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Posts Tagged ‘carbon footprint’
Green living, Apr 6th, 2012,
Pets provide so much in our daily lives, from companionship and unconditional love, to entertainment while you’re playing with them and their favourite toys. However cats and dogs can carry a pretty large carbon footprint, comparable to owning an SUV (for dogs) or a small town car (for cats). The toys you buy for your pets can add to that carbon footprint as a lot of these playthings are mass produced and aren’t bio-degradable. For sensitive pets these toys can also be the cause of many of the symptoms your pet suffers from. Pet owners are rapidly switching from mass-produced…
Tags: carbon footprint, eco-friendly pets, ethicalcommunity, Green living
Green living, Health, Nature, Pollution, Nov 12th, 2010,
As soon as the first autumn leaves start falling down my family can’t stop thinking about winter getaways. My husband will look on the Internet for the first signs of snow in September to be sure we’re climbing mountaintops by January. For the sake of being complete, I feel compelled to add that I don’t like winter sports. No really, I see absolutely no point to it and it stresses me out in a way you cannot imagine. The fact that winter getaways have a quiet heavy carbon footprint only makes things worse. But anyway, stressed out or not, I…
Tags: carbon footprint, eco-friendly skiing, eco-friendly winter getaway, green your winter getaway, mountain ski, ski, skiing resort, snow
Green living, Health, Politics, Nov 4th, 2010,
I’ve wanted to campaign for this for a long time. Restaurant or kids’ meal toys have always bugged me. For, as good as the marketing idea behind them might be, it only makes their existence and popularity all the more absurd. Toys in kids’ meals are a selling trick, and simply nothing more. Restaurant toys are not REAL toys. They are Asian manufactured gadgets of average to low quality, often unfit for toddlers, but equally unfit for any other child, as they are unable to entertain children longer than it takes them to stuff a burger and some fries down…
Tags: carbon footprint, happy meal, happy meal toys, kids' meal toys, mcdonalds, Pollution, Recycling, toys, waste
Green living, Weird Stuff, Apr 19th, 2010,
Keeping with Denmark’s progressively green lifestyle, one hotel is offering a rather unique deal to its guests. Located 15 minutes from the center of Copenhagen, the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers hotel is offering a free meal in exchange for electricity. How will this be done? Well, there will be two exercise bicycles installed at the hotel. These bikes will be connected to generators. Any guest is welcome to use these bikes; however, their use comes with a challenge. According to a statement from the hotel: “Anyone producing 10 watt hours of electricity or more for the hotel will be given…
Tags: 10 watt hours, bicycle, carbon footprint, challenge, copenhagen, Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers, denmark, electricity, energy, exercise, free meal, generators, hotel guests
Green living, Jan 15th, 2010,
Across the internet, you’ll find a world of information on environmental news, how to live green, how to calculate your carbon footprint, tips on saving energy, and so forth. More sites, programs, widgets and applications come out every single day. Obviously, you can’t keep track of them all. How do you decide which ones are worth checking out? Are they legitimate programs or just another form of greenwashing? Well, I’ve tried to save you some of the guesswork by creating this list. Here, you will find some green widgets or eco-friendly sites that are definitely worth checking out. 10. Trip…
Tags: applets, applications, apps, building, Business, calculators, carbon footprint, ECO, eco-friendly, environment, environmental, Green, home, Kids, organic, programs, Recycling, tips, travel, websites, widgets
Climate Change, Green living, Nature, Uncategorized, Jan 5th, 2010,
You may be a person who lives the green lifestyle. You may recycle, buy organic and locally, and use a form of renewable energy source. You’ll only buy products that are natural and not tested on animals and you only use a car or public transportation if you absolutely have to—any other time you’ll walk or bike. The thing is, how do you convince others to do the same? Well, if people need an incentive to start making the switch to a greener lifestyle, you can send them straight over to EarthAid.net. This website has set up what may be…
Tags: carbon footprint, earn rewards, earn rewards while saving energy, EarthAid, energy monitoring website, energy saving incentives, reduce emissions, save energy, voluntary carbon market
Green living, Dec 13th, 2009,
How many of you enjoy walking? Maybe you do it for the exercise or maybe you like to walk so you can reduce your carbon footprint. Whatever the reason, if you live in the U.K., you might be interested in the website WalkIt.com. The people of walkit.com have created an urban walking route planner. Yeah, you’ve heard that before, but this one incorporates green information as well as health information. All you have to do is select your city and then enter a starting point and ending point. You can also select which type of route you want: a direct…
Tags: carbon footprint, eco-friendly practices, Health, walking, WalkIt.com
Climate Change, Green living, Dec 9th, 2009,
![]( "<!--:en-->Carbon confusion: What")
' src='http://gf3.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/2411.jpg' alt='carbon-confusion-whats-the-best-way-to-help-the-environment' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> A recent piece in the London Times entitled ‘After lunch we’ll save the planet’ documents a project that set out to calculate the carbon footprints of four families living in the U.K. It came up with some interesting results. The families consider themselves to be living generally Green lifestyles and are conspicuously upper middle class. How they go about being ‘eco-friendly’ differs, but the overall picture is a curious mix of luxury, admirable effort, frustration and sacrifice. They really want to be Green and exemplary, but they also have a lot of money and like the rest of us, are…
Tags: BBC, carbon, carbon footprint, environment, flying, Green, Martin Wright, rainforest
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 6th, 2009,
![]( "<!--:en-->More environmental TV ads from Defra")
' src='http://gf3.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/2363.jpg' alt='more-environmental-tv-ads-from-defras-act-on-co2-campaign-drive-less-and-save-water' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> The U.K.’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, or Defra for short, has a number of campaigns and programs focusing on environmental issues such as driving less, energy efficiency, saving water, recycling and climate change. Defra’s ACT ON CO2 project is one such campaign. Below are two current TV ads and links to their respective websites, which contain helpful information about driving less and saving water – two effective ways to reduce your individual and household carbon footprints. Also included is a previous ad from an earlier version of the ACT ON CO2 campaign. ACT ON CO2 – Could…
Tags: ACT ON CO2, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, Climate change, Defra, save water
Climate Change, Nov 28th, 2009,
Humans are more wasteful than originally thought. The Global Footprint Network recently put out a report stating that humans use resources equivalent to 1 ½ Earths to meet their needs, and Americans are the worst of all. If the entire world lived as recklessly as those in the US, humans would require 5 Earths to produce the resources everyone needs. “We are demanding nature’s services—using resources and creating CO2 emissions—at a rate 44% faster than what nature can regenerate and reabsorb. That means it takes the Earth just under 18 months to produce the ecological services humanity needs in one…
Tags: carbon footprint, ecological footprint, Global Footprint Network, human wastefulness, natural resources, reckless human habits
Climate Change, Oct 27th, 2009,
When it comes to your carbon footprint, there are many things people say you should do in order to lower it. Don’t drive or use a vehicle if you don’t have to. Don’t waste electricity or energy. Travel by air less. Stop deforestation. Apparently “conserve your water” should also be added to this list. It may surprise you, but 25% of US electricity consumption comes from moving and treating water. Think about it: water has to come from somewhere, whether a well or spring or numerous connected pipes; it doesn’t simply magically appear from nothing. If you live in a…
Tags: carbon emissions, carbon footprint, water conservation, water saving tips
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Oct 13th, 2009,
Transportation is constantly changing. New or improved versions of cars, trucks, vans and SUVs are constantly being manufactured. People carpool together or take the bus to save money; and possibly to also reduce their carbon footprint. For those that are more eco-minded, they walk or ride a bike wherever they need to go. Some people may have a bike, but they don’t use it often enough. They say they don’t have the time, or a means to transport them properly. Strapping them to a car or finding the right kind of bike rack to use can be very tedious and…
Tags: carbon footprint, foldable bikes, green transportation
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Oct 12th, 2009,
Nanotechnology has already sparked worries concerning its possible toxicity and unknown environmental impacts. Another recent concern about nanotech is that it may use far more energy than its tiny scale suggests. Nanotech is, in essence, technology that operates on the atomic or molecular level, or that which can be measured between one and 100 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in size. It might be logical to assume that operating at such a microscopic level would mean using fewer materials, producing less waste and therefore a having a smaller carbon footprint than conventional manufacturing. This is not necessarily so. Nanotech is…
Tags: carbon footprint, co2, environmental impact, nanotech, nanotechnology
Climate Change, Nature, Oct 10th, 2009,
These days, everything you do has to be eco-friendly – flying eco-friendly; eating eco-friendly; dressing eco-friendly etc. Before you know it, there will be eco-friendly marriages and births (assuming no one has thought of it yet.) So why leave out vacations from that list? So, how do you go from point A to point B without burning gazillions of fuel and being absolutely eco-friendly? Well charity and being eco-friendly both begin at home. Our lonely homes, left locked up with their air conditioners and heaters, spew enough CO2. So, it’s always better to turn off all air conditioning and heating….
Tags: carbon footprint, eco travel, eco-friendly vacation, environmentally friendly travel
Climate Change, Oct 7th, 2009,
In the new environmental documentary “No Impact Man”, Colin Beavan tries to live his life as the title says – making absolutely no impact on the earth. The movie, though playing only in New York and Los Angeles, is one of the most awaited films of the year. The film documents the life of Beavan, a former high-living Manhattanite who decided that for one year, he would live his life with a reduced carbon footprint – that meant eating as locally and in-season as possible, doing without motorized transportation and even elevators. The film is based on his book that…
Tags: carbon footprint, Colin Beavan, No Impact Man
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Sep 25th, 2009,
We already know that airplanes emit a lot of CO2. But how much of an environmental impact does flying have when compared to other modes of transport? What about offsetting the carbon footprint of flying by participating in ecotourism or running planes on biodiesel? Besides CO2, airplanes emit water vapor, nitrous oxides, sulfate, and soot. Since this takes place much higher in the atmosphere than emissions that come from other sources, their effects are more harmful. Additionally, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that the climate impact of aircraft is between two and four times higher than just…
Tags: aviation, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, Climate change, co2, ecotourism, emissions, flying, Green
Climate Change, Science & Technology, Sep 22nd, 2009,
Many know of and love the program that is Google Earth: a virtual globe, map and geographic information center that allows people to view the world in 3D, live video footage, reviews and ratings on lodgings, restaurants and transportation, and even celestial bodies of the night sky. It also shows a collection of organizations spreading global awareness, including Greenpeace, WWF, and Jane Goodall’s Gombe Chimpanzee Blog. Recently, they have taken their program to a whole new level. Available through the BeGreen website, you can now use the Carbon Impact Explorer application, which allows you to visually track the projects you…
Tags: Carbon Cycle Maps, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, Google Earth
Climate Change, Sep 5th, 2009,
There are many carbon footprint calculators out there nowadays. I have tried a number of them but today I stumbled upon one that is a WWF produce in association with The Independent. And I have to say it’s easy, fast and really eye-opening. As it states on the website if you are “worried about your impact on the environment” this tool is a must try. As advertised it really takes less than 5 minutes to complete. Calculate your carbon footprint here
Tags: calculator, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, global warming, WWF
Climate Change, Green living, Aug 19th, 2009,
Have you ever wondered how we survived before super-markets came to be? And how did our parents go through life not knowing the joy of recycling tons of food packaging in color coded recycle bins? It must have been such a boring life for those who had their own kitchen garden and had to cook only what grew in the local fields and caught their own fishes and never knew of global warming and climate change? The older generation surely missed out on all the excitement. Gone are the days when the cabbage came with the nice local caterpillar and…
Tags: carbon footprint, eat local, ecology, food, greenhouse gas, Health, Sustainable eating
Green living, Aug 14th, 2009,
It is a common misconception that in order to help save the environment, you have to radically alter your current way of life so that it conforms to the new ethical standards of environmentalism. While it is true that driving cars and flying around in airplanes pollute the Earth and contribute to global warming, there are many ways we can offset the damage we do in our decadent gas-guzzling, jet set lifestyles, that can reduce our oversized carbon footprints. And they are surprisingly simple. Conserve water Take shorter showers and don’t leave the faucet running while washing dishes and brushing…
Tags: bottled water, buy local, carbon footprint, conserve water, environment, green transport, reuse, vegetarian
