News tagged with carbon footprint
Related topics: climate change , energy consumption , carbon emissions , energy , fossil fuels
Does carbon labelling give developing countries a bad deal?
Carbon labelling could unfairly disadvantage economies in the developing world, and mislead consumers, according to an interdisciplinary project carried out by the UK Research Councils' Rural Economy and Land Use Programme. ...
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Mankind using Earth's resources at alarming rate
Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday.
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Emulating Western lifestyles: Consumption and carbon footprints in less industrialized countries
In recent decades, a new global middle class has exploded, with a total population exceeding one billion people. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research explores the consumption attitudes of some of these members of the ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Biofuel for commercial flights by 2010: IATA
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce the industry's carbon footprint.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 23, 2009 |
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US army to be powered by waste
(PhysOrg.com) -- Defense company Qinetiq has been awarded a contract to supply the US army with a system that generates electricity from garbage.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Got gas? Study to determine cows' greenhouse gas emissions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Any calculation of the carbon footprint of a gallon of milk needs to include fuel used by tractors and trucks, as well as electricity consumed by milking machines and refrigerators. But how much gas is coming ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Free PC widgets save energy
I shaved 0.86 pounds of emissions from my carbon footprint and saved 0.646 kilowatt hours yesterday, and if the little widget on my PC can be believed, more than 22,000 people in 128 countries did roughly the same.
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Researchers develop initial step toward carbon sequestration
MIT researchers have developed designs for a new kind of coal-burning power plant, called a pressurized oxy-fuel combustion system, whose carbon-dioxide emissions are concentrated and pressurized so that they ...
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Technology strikes a chord with algal biofuels
An award-winning Los Alamos National Laboratory sound-wave technology is helping Solix Biofuels, Inc. optimize production of algae-based fuel in a cost-effective, scalable, and environmentally benign fashion—paving the way ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Family planning a major environmental impact
Some people who are serious about wanting to reduce their "carbon footprint" on the Earth have one choice available to them that may yield a large long-term benefit - have one less child.
Jul 31, 2009 |
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IBM and ETH Zurich unveil plan to build new kind of water-cooled supercomputer
In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer that will directly ...
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Going, going green
Steve and Beth Griffith and their family thought they were well on their way to living an energy-saving green lifestyle.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Vt. farmers cut cows' emissions by altering diets
(AP) -- Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp - dairy cows' contribution ...
Jun 21, 2009 |
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Scientists should look at their own carbon footprint
Scientists studying the impact of climate change on the Arctic need to consider ways to reduce their own carbon footprints, says a researcher who regularly flies north to study the health of caribou.
Jun 08, 2009 |
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How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide (CO2) byproduct from the produc ...
May 18, 2009 |
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