It's unlikely that the printed word is going anywhere--even with the rise of Kindle-like devices, there's still nothing like reading an actual book made with (gasp) tree-killing paper. So it's still important for the publishing ...READ»
Can a major multinational brand halve its carbon emissions in only four years? We'll find out next year if Timberland manages to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half based on a 2006 baseline. The footwear company, which ...READ»
Biofuel-powered airplane flights have been getting lots of press recently, but powering planes with algae, jatropha, and camelina isn't the only way to save on traditional jet fuel. Air India, the country's national airline, has ...READ»
The carbon footprint of a single email is negligible, but new research from ICF International and McAfee shows that the 62 trillion spam emails sent each year waste 33 billion kilowatt hours of power, or enough to power 2.4 million ...READ»
Carbon credits (permits that allows the holder to emit one ton of CO2) are often maligned because it's impossible to know how much carbon is actually reduced from their purchase. In many carbon markets, buyers are only able to ...READ»
The familiar sight of newspapers scattered on the floor outside hotel rooms might soon be a thing of the past.
In what is being billed as an environmentally-conscious move, Marriott International Inc. announced today that ...READ»
John Bohmer's Kyoto Box won the $75,000 Financial Times and HP Climate Change Challenge today thanks to an ultra-cheap and simple design with the potential to provide cooked food and clean water to billions. The $5 solar-powered ...READ»
Vending machine purchases often elicit feelings of guilt about the sugar and fat contents of soda and candy, but rarely about the greenhouse gas emissions of the machine itself. Soda vendors know, though, that their machines use ...READ»
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»
A research project is underway in Illinois to perform a large-scale test on a solution to carbon dioxide pollution: The gas is being pumped underground instead of being released into the atmosphere. Sounds crazy, or irresponsible? Not ...READ»
Clean coal must be the only way forward in the near term, but there is no clear plan. There is a lot of vehemence about renewables replacing coal, so first we need to do a reality check.
We can't do without coal for electricity, ...READ»
On Sunday, the UK's Times reported that performing two Google [GOOG] searches uses about as much energy as a kettle takes to boil. But Google says that estimate is inflated. Alex Wissner-Gross, the Harvard scientist quoted in the ...READ»
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