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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• Tis the Season for Carbon Neutral Boozen

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 724
  photo: J.Novak For some, being in such tight quarters with the family can drive you to drink. Or maybe you just want a nice glass of pinot with your vegan roast. Either way, finding sustainable wines can be as important as finding sustainable eats. And fortunately Mother Nature Network just released its list of ...
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• New EPA Web Site Provides Tools to Cut Energy Costs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Homes

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 544
  | Sourced From Lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu | Home owners, buyers and renters have a new resource for going green indoors and outdoors. EPA’s new Green Homes Web site will help people make their homes greener with tips on reducing energy consumption, carbon footprints, waste generation and water usage, as well as improving ...
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• Green Turismo: To save the Earth and save gas, turn cars into video games

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 808
  Filed under: Energy , Technology , Economy , Green My friend has a Tesla Roadster. For those who are unfamiliar with Tesla Motors, the Roadster is the Ferrari of the electric-vehicle world, a high-performance two-seater with more sex appeal than Mae West. How ironic, then, that my friend pines for her old Honda ...
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• Free advice on carbon footprint

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 544
  | Sourced From Basingstokegazette.co.uk | BUSINESSES in the borough are being given the chance to save money by reducing their carbon footprint. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is offering free carbon management training sessions for businesses with fewer than 250 employees. The half-day training session ...
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• TUI banks on Boeing to cut its carbon

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 544
  | Sourced From Eturbonews.com | TUI Travel aims to cut its carbon footprint with technologically-advanced Boeing 787 aircraft joining its fleet – although the recession means it has cancelled 10 of the 23 it had originally ordered. The travel giant generates an annual carbon footprint of 7.6m tons by flying its ...
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• UK Plays Ostrich

  
  Greenme: Sustainable Living Blog — Authority: 127
  In the last few weeks the UK Government has announced that it has given the green light for 10 more nuclear stations to be built to help cover energy supply over the next 30 to 50 years and help lower its CO2 emissions.  Or so they say. Well done team, you have once again shown impeccable leadership where denial of ...
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• Make a difference while you shop Support charities free – just by shopping online

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 162
  I was browsing the net and i came across this site. Froggy Bank You earn cashback to shop from 1500 retailers and use some of it to help environmental causes or offset your carbon footprint. You can easily offset your carbon emissions and still pocket hundreds of pounds every year – without spending an extra penny. ...
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• Track My T Please

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 560
  Anvil CSR The t-shirt. How many are crammed in your drawers? You may not think of this everyday fashion staple as making a big eco dent, but if you trace the tee you’ll quickly see how it can work as an effective instrument for change. Anvil Knitwear , sponsor of Track My T , is a new interactive web site ...
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• The Quinnipiac Bobcats get Top Rankings for Sustainability – Windspire

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 493
  While others are wondering how to reduce their carbon footprint, Quinnipiac University is doing something about it. They are installing twenty-five Windspire vertical wind turbines at the first university micro-wind farm in the country. The turbines are being installed at Quinnipiac University ’s new York Hill ...
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• Carbon Foot Prints, a new world of taxes and duties

  
  Search Amelia Island News — Authority: 151
  Britain introduced an Air Passenger Duty on November 1st. Now supposedly this Duty is to offset the environmental damage of air travel’s carbon footprint.  A carbon footprint reflects how much carbon monoxide a product, unit or individual releases into the atmosphere.While still a controversial issue in much of the ...
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• The Simplest, 4-Step Quiz to Determine Your Carbon Footprint

  
  Planet Green — Authority: 640
  The Wa$ted Ecological Footprint Calculator will let you calculate how all your behaviors add up to your total carbon footprint. How many planets would be required to support the worlds population if everyone lived an equivalent lifestyle?
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• Klimate Change

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 142
  Fred Bloggs. I recently found this on Englishmans Castle . As the story goes, the wartermellons at East Anglia university had their computers hacked by the russians and all their e-mails and stuff was “acquired.” The stuff contained within is really quite frightening, as they have set out “rules” so that ...
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• Inka Curve: Innovative Self Sustained Vertical Solar Micro-farm

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 140
  If you are an eco freak and are interested in having a small micro-farm to grow your own fruits, vegetables, herbs etc that too in a sustainable way but don’t have enough space in your backyard then you could get yourself Inka Curve. Inka Curve is a complete ecosystem – it is a vertical micro-farm connected to ...
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• Track My T

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 125
  What it is: Track My T is a truly impressive website that I learned about from @dianadell on Twitter. Track my T lets students type in the unique lot number on their t-shirt and then go through an amazing interactive journey tracking their t-shirt from its very beginning as a cotton seed on a farm, to every ...
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• Outspoken Carbon Monitoring: Zerofootprints RFID TalkingPlugs

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 724
  The CEO of Zerofootprint , Ron Dembo, is a man who has often written and been written about on TreeHugger. Now it looks like this outspoken man is ready to let the worlds power plugs start speaking for themselves. Zerofootprint, his energy and carbon management firm, has broken into the hardware world with ...
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• Fossil Fuel Emissions Rose 29% since 2000

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 630
  A report (PDF) by scientists shows that emissions are outpacing the ability of ocean and land carbon sinks to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). They are concerned that if natural sinks can’t keep pace with the increased CO2 emission ...
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• Captain of Industry Takes a Spear in the Chest

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 729
  Ray Anderson, founder of carpet giant Interface, explains in Confessions of a Radical Industrialist that his environmental epiphany was like a "spear in the chest." Delivered to him by some reindeer in Paul Hawkens The Ecology of Commerce, Anderson relates ...
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• New Value in FSC Certified Forests

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Dylan Tanner Until plantation forestry became prominent several decades ago, the plentiful supply of forests around the world meant that the traditional model of producing timber was to clear cut old and secondary growth forest and utilize the land for tree plantations on a 15-30 year cycle. In tropical ...
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• Bollywood means nothing to me: Lucky Ali (Interview)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) He is the son of the legendary Mehmood, grew up in Bollywood, sung several chartbusters like “Ek pal ka jeena” and even acted in movies like “Kaante” and “Sur”, but Lucky Ali says the world of Hindi cinema means nothing to him.“There is nothing to talk about Bollywood. It means ...
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• UN attacks parents

  
  New World Order University Forum — Authority: 123
  The United Families International Blog is a good place to keep up with the coordinated Communist global attack on parent’s rights. This post describes the threat of home visitation from government bureaucrats authorized in the “health care” bill. Tune in to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to ...
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