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• Travelocity Offers Free Carbon Offsets for the Holidays

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 666
  Planning on travelling this holiday season?  Travelocity, the online travel agency, is serious about sustainable travel that will benefit both traveler and Mother Earth, one mile at a time. In an effort to “embrace travel as an agent of positive change,” the online travel company offers several ways for travelers ...
  21 hours ago

• Carbon Offsetting Versus True Green Hosting

  
  Web Hosting Geeks' Blog - News, Trends, Discussions. — Authority: 125
  It can be quite tricky when attempting to determine the difference between a web hosting company that touts itself as being 100% eco-friendly and a web hosting company that offers true green hosting.  What is the difference?  One purchases carbon offset credits in the equivalent of what they produce in carbon ...
  1 week ago

• Plane Answers: Three inexpensive ways to make flying safer

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: Plane Answers The culture in aviation has always been focused around how to make flying even more safe. The FAA, NTSB and even Congress are looking into ways to improve air safety after the 49 people were killed in the Colgan Air accident in February-the only fatal accident in the U.S. so far in ...
  1 week ago

• InJet Offers Carbon Offsetting for Private Jets

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 142
  One of the most controversial issues relating to climate change is the practice of carbon offsetting.  While some think is a great way for individuals and businesses to balance out the carbon that they emit into the environment, others feel it simply puts a band-aid on the issue and allows people to continue to abuse ...
  1 week ago

• Inflation is theft

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 446
  Some things are too important for politicis – monetary policy is one of them. But Phil Goff has turned his back on 20 years of concensus with his announcement that fighting inflation is no longer the most important priority. “Our Reserve Bank policy targets are not well designed to produce a stable and ...
  1 week ago

• Energy bill generates weak signal | Queens speech | James Randerson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  With Copenhagen just days away the ragtag bill in the Queens speech failed to send the message the green sector needs The political chatter ahead of the Queens speech was all about Labour using its final throw of the legislative dice to draw clear battle lines with the Tories . If that is the case elsewhere in the ...
  1 week ago

• UK Staff Clueless about Company Green Policy

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 142
  If you asked most people if they thought their office was environmentally friendly, most would think of the recycling bin next to the copy machine and answer that they thought their company was green.  A recent study confirmed that most United Kingdom employees think that their company is green, when in reality it ...
  1 week ago

• Response: The European emissions trading scheme is now a success

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  It was not the market that failed, but the policies that governed how it worked Your article is profoundly disheartening ( Carbon trading is useless, says Friends of the Earth report , 5 November). Instead of adding political pressure to commit to emissions reduction targets, FoE criticises carbon markets and ...
  2 weeks ago

• David de Rothschild loves life off the grid

  
  Off-Grid - life unplugged: solar, wind, hydro, architecture, smallholdings, free stuff — Authority: 423
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  2 weeks ago

• How green are these corporations? Latest carbon disclosure project scores

  
  News: Datablog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 127
  How environmentally aware is the FTSE350? Research by the Carbon Disclosure Project aims to give us a picture The work of the Carbon Disclosure Project in diligently attempting to survey every major corporation produces a unique snapshot of the corporate carbon culture. This years FTSE 350 Report shows UK ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Angry Mermaid Strikes Back

  
  Oil Change — Authority: 419
  All the news reports this morning are that a deal at Copenhagen is dead. Barack Obama has said that we had run out of time to secure a deal in December. This will please the corporate lobbyists no end.  The longer they can delay action on climate the better. But now Copenhagen’s iconic mermaid is striking back. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Science Weekly podcast: Top 10 eco myths and regrowing breasts after mastectomy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Duncan Clark , Guardian environment writer and author of The Rough Guide to Green Living , tells us about his top 10 eco myths. (1:25) In the newsjam we look at Britains renewable energy targets , a new technique to regrow breasts following mastectomy , a recent spate of cancer deaths among rescuers after 9/11 ...
  2 weeks ago

• CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Trading Welcomed, Criticised

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From Ipsnews.net | NIASSA PROVINCE, Mozambique, Nov 5 (IPS) – A visit from Dutch contractors to Niassa Province, in northwestern Mozambique has got communities excited about the prospect of a carbon credit scheme in the area. Gathered under a large mango tree in a lakeside village, a community is deep ...
  2 weeks ago

• Low Impact Living’s Impact Calculator

  
  Green Home Hints and Tips - Household Green Cleaning Eco Friendly Products, Green products, Energy Saving Tips, Water Efficiency — Authority: 116
  Ever wonder just how much of everything you use?  Just what is your impact on the planet.  I’m not talking about something simple like how much electricity you use, or how much natural gas your furnace uses.  How about all of the other little things that slip through the cracks….the things we don’t really ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dont let the reckless City trade carbon | Andy Atkins

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  As the City recovers from one disaster, the next is on its way – but carbon trading will damage the planet, not just the economy You couldnt make it up: in the middle of the most serious recession for decades, with banks bailed out with billions of pounds of taxpayers money, the denizens of the City have sniffed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Friends of the Earth attacks carbon trading

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  An FoE reports says cap and trade carbonn markets have done little to reduce emissions but have been plagued by corruption and inefficiency The worlds carbon trading markets growing complexity threatens another "sub-prime" style financial crisis that could again destabilise the global economy, campaigners warn ...
  3 weeks ago

• Carbon emission offsets may now be transferred across registries

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 524
  | Sourced From Greenmomentum.com | The Voluntary Carbon Standard Association, carbon emission offsets can be transferred across different registries. This is expected to boost liquidity in the voluntary carbon market. According to a report from Reuters, the Voluntary Carbon Standard registry system is now able to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Warren Buffett gambles on trains by buying BNSF for $34bn

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Buffett calls investment all-in wager on economic future of US • BNSF helped by carbon pricing, fuel cost and traffic congestion The worlds second-richest man, Warren Buffett, is spending $34bn (£20.8bn) on a vast American railway in a punt on economic recovery and on the long-term growth of freight transport ...
  3 weeks ago

• Green private jets? Dont make me laugh

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Private jet companies are charging executives puny sums to supposedly make the flights carbon-neutral. What a greenwash Ah, the joys of your own executive jet. No more standing in line at the airport; no more travelling according to someone elses timetable; no more getting into the same plane as beastly ordinary ...
  4 weeks ago

• Swedish Arlanch Gold Watch No 1 Is Eco Friendly-ish, Little In More Ways That One

  
  aBlogtoRead.com — Authority: 499
  Made for a man, sized for a woman? Apparently that is what Swedish watch designer Gabriel Arlanch had in mind when making his first watch, the Arlanch Gold Watch No 1 as it is 32mm wide. Little! Sorta kid sized, or lady sized. Maybe I am getting it all wrong and this is a womans watch. The was was announced mid last ...
  5 weeks ago

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