Imagine if carbon wasn’t a formless gas, but rather a solid ball? We’d be forced to deal with our emissions problem much faster, because look at what would happen to New York as the carbon piled up.
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Hestia is a new project that lets you see the whole picture of emissions, from that SUV idling at a red light to the power plant down the block.
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Clean coal--long dismissed as an oxymoronic waste of time--may also be a perfect stopgap measure in a world where we need to stop burning fossil fuels but yet keep building coal power plants.
Those cat videos don’t come out of thin air. Each time you use the Internet, massive data servers need power, and power causes emissions. While tech companies are trying to be more efficient and use renewable energy, there is still a cost to every search.
A new visualization tool lets you see how the world's countries are progressing toward more healthy and equitable societies, and how much it's ruining the planet to get there.
Shipping operates out of the jurisdiction of any laws or regulations that cover emissions, but some companies are making attempts to reduce their footprint. One idea: good old-fashioned wind power.
Architecture 2030's plan is for all buildings to proudly announce how many emissions it required to build them, to operate them, and to eventually tear them down.
Like China has done in the past, the U.S is sacrificing public health for rapid economic development. But we should really be emulating the way China does things today.
