Carbon footprint

Usually, when people start talking about carbon footprints and the effect humans are having on the environment, there is a lot of shaking of heads in dismay and a lot of clucking of tongues. Ever since Al Gore's documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, carbon footprint has become a household phrase and a buzzword among politicians and lobbyists. It seems to be a concern that is at the forefront of most people's minds.

A carbon footprint is actually a subset of our overall ecological footprint. A carbon footprint has been described as the total set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event, or product. More specifically, it is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by an individual, organization, event, or production.

The main problem people run into when trying to reduce their carbon footprint is expense. Solar energy, wood pellets, and hybrid cars are not cheap. It has not been until just recently that people have been able to reduce their carbon footprint and still save some Presidential Flash Cards.

Bloggers speaking about the carbon footprint can be found at sites like mycarbonfootprint and ecovillagegreen.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Carbon footprint”

• Hara and Sustainable Silicon Valley Announce a New Partnership

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 668
  Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV), a cross-sector collaboration of more than 100 leading businesses, governmental agencies and NGOs working to improve Silicon Valley’s environmental quality, and Hara, the providers of a comprehensive carbon and water footprint tool (click here to read an earlier 3P post on Hara), ...
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• The Climate Summit Hypocrisy

  
  Big Dogs House — Authority: 495
  Copyright © 2009 Big Dog . Visit the original article at http://www.onebigdog.net/the-climate-summit-hypocrisy/ . They are gathering from around the world to discuss climate change and how the wealthier countries can be raped in order to provide money to countries that are poor. The leaders will gather and ...
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• Hisarna Technology Could Reduce CO2 Emissions from Blast Furnace Steelmaking by More than 50 Per Cent

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  Called “Hisarna”, the technology has the potential to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the blast furnace steelmaking route by more than 50%. The €20 million project is one of the initiatives that has sprung up under the auspices of ULCOS (Ultra-Low CO2 Steelmaking), a consortium of European steelmakers that ...
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• World’s Top Hypocrites Meet In Copenhagen

  
  Bob's Bites — Authority: 128
  The world’s most arrogant and hypocritical people will meet in Copenhagen tomorrow to tell more of their lies. How can we take these liars and crooks seriously when they don’t even take what they are preaching seriously?On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest ...
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• School students to grade MPs on climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) As the world focuses on the climate change summit in Copenhagen, a group of students here will go door-to-door to the houses of MPs, grading them on their knowledge and spreading awareness on reduction of carbon emissions.The two-day programme, which will begin Tuesday, will be flagged off from ...
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• ‘Business of carbon’ making things worse say Essex academics

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  Businesses and other organisations signing up to so-called ‘green’ initiatives may be doing more harm to the planet than good, warns a new book compiled by two academics from the University of Essex. Continue reading at Businessweekly.co.uk
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• Going Green = Going Hilarious

  
  Gunaxin — Authority: 670
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• Key dates in story of a warming planet, our Earth

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 128
  The issue of climate change has been around a lot longer than most people know. I’m one of them. I listened to a cassette tape of author/conservationist Dave Foreman reading from his book “Confessioins of an Eco-Warrior” a few weeks ago and he mentions the “greenhouse effect” in the opening essay. Here’s ...
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• That is just what Grinch’s do.

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  That is just what Grinch’s do. Carolyn Hileman It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you turn, it is colder outside, in some places it is snowing, there are decorations hung and the lights at night feel almost magical, it is Christmas, but there is a problem the Grinch has his own elves and they ...
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• The Hypocrisy Of the Copenhagen Fly-In

  
  Cutting Through The Fog — Authority: 132
  In just a few days, between 12 & 15 thousand attendees will descend on Copenhagen(Click to See Full Story: "Road to COP15 in Copenhagen") to participate in the 15th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference. Representatives from more than 180 countries will attend. These will include government heads of ...
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• Carbon Footprint: What Makes Europe Greener than the U.S.?

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 521
  The average American produces three times the amount of CO2 emissions as a person in France. A U.S. journalist now living in Europe explains how she learned to love her clothesline and sweating in summer. It was late and raining this summer when I approached the information desk at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport to ...
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• Voluntary CO2 offset buyers focus on exotic credits

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  LONDON (Reuters) – Buyers of offsets in the global voluntary carbon market are showing increased interest in so-called exotic and U.S. credits, market players said on Wednesday. Continue Reading on Reuters
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• What is Al Gore’s Carbon Footprint?

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By William H Watson If the Earth is our mother then Al Gore must be our daddy. He is the self-appointed prophet of climate doom. Since losing to George W Bush in 2000 he has been given wealth, power, and prestige like none before him. Hollywood gave him an Oscar, their highest award. The world bestowed upon him ...
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• Low Carbon Future

  
  Luigicappel's Weblog — Authority: 100
  I’ve just finished reading an excellent story by Chris Barton in the NZ Herald , which is a good primer for the Copenhagen conference that John Key is going to? The cricket on TV is on in the background and apparently Key is in Wellington watching New Zealand vs Pakistan, so he doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to ...
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• A warm welcome to our readers and their friends

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 489
  As venues you have previously frequented change in ways that no longer suit you or fade away entirely, consider Alexandria as a place to visit more often, if not ultimately come to inhabit. As our Guidelines for Authors and Guidelines for Commenters make clear, the paramount value in Alexandria is full ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• Climate science fracas

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 604
  Download audio file (1204097.mp3) Download MP3 The United Nations is conducting an investigation into claims that British scientists manipulated data on global warming to support their argument that it’s man made. The World’s Laura Lynch has the story.
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• China and US jockey on climate

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 604
  Download audio file (1204098.mp3) Download MP3 China is going above and beyond in preparation for next week’s climage change summit in Copenhagen. Officials have come up with a plan for reducing greenhouse gases. But they’re also outlining ways to clean up its air, land, water, and in the process, its image. ...
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