Pulse Energy, the energy management software provider to the 2010 Olympic Games, released figures from the company’s Venue Energy Tracker today revealing a savings of 135,716 kilowatt hours of electricity (kWh) during the first week of competition, which is a 16 percent reduction compared to unmonitored consumption levels. That’s enough for Julia Murray, a Canadian [...]
Winter olympics reduces its energy usage
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: · electricity, Energy, olmpics, reduction, sustainable, vancuver, winter
Ambition of only 2 developed countries sufficient for Copenhagen accord meeting 2°C target
February 4th, 2010 · No Comments
Only 2 out of 10 developed countries’ reduction targets submitted to the Copenhagen Accord qualify as ‘sufficient’ to keep global temperature rise below 2°C, finds the update of the ’Climate Action Tracker´ (www.climateactiontracker.org). The reduction targets of all countries currently associated with the Accord lead to a striking inconsistency with the 2°C goal defined in [...]
Tags: · climate, Climate change, climate tracker, Copenhagen, global warming, reduction, temperatures
Grazinglands Reduce Greenhouse Gases
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments
Rangeland Ecology & Management—A green pasture with grazing animals offers an idyllic image of our natural environment. With much of the current focus on climate change, such a pasture has much more to offer than image. Through effective policy implementation, grazinglands can reduce greenhouse gases through carbon sequestration and emissions reductions offset credits.
Tags: · carbon, cattle, cows, emissions, grazing, greenhouse gases, land, reduction
Ways to a greener office
April 8th, 2008 · No Comments
The average working North American spends a quarter of their year in the office – 8 hours a day, five days a week. What better place to consider making green changes to help out the environment?
Here are 10 ways you can make your office more green, courtesy of Digiblog:
Paper – Find out where your paper [...]
Tags: · change, climate, Energy, green, office, reduction
Wisconsin power plant tests CO2 reduction technology
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
The U.S. has received its share of criticisms about the steps it’s taking to fight climate change. A plan has now been set to action in order to curb both the political slack and the dreaded weather phenomenon.A coal-fired power plant in Wisconsin is now the site for one of the most advanced climate change-fighting [...]
Tags: · climate, co2, eco, power, reduction
Investment fund giants demand 90% reduction in carbon emissions
February 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Some of the largest institutional investors in the world yesterday called on the US Congress to introduce a mandatory national policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90% below 1990 levels by 2050.
It is the latest move that underlines the way business leaders have dramatically seized the environmental agenda and are now pushing [...]
Tags: · carbon, change, climate, demand, emissions, fund, giants, global, inconvenient, investment, reduction, warming
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