From the 8 billion pounds of kitty litter heading to landfills each year to the effects of a pet’s carnivorous diet, pet parents should be aware of the substantial carbon footprint left by pets. To address this important matter, PETCO has developed an exclusive partnership with Greenwala.com, the leading online resource empowering people to [...]

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If current population and consumption trends continue, Africa’s Ecological Footprint (a measure of its demand on nature) will exceed its biocapacity within the next twenty years, according to a publication to be released by Global Footprint Network on Tuesday, October 20. A number of countries, including Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania, are set to reach that [...]

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This short animation explains how Carbon Retirement works. It’s an alternative way to offset your carbon footprint. It removes carbon allowances from the EU Emission Trading Scheme, and lets you directly influence the level of carbon emissions in Europe.
learn more at www.carbonretirement.com.

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BT launched an online tool last week to help small and medium-sized businesses measure and evaluate their energy consumption.
The BT Business Environmental Self-Assessment Tool (BT BEST) allows users to see how changes to travel, IT use, business operations and corporate policies can shrink or fatten a company’s carbon footprint. The tool is geared toward companies [...]

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Some people use “global warming” and “climate change” interchangeably, while others insist on saying it one way or the other. Both terms are usually meant to describe the increasingly negative impact human activity has on our planet’s atmosphere and environment.
So which one is right? Does it matter?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s website has a potentially [...]

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Beer on tap in Japan … Sapporo, a brewer, has said it will label cans of beer with an individual carbon footprint. Photograph: Jonathan Watts

Japan is to carry carbon footprint labels on food packaging and other products in an ambitious scheme to persuade companies and consumers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
The labels, to appear [...]

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All seven feet and one inch of Shaquille O’Neal was photographed recently in a Mercedes Smart Car (yes, he fit – they’re reportedly quite roomy!), and though it’s not apparent if he bought it or used it for a fun photo-op it certainly wouldn’t hurt for him to add it to his line up of gas guzzling [...]

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A new advertising campaign has got American progressives spluttering into their soy lattes. Plastered across the pages of the liberal American canon – newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, the New Republic, the American Prospect, the Nation and Harper’s – are a series of full-page ads calling for progressives to join forces with [...]

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We’re growing accustomed to thinking about the greenhouse gas impact of transportation and energy production, but nearly everything we do leaves a carbon footprint. If it requires energy to make or do, chances are, some carbon was emitted along the way. But these are the early days of the climate awareness era, and it’s not [...]

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A greener, less expensive method to produce hydrogen for fuel may eventually be possible with the help of water, solar energy and nanotube diodes that use the entire spectrum of the sun’s energy, according to Penn State researchers.

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