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Airplanes have passenger-mile efficiencies in the same range as cars—it's the long travel distances that rack up the GHG emissions. Barring an unexpected breakthrough, it is unlikely that airplanes will ever become significantly more ...  

SRINAGAR, INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR -- During every wedding season in the Kashmir Valley, love is in the air -- along with a thick cloud of grey smoke from thousands of cooking fires as platoons of wedding chefs, or wazas, slow-cook lamb and ...  

Pending regulations in Europe for a carbon footprint label on every product means that it's not enough to inform consumers your electronics product's power consumption level. You need to tell them the quantity (in grams) of carbon-dioxide emissions associated with manufacturing, transporting and recycling of your product. Carbon footprint - Carbon dioxide - Environment - Carbon Cycle - Carbon Management  

See if you can figure out the problem here with the newer LED stop lights: The beauty of the new LED lights is they emit basically no wasted energy.  The cool thing about that is that these bulbs... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]  

What do you put on the dinner table when your monarch is hosting the world's leaders for a summit on climate change?The answer: you make sure that meal is low carb... er, as in low-carbon.Key ingredients for a royal banquet hosted on Thursday by Queen Margrethe II placed the emphasis on locally-sourced products rather than exotic materials flown in from afar.The menu kicked off with pured scallops in green sauce, followed by turkey loaf with...  

There has been a lot of flack flying towards the 15,000 delegates who flew their private jets to the "Global Warming" conference in Copenhagen, but can you really blame them for wanting to take their own planes there?Contributor: David Van EdemaPublished: Dec 16, 2009  

Kia has announced that its new K7 sedan, which will be exported as the Cadenza, has received its carbon footprint certificate from the Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI). The all-new Cadenza. Click to enlarge. The Cadenza, which will...  

JohnsonDiversey Chairman S Curtis Johnson today announced a new commitment by the company to establish carbon foot printing of its global product portfolio The initiative will document the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its portfolio and establish targets for improvement.  

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...  

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...  

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...  

by SARAH NELSON, Contributing Writer Many people believe that it's the big factories and congested freeways that contribute the most to the current climate crisis. The truth is, everything we do leaves a permanent mark on the atmosphere - a footprint. And everyone has one. Making coffee, driving, buying food, flying, it all contributes to the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere and, by effect, creates the issues we face with...  

Chesterfield, UK Fo Following on from the success of the “Joining Technologies for FRP Composite Materials” workshop in November 2009, Net have teamed up with Ray Khan from Hambleside Danelaw - a self proclaimed “Corporate Eco Warrior” – for  

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  

Large dogs have about the same carbon footprint as SUVs, according to some recent studies. Pets, in general, are significant contributors to global warming. A new study reported in the New Scientist magazine and published in a book called "Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living," looks at the impact of everything from dogs and cats to hamsters and goldfish. I don't have a dog and wouldn't have eaten the one I did have, but...