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EDINBURGH, Scotland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Edinburgh-based Menzies Distribution, which delivers 45 per cent of all newspapers and magazines sold by retailers in the UK, is on target to achieve a 30 per cent reduction in its carbon footprint. In recognition of the company’s year on year achievements to-date, it has become one of the first logistics businesses to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard. Arguably the most rigorous assessment of its type...  

Despite efforts by organizers to green the conference by relying on items like bicycles and tap water, the Danish government has estimated the conference will generate about 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.  

Delegates at this week’s UN Climate Change conference in Copenhagen should look closer at low-cost airlines when discussing the impact of flights on climate change. By choosing to take low cost budget flights, instead of business class on traditional airlines, they could be reducing their own flight carbon footprint by over 30%. Analysis from the travel search engine Liligo.co.uk ( www.liligo.co.uk : http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id...  

For the last ten years, Spain has said all the right things about controlling its carbon emissions in the face of the looming climate crisis. It has even taken concrete action: A new law demands every new house in Spain must have a solar water heater ...  

Graph from Power & Energy. OK, it's a lot of carbon. 41,000 tons of carbon equivalent is estimated to be Copenhagen's big footprint after the COP-15 two weeks of talks. See that small, insignificant seeming white dot carved into the big black moon? That's what it would be if we all weren't in Copenhagen. Yet while 41,000 tons sounds ginormous, and it is, the Danes had long planned to offset an eventual 100,000 tons of carbon, setting aside...  

At lpw2009 miyagawa gave a(n award winning) talk about Plack.During it, he commented "while I was on the plane from San Francisco to Japan I hacked on ...", and then "while I was on the plane here I hacked on ...", and I wondered what is the carbon footprint of miyagawa's modules? This seemed rather an unfair question to ask in public, but when I told it to him later in the pub* he laughed. However the full question is slightly longer:What is...  

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...read more  

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.  

by SARAH NELSON, Contributing Writer With the Climate Conference in Copenhagen kicking off today, the world is abuzz with hope and skepticism of what the outcome of the summit might hold. A big question surfacing is the amount of carbon waste that could potentially be generated by the 12 day conference, which is being held to find a solution to the global climate crisis. Oh, the irony. The U.N. estimates that the event will generate just...  

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...  

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, andMasdar 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  

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 [...]  

(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...  

“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. ...