Recent Posts Tagged With 'carbon footprint'

• The Revolution will look like Tupperware Parties

  Posted on Sunday February 17th, 2008 at 12:16 in project, party, carbon footprint, ecomoms

  Today's NYTimes highlights a growing trend happening in surburban living rooms across America. EcoMom Parties are the new Tupperware party, with neighborhood mothers gathering together to discuss how they are evolving their lives to reducing their ca...

• Costco is going green

  Posted on Sunday February 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 in solar power, carbon footprint, green business, costco

  Costco CEO Jim Sinegal announced in their latest investors meeting that they will be expanding their effort to reduce their environmental impact. As a start, Costco has begun installing large solar arrays on the roofs of their stores in California......

• Summing up green progress in 2007

  Posted on Friday January 4th, 2008 at 13:51 in conservation, results, carbon footprint, footprint reduction

  Happy New Year from Brave New Leaf! We are just back from a friend's wedding, and still recovering from a very busy holiday season. As I watched the Space Needle fireworks fail to go off at the stroke of midnight,......

• Four simple ways to keep your water hot, and reduce your carbon footprint

  Posted on Thursday December 20th, 2007 at 16:00 in project, carbon footprint, carbon dioxide, natural gas, insulation, hot water heater, carbon output

  In a recent look at my hot water heater, I discovered that the gas burned to heat my water is responsible for 8.1% of my CO2 emissions, or 1.5 tons of carbon a year. It took me some time, but......

• The System: Tracking our Carbon Footprint

  Posted on Friday December 7th, 2007 at 13:18 in carbon emissions, carbon footprint, carbon dioxide, carbon, carbon output

  Read other articles in the Carbon Audit Series: an ongoing investigation into our carbon footprint. At this point, I've completed enough individual audits to have a good sense for my overall carbon footprint. Here's what it looks like yearly: Nearly....

• More help with calculating a carbon footprint

  Posted on Friday December 7th, 2007 at 12:14 in carbon emissions, carbon footprint, audit, carbon, carbon calculator, carbon output

  I found a couple of more useful carbon emissions calculators, that I thought I would share. 1. TerraPass Flight Carbon Calculator (http://www.terrapass.com/flight/flightcalc.php) This groovy calculator lets you type in the specific arrival and destin...