Ebillplace.com released a video recently discussing some of the environmental impact of replacing your paper bills with electronic bills. I was surprised by the impact and just had to share.
Eliminating the mail Americans receive in one day could produce enough energy to heat 250,000 homes.
Every year, producing and transporting paper checks has the same [...]

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Bill Gates’ investment firm is funding Sapphire Energy, a company that intends to make auto fuel from algae.
Sapphire Energy said Wednesday that a series B round will bring the total amount it has raised to more than $100 million. Investors include Gates’ investment firm Cascade Investment, as well as Arch Venture Partners, Wellcome Trust, and [...]

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The credibility of the nuclear industry was shaken last night after the estimated cost of cleaning up Britain’s atomic waste was raised by a further £10bn.
The latest clean-up estimate from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) suggests the commonly accepted figure of £73bn should rise to £83bn. But the agency insisted that £10bn of income from [...]

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Americans already have large carbon footprints: where the world average is 4 tons, the American average is 20. A study at MIT found that no matter what you do, if you live in America, you’re automatically going to have a large footprint – whether you’re homeless, a child or a Buddhist monk – because our [...]

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The UK government’s groundbreaking bill to combat climate change cleared its first hurdle in the House of Commons last night.
But ministers are set to come under increasing pressure to impose even tougher limits on carbon dioxide emissions.
The climate change bill, which was granted a second reading by 344 votes to three, will set a legally [...]

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Even before debate began on Monday on the first comprehensive climate change bill to reach the Senate floor, the White House said President George W. Bush would veto it in its current form.

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72 per cent of people are not willing to pay more in green taxes like the congestion charge
More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new [...]

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