Carbon Footprint

One Meat Lover's Low-Carbon Diet

audubonmagazine.org | Mike Tidwell | Posted 01.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Eating Matters, Climate Change, Food Politics, Vegetarianism, Meat, Low-Carbon Diet, Impact of Eating Meat, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Full disclosure: I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital of the Milky Way Galaxy. I worship slow-cooked, hickory-smoked pig me...

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Google Phone Green App Tackles Carbon Footprints

Green Inc. | Joe Hutsko | Posted 11.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Google Phone Carbon App, Google Phone, Carbon Emissions, Google Phone App, Pollution, Ecorio, Carbon Footprint, Google, Green News

While downloadable applications for the iPhone have enjoyed most of the spotlight since they began shipping, momentum is building for apps that run on...

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"HOLLYWOOD GOES GREEN" SUMMIT

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Stefanie Michaels, Hollywood Film Production Slows, Zahava Stroud, Green Initiatives, Hollywood Goes Green, Media, Green, Film, Tv, Los Angeles, Carbon Footprint, Entertainment Business, NBC Universal, Adventure Girl, Environment, Sustainable Solutions, Beth Colleton, Commercial Productions, Hollywood, Business News
Stefanie Michaels

The Hollywood Event to Focus Sustainable Innovation and Corporate Responsibility It seems like everyone is hopping on the "Go Green wagon" today, so ...

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Are There Just too Many People in the World?

Johann Hari | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Abortion, Women's Rights, Abortion Rights, Green Living, Feminism, Carbon Footprint, The Pill, Overpopulation, Famine, Mass Starvation, China, Global Warming, Politics News
Johann Hari

To achieve the green goal of dealing with overpopulation, it's necessary to mix some oestrogen into the environmentalist palette.

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President Obama's Climate Challenge

environment360 | Bill Mckibben | Posted 11.05.2008 | Green

Read More: James Hansen, Environmental Policy, President Obama, Global Warming, Climate Change, Carbon Footprint, President Elect Obama, Carbon, Cap and Trade, Green Energy, Nations Climate Change Conference, Green News

And so our eight-year interlude from reality draws to a close, and the job of cleaning up begins. The trouble is, we're not just cleaning up after a f...

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Long-Distance Relationships Are Bad For The Planet

Slate | Barron YoungSmith | Posted 10.24.2008 | Style

Read More: Air Travel, Locasexual, Long-Distance Relationships, Pollution, Love, Carbon Footprint, Your Energy Independence, Style News

You're sitting in the airport terminal, rolling your copy of the Economist into a sweaty tube and waiting to see a significant other who lives far awa...

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Want Greener Energy In Your Home? Try A Micropower Audit

Treehugger | Kimberley D. Mok | Posted 10.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Conserving Energy, Energy Use, Environment, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Green Living, Money Saving, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Interactive energy audit websites which allow you to reduce home energy costs (such as the free one offered by the U.S. Department) are now commonplac...

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Life Cycle: Green Wine

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Synthetic Cork, Biodynamic, Screw-Top, Yemm & Hart, Local, Forest Stewardship Council, Bottles, Most Wanted, Napa Valley, Emissions, Rainforest Alliance, Organic, Vodka, Bordeaux, Sustainable, Carbon Footprint, Green Living, Boxed Wine, Cardboard, Rhine Valley, Climate Change, Fetzer Vineyard, Food, Sarah Smarsh, Wine, Vineyards, Cork, Global Warming, Simran Sethi, Glass, Smartwood, Mediterranean, Green News
Simran Sethi

It's all about how far your wine has been shipped, and the materials used to package it. Aluminum screw-tops are more likely to be recycled than natural corks, and they prevent wines from going bad.

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Do "Quality" Carbon Offsets Exist?

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon Offsets, Carbon Footprint, Edf, Green News
Andrew Winston

Ideally, you want something that is measurable and legitimately reduces the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere (why spend money on something that may not accomplish what you hoped?).

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Emissions "Must be cut" by 80% by 2050 says British Climate Change Committee VIDEO>>

George Spyros | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Britain, Carbon Emissions, Great Britain, British Committee on Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Committee on Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News
George Spyros

With dramatic video of melting arctic ice crashing into the ocean, including *insert metaphor* the fjord in Greenland that is believed to have produ...

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Pet Peeve Week

Michael DeJong | Posted 10.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Gas Prices, Al Qaeda, Alternative Energy, Lobbyists, Washington, Veep, Spandex, Pet Peeves, Iraq, Mccain, Obama, Rant, Global Warming, Dc, Carbon Footprint, Julie Andrews, Environment, Trash, Climate Change, Solar Power, Torture, Git-Mo, Crackberries, Green News
Michael DeJong

I know that everyone reading this has a laundry list of things that leave them twisted and bitter just like me -- and this is your week to let it all out -- it's National Pet Peeve Week.

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Americans' Small Changes Mean More For The Climate

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 10.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Environment, Small Steps, Pollution, Money Saving, Carbon Footprint, Green News

The Daily Green reports that small changes by American consumers, such as using reusable shopping bags or even cutting out meat one day a week (or mor...

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Winterize Your House to Save Energy

Johanna Smith | Posted 10.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Energy Efficiency, Winterize, Environment, Energy Conservation, Winter, Green Living, Home, Carbon Footprint, Green News

The simplest alternative energy source to tap in your home is energy saved. By taking a few steps towards increasing your energy efficiency, you can s...

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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI): A Step in the Right Direction

Good | Ben Jervey | Posted 10.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Carbon Emissions, The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Environment, Western Climate Initiative, RGGI, Carbon Footprint, Green News

America's first formal crack at regulating industrial greenhouse gas emissions kicked off last week with a much-ballyhooed carbon auction that should ...

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Starbucks Stores Distribute "CO2 World" GOOD Sheet, but is it Good Enough?

George Spyros | Posted 09.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Starbucks, Carbon Dioxide, Reducing Carbon Emissions, GOOD Magazine, Carbon Footprint, Green News
George Spyros

If you're at the local Starbucks and find some knowledge dropped on you about atmospheric CO2, look no further than the good folks at the GOOD integ...

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Need Small Steps To Reduce Your Footprint?

Grist | Umbra Fisk | Posted 09.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Politics of Food, Reducing Emissions, Impact of Eating Meat, Carbon Footprint, Green News

Dear Umbra, This year my family is not in the position to make any major CO2-reducing changes. We will not be purchasing a new car, a smaller house, ...

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The Twilight of the Utility Bill?

Carl Pope | Posted 09.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Building, Renewable Energy, Energy, Green Buildings, Carbon Footprint, Jerry Brown, Green News
Carl Pope

The 2030 dream of buildings that are energy self-sufficient and emit zero carbon came a big step closer in the past few weeks.

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The Eco-Sins (and Virtues) of Sarah Palin

Jeanie Pyun | Posted 09.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Oil Drilling, Grizzly Bear, Sarah Palin, Environment, Polar Bears, Green Living, Meat, Caribou; Salmon; Toxic; Mining; Wolves; Aerial Hunting; Vegetarian; Tanning Bed; Snowmobile, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Jeanie Pyun

We thought we'd see what eco-sins the saintly hockey-mom conservative might, however guilelessly, harbor.

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Walk To The Pub: New Green Beer Campaign

Treehugger | Warren McLaren | Posted 09.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Australia, Walking, Carbon Emissions, Beer, Coopers Brewery, Green Living, Green Beer, Carbon Footprint, Green News

What better way to reach Aussies with a message about climate change than through one of their favourite things:- Beer? Coopers Brewery have been runn...

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Public Transit Use Surges 5.2 Percent In US

AP | SARAH KARUSH | Posted 09.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Mass Transit, Public Transit, Public Transit Use, Gas Prices, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Green News

WASHINGTON — The nation's public transportation systems logged a 5.2 percent jump in ridership in the second quarter, according to industry figu...

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Greening 150,000 Roadies, is it possible?: Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco

Patrick Pfeiffer | Posted 08.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Democratic National Convention, Compost, Ben Harper, Wind Energy, Green Energy, Carbon Offsets, Radiohead, Tom Petty, Widespread Panic, Carbon Footprint, Environment, John Bell, Eco Living, Organic Food, Jack Johnson, Green News, Another Planet Entertainment, Bio Plastic Products, Solar Power, Outside Lands, Green Living, Green News
Patrick Pfeiffer

This year's Democratic National Convention is following suit: organic food, alternative energy transportation, and carbon offsetting are mitigating the masses.

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Trade Fossil Fuel for Human Fuel

Mark Strausman | Posted 08.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil Prices, Food, Food Prices, Oil, Local Food, Local Farmers, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Mark Strausman

Gas prices are giving us a second chance to evaluate our economy, our values, the very way we live. I say one solution is to grow our own crops, locally.

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What is the Carbon Footprint of McCain's Countless Homes?

Joseph Romm | Posted 08.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Housing Crisis, Carbon Footprint, Mccain Housing Gaffe, Mccain House, Mccain Carbon Footprint, Politics News
Joseph Romm

Given a total estimated value of McCain's homes of $14 million, one can make a very rough estimate that McCain has 10 times the carbon footprint of the average American home.

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Beijing To London: Passing A Dubious Green Torch

Graham Hill | Posted 08.21.2008 | Green

Read More: London, Carbon Emissions, Beijing Olympics, Carbon Footprint, Green News
Graham Hill

Beijing has been proud of its 'green' Olympics. One stat gives pause, however. The Olympic Torch Relay (the torch flew in a private jet when not actua...

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Japan To Label Goods With Carbon Footprint Information

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 08.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Japan Carbon Labels, Tesco Carbon Footprint, Sapporo, Carbon Footprint Labels, Japan, Carbon Footprint, Food Politics, Politics of Food, Green News

As previously mentioned here at Huffington Post Green, the Japanese are ahead of the game when it comes to carbon footprint awareness. A little while...

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