Becoming Carbon Neutral is about reducing and offsetting the value of your personal carbon emissions and therefore minimise the size of your carbon footprint (the level of carbon pollution your lifestyle produces) in order to fight...
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Becoming Carbon Neutral is about reducing and offsetting the value of your personal carbon emissions and therefore minimise the size of your carbon footprint (the level of carbon pollution your lifestyle produces) in order to fight climate change.
Reducing means you seek to shrink your personal carbon emissions through a mix of avoidance and energy efficiency. Offsetting means you pay companies to maintain carbon reduction projects worldwide and/or tree-planting programme, which will nullify your carbon emissions.
There are many ways you can reduce or offset your footprint. We are constantly producing new and regularly updating our facts pages with information on how you can achieve this.
Don't forget by joining our Community it means that we will be able to regularly update you when changes such as this happen.
With more than 110 million active users Facebook is now the 4th most trafficked website in the world.As part of our mission to 'spread the word' and make Click4Carbon your portal to the internet we have created the following:The Click4Carbon Facebook GroupThe Click4Carbon Facebook Application - which allows you to display and compare your Carbon Footprint value with your Facebook friendsSo please join today, take part and help us by forwarding to all of your Facebook friends.And, don't forget... Read Full Story
Click4Carbon sets you a challenge to see how long you can survive without using anything plastic. By this we mean not buying or accepting anything which contains plastic or is packaged in plastic. So, no take-away coffees, bottles of water or pre-packed sandwiches. Can you forsake punnets of strawberries and packs of chicken, supermarket milk and bottled cleaning products, and switching to reusable nappies for my toddler. Are you able to not slump in front of the telly of an evening with the... Read Full Story
Africa has a "golden opportunity" in U.N. climate talks to ensure that the world's poorest continent gets help to cope with global warming, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Tuesday. Yvo de Boer said Africa was still lagging in attracting investments in green technology to help slow rising greenhouse gases and in getting help to adapt to the effects of droughts, floods, rising seas and less predictable rains. Speaking during 160-nation Aug. 21-27 climate talks in Accra... Read Full Story
Mobile phones, Wi-Fi systems, electric power lines and similar sources of "electrosmog" are disrupting nature on a massive scale, causing birds and bees to lose their bearings, fail to reproduce and die, a conference will be told this week. Dr Ulrich Warnke who has been researching the effects of man-made electrical fields on wildlife for more than 30 years will tell the conference, organised by the Radiation Research Trust at the Royal Society in London, that "an unprecedented dense mesh of... Read Full Story
The Guardian newspaper (UK) today reported: From a distance the bizarre structures sprouting from the high Alentejo plain in eastern Portugal resemble a field of mechanical sunflowers. Each of the 2,520 giant solar panels is the size of a house and they are as technically sophisticated as a car. Their reflective heads tilt to the sky at a permanent 45 degrees as they track the sun through 240 degrees every day. The world's largest solar photovoltaic farm, generating electricity straight from... Read Full Story
Couldn't resist this one. The Post Office has another official web site http://www.usps.com/green/ Seems like an oxymoron to have a 'green' website for a business that deals in delivering paper. Here is a clip from the site -
"did you know…We're building new postal facilities with the environment in mind. We use recycled fiberglass, natural lighting, thermal windows and solar electric and thermal systems. And water tanks to harvest rainwater."
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Don't forget that June 9th is National Liftshare Day so make sure that one day next week during one of the regular journeys that you make that you share the journey with someone else. It needs though to be a journey that you make frequently! Liftsharing is, quite simply, offering a lift to or accepting a lift from, someone making the same journey as you. There are now 33m vehicles on Britain's roads, the bulk of which are cars. The average UK motorist drives 8,700 miles each year, emitting 3... Read Full Story
Half a million jobs and 500 years of tradition are to be phased out in Brazil's booming sugar cane industry to satisfy western demands for more socially acceptable work practices in the biofuel sector. Sugar cane cutters who have been working Brazil's land since 1525, when Portuguese colonialists first experimented with growing the crop, are to make way for mechanisation. The Brazilian Sugar Cane Industry Association (UNICA) said 80% of the 500,000 jobs would be gone within three years and... Read Full Story
Nearly three in four drivers do not know how much carbon dioxide their car emits, it was revealed today. Yet when buying a new vehicle, 89% of consumers want environmental features brought to their attention, a survey by the Energy Saving Trust (EST) found. Nearly half (48%) are considering replacing their car in the next year, the poll of 1,511 UK drivers showed. Half said they would drive more efficiently if they had more "green" information, while 51% of those shows a list of popular cars... Read Full Story
It has long been the holy grail for those who believe that technology can save us from catastrophic climate change: a device that can "suck" carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, reducing the warming effect of the billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas produced each year. Now a group of US scientists say they have made a breakthrough towards creating such a machine. Led by Klaus Lackner, a physicist at Columbia University in New York, they plan to build and demonstrate a prototype within two... Read Full Story
