know by now about the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting impact on global climate. Now, 2 researchers from UCSD have developed a prototype device that can capture energy from the sun, convert it to electrical energy and “split” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen.

Vermont author, scholar and activist Bill McKibben sees the climate change challenge like this: we have 18 months — just 18 months — to pound a single number into the world’s collective head.

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Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels now stand at 387 parts per million.

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Residents of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho are outpacing the national average decline in gas consumption, according to a new report by the Sightline Instutute.In the last 8 years, residents of these states have cut back by about a gallon per week, for a total gas consumption reduction of 11%. In the Pacific Northwest, gas usage has fallen to its lowest level since 1966, while CO2 emissions from gasoline have fallen by six-tenths of a ton per capita since 1999.

Algae has been making the news a lot lately, and is a fairly new topic in environmental circles.

Let's take a step back for a moment and talk about why algae is interesting and important.

This house is being built Michael Rea in affiliation with Duncan Price on Britain’s most northerly island of Unst, which will bring obvious benefits to the environment. The carbon neutral home lowers the carbon footprint by producing its own energy and storing it to heat the home.

A North American organization of energy experts issued a report that found that building more green buildings is the best way to cut carbon dioxide. In fact, green buildings could cut emissions more deeply, quickly and more cheaply than any other global warming mitigation effort.

The B.C. government introduced North America's first full-fledged carbon tax yesterday, an attempt to engineer a social movement aimed at getting British Columbians to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions.

According to the New York Times, sequestering C02 from coal may not be as easy as people hope. Burying just 10 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted over a year from coal-fire plants at current rates would require moving volumes of compressed carbon dioxide greater than the total annual flow of oil worldwide

Joking apart there is a strong environmental argument for cow genocide. Cows and other livestock are probably the most significant threat to our environment today.

 

We need to cut our dependence on cattle drastically if our civilization is to survive in any semblance of its present form.

“The final combination of paper choices recommended to the client represented a 10% cost savings, 13% fewer carbon dioxide emissions, and 35% fewer trees when compared to their previous product,” says Nancy E. Landrum of Sustainable Business Design.