Discover the Size of Your Carbon Footprint

Paging the Goracle, paging the Goracle: Talk about your global warming . . . When an estimated 16,500 delegates, activists and reporters descend upon Copenhagen Monday for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, a lot of hot air will follow. The U.N. estimates the 12-day conference will create 40,584 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, roughly the same [...]  

When it comes to estimating their impact on the environment, most companies and organizations miss 80 percent of their carbon footprint, according to Climate Earth, a turnkey provider of enterprise carbon accounting solutions.?It?s more like a carbon toe print,? said Chris Erickson, Climate Earth founder and chief executive officer.  

Alcoa's Kawneer business has joined together with the Pew Center on Global Climate Change to launch "Make an Impact", an interactive environmental program designed to help individuals manage their carbon footprint and reduce energy costs...  

Despite some year-to-year wiggles, the Earth is getting warmer. All but the most die-hard climate-change skeptics will concede that point. What the argument often boils down to is whether the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, rising in parallel to the rise in temperatures, can be linked to that change.  

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, and Masdar PV GmbH, a manufacturer of large-scale, thin-film solar modules, have signed an agreement to qualify and adopt Linde’s on-site generated fluorine – a zero global warming solution for photovoltaic (PV) module process chamber cleaning. This extension of the collaboration between the two companies is a key element of Linde’s drive to help accelerate the PV industry from grid parity to green...  

“We make homemade stuffing – my mom is making Tofurky because I am a vegetarian and we just eat a lot!…I am trying to have a smaller carbon footprint.” - “Glee” star Jenna Ushkowitz discussing her Thanksgiving feast with JustJared.com. ...  

Jonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondent reports on the Guardian: The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month, the government said today, as it unveiled firm targets for curbing the world’s biggest carbon footprint for the first time. A day after the US president, Barack Obama, confirmed he would attend the early [...]  

The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country’s carbon-dioxide emissions, according to University of Chicago researchers. The research takes into account activities such as hospital care, scientific research and the production and distribution of pharmaceutical drugs. The study shows that the healthcare sector produces 8 percent of the country’s total carbon-dioxide [...]  

When the Met Office's latest £30m supercomputer was switched on in May it drew a fair amount of criticism, and a cloud of suspicion has hung over the organisation's Exeter-based headquarters ever since. Isn't it odd, critics asked, that an instrument for combating climate change has such a huge carbon footprint?  

C. F. Møller's vision for a housing complex that generates all the energy it needs. C.F. Møller Architects, a powerhouse Danish firm, has taken the grand-prize in a competition to design a totally zero-energy housing development for Denmark's Aalborg waterfront. Of the five groups that competed, C.F. Møller was one of only two that passed the stringent, zero-energy guidelines. The firm pulled that feat off by some clever design features that...  

(Alan Caruba) - I never cease to marvel at the environmental alarmists who create one "crisis" after another using wretchedly bad "science" to support their scams. On Tuesday, November 24, the Global Footprint Network is going to "release new data on the Ecological Footprint of 100 nations and humanity as a whole, and the current ledgers are sobering"...  

© L.Brumm Photography via Flickr Big news for Grand Canyon National Park. Officials are proposing to make the park one of at least 50 in the country that attempts to counter and respond to global climate change. The park is examining how to recycle more, use less energy and water, and cut its greenhouse gas emissions. Kathryn Parker, the climate change coordinator at the park, also said Grand Canyon hopes to become a hub for teaching the...  

Are dogs worse for the environment than SUVs? You'll find a number of sources trumpeting the widely publicized results concluding that yes, dogs are worse for the planet than SUVs. But don't kick out the hound quite yet and head for the Hummer dealership.  

By By MARK RAHNER -- Thanks for killing the planet, dog owners. Well, that's a rough paraphrase of a New Zealand study that claims a medium-size dog leaves a larger ecological footprint than an SUV.In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required to feed a dog - including the amount of land needed to feed the animals that go into its food - give it about twice the eco...  

tags: Earth Overshoot Day, environment, education [larger view] Today is Earth Overshoot Day. This is the day when humanity will have placed more demand on the planet's resources -- from filtering CO2 to producing food, fiber and timber -- than the planet can provide in this year. From this day forward until the end of the year, people will meet our demand for ecological services by depleting resource stocks and accumulating carbon...