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Carbon Trust Competition Aims to Cut Offshore Wind Energy Costs

At some point recently, a group of world leaders must have gotten together and decided that the best way to save our planet was through prizes. Hence we have the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, the Financial Times Climate Change ...READ»

Move Over, Carbon Footprint: The Water Footprint is Coming

Carbon footprints, defined by the U.K.'s Carbon Trust as "the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product," have recently become important to ...READ»

Continental Clothing Adds Carbon Footprint to Cleaning Label

The other day, I stumbled upon a label above a bathroom's paper towel dispenser detailing the "energy footprint"(total amount of energy involved in production) of a single towel. I had never seen anything like it before, ...READ»