Recent Posts Tagged With 'carbon'

• Simple Ways Wednesdays - Episode 11

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 08:00 in money, cool, energy, Emission, quality, compact fluorescent, cfl, congress, power, light, efficient, waste

  Replace your incandescent light bulbs with more efficient bulbs Ever burned yourself on a light bulb? Ever think about where that heat comes from? All that heat is energy that is used, but does not create light.  There is waste in just that realizat...

• Dying to offset your carbon emissions?

  Posted on Monday May 5th, 2008 at 15:03 in cool, Plant, australia, green, carbon emissions, short, service, study, site, carbon footprint, planting, run

  Based on a study of the environmental impacts of cremations and burials done by the cemetery, cremation produces less carbon emissions in the long run because of ongoing upkeep of the burial site; however, in the "short run," cremations generate abou...

• Greening your travels - Part 1

  Posted on Monday April 14th, 2008 at 13:01 in collection, budget, traveling, Cars, cool, airplane, Natural, greenhouse, Golf, focus, toyota, liberty

  Let's focus on greening your rental car at your destination!...

• Greener Railroading

  Posted on Tuesday February 19th, 2008 at 15:53 in invest, boat, progressive, buy, los angeles, air, transportation, encourage, efficient, pollution, ship, industry

  The UP railroad has plans to buy "green switchers," join the American Wind Energy Association, and invest $300 million into greening the Los Angeles Intermodal Container Transfer Facility....

• Countdown to a Green Valentine’s Day - Day 7

  Posted on Thursday February 7th, 2008 at 21:43 in Plant, Local, valentine, Eco-friendly, gardening, organic, earth, certified, florist, flower, south america, seed

  Everyone enjoys flowers for Valentine's Day, whether they are giving them or receiving them - so if you are a flower person, make sure you give eco-friendly flowers this year....

• $500 contest - flyering eco-conscious cars!

  Posted on Thursday January 17th, 2008 at 13:08 in global warming, climate change, awareness, Car, automobile, competition, earth, transportation, gas, efficient, drive, carbon footprint

  Planet Thoughts is running the Super-Cars Shout Out Competition for an opportunity to win US $500!...

• First commercial airliner to use bio-Jet Fuel

  Posted on Wednesday January 16th, 2008 at 15:01 in climate change, aviation, Natural, virgin, Alternative, JET, transportation, gas, commercial, united kingdom, flies, carbon footprint

  Virgin Atlantic has announced that the company will complete a demonstration flight (no passengers) from London to Amsterdam - using a Boeing 747 running only on biofuel - in February....

• Sequestering Carbon - a new idea!

  Posted on Sunday December 30th, 2007 at 10:13 in global warming, climate change, global, carbon footprint, environmental, carbon dioxide, carbon, baking soda, sequester

  How to sequester Carbon Dioxide from power plants: turn it into sodium bicarbonate - a.k.a. Baking Soda!...

• Jet Airplane runs on Fast-Food Leftovers

  Posted on Friday December 21st, 2007 at 12:53 in aviation, Alternative, JET, entrepreneurship, test, transportation, gas, recycle, fuel, vegetable, environmental, emissions

  Green Flight International and Biodiesel Solutions teamed up and flew the first 100% biodiesel fuel powered flight in a Czechoslovakian-built L-29 jet. The flight on October 2nd used recycled vegetable oil from restaurants....