Carbon Footprints

There’s a nice story in Toronto’s The Star, Using carbon credits to make a difference.
Cybele Young is taking global warming into her own hands.
She’s doing whatever she can to reduce her ecological footprint. She buys organic produce and locally raised meat. If she needs to travel somewhere out of bicycle range, she borrows her parents’ [...]

If you look down the very bottom of our site you’ll see a little . That image, when you click on it, opens a window that authenticates the code with the owner of code, and certifies that the emissions associated with running of the web-site have been properly offset. Carbon Planet was chosen by [...]

In the USA The National Wildlife Federation has just released a comprehensive Gardener’s Guide to Global Warming (40 pages, pdf). It includes an interactive map of the USA that shows whether or not the state flower or tree in any particular US state will be affected by global warming.
Also included is an interactive [...]

CBC News is reporting on complaints of alleged sauciness, saying Critics want Ontario to ‘Flick Off’ campaign.
Opposition parties are blasting the Ontario government for supporting a campaign aimed at getting young people to cut energy use and suggestively titled “Flick Off.”
Critics don’t like the campaign’s play on words. The campaign’s website uses such phrases as [...]

NineMSN is reporting Conserve your toilet paper: Sheryl Crow.
Sheryl Crow is suggesting a bottom-up solution to wipe away global warming: limit each trip to the bathroom to one piece of toilet paper, according to a statement on the rocker’s website.
Crow said she had spent most of an environmental tour of US college campuses thinking of [...]

Technology Review is reporting on a fantastic new gadget Making Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), recently demonstrated that light absorbed and converted into electricity by a silicon electrode can help drive a reaction that converts carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen. Carbon monoxide is a valuable commodity [...]

It’s official! Yahoo! News is reporting that Mock metal group Spinal Tap to reunite to raise awareness of climate change.
The mock heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, “This is Spinal Tap,” will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July [...]

Californian Governer, Arnold Schwarzenegger has delivered a terriffic speech at Georgetown University as part of the Georgetown University Environmental Conference.
I believe the environmental movement is in the midst of redefining itself as something more modern, more confident, and more positive. As governor, I talk to scientists in our universities, I talk to CEOs [...]

In the UK the big news is, as The Independent and many other papers are reporting, A Bill which makes reducing carbon emissions a legal duty.
Yesterday the Government unveiled the world’s first delivery system for the targets involved in radically cutting back the gases that are causing global warming. It is based on two simple [...]

There’s an article by Fred Pearce in this week’s dead-tree edition of New Scientist called Look, no carbon footprint! (subscription required) which raises many valid concerns about the whole carbon offset industry.
There are two kinds of offset. Official offsets - sanctioned under the Kyoto protocol - allow governments and companies to earn carbon credits that [...]