Recent Posts Tagged With 'carbon'

• Carbon Hero key chain tracks your travel emissions

  Posted on Tuesday February 26th, 2008 at 11:37 in products, carbon emissions, transportation, emissions, carbon, keychain, carbon output, carbon hero

  For most of us, transportation is the biggest way in which we contribute to carbon emissions. But because carbon is invisible, it makes it difficult for us to witness the impact of our actions and improve our daily behaviors. Enter......

• Cap and Trade Programs Explained

  Posted on Wednesday February 20th, 2008 at 17:08 in climate change, policy, emissions, carbon, emissions trading, carbon output, cap and trade

  There's a tremendous amount of talk lately about Emissions Cap and Trade programs. All of the major presidential candidates have a national program at the center of their environmental proposals. But the concept is new to most US citizens. How......

• Green News Round-Up: Making Oil from CO2, Sky Sails, and Paris Hilton?

  Posted on Friday February 15th, 2008 at 18:50 in climate change, carbon dioxide, carbon

  Lots of interesting green news out in the last few days: Los Alamos Laboratories (yes, the guys that do the nukes) says that it has figured out how to suck CO2 out of the air, mix it with water, and......

• 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...

• Hot Water Heater Audit

  Posted on Thursday December 6th, 2007 at 12:46 in audit, carbon, hot water, natural gas, hot water heater, carbon output

  Up until recently, my energy audits have pretty much ignored my appliances. Which is an enormous thing to handwave. Appliances are huge energy suckers. But my arm muscles are too measly to roll them out of their designated areas to......

• Carbon Audit: Evaluating my Automobiles

  Posted on Friday November 30th, 2007 at 13:20 in audit, emissions, carbon, carbon output

  Read other articles in the Carbon Audit Series: an ongoing investigation into our carbon footprint. My husband and I own three cars. Yes, that’s right. Two people, three cars, 12 wheels, and 15 seats. Let’s just say that my husband......

• The Carbon Audit: Evaluating 4 Carbon Footprint Websites

  Posted on Friday November 9th, 2007 at 12:32 in audit, emissions, carbon, footprint, carbon output, carbon audit

  Read other articles in the Carbon Audit Series: an ongoing investigation into our carbon footprint. I admit it. After starting my energy, water, and waste audits, I’ve been delaying an audit around my carbon emissions. Mostly because I’m not sure...