Tag Archives: climate change
April 28, 2009 – 11:05 am
In a little more than a week, Europe’s largest conference on corporate social responsibility (CSR) - The Responsible Business Summit - will be taking place in the UK on May 11 and 12 in London. If you are working in the area of the environment, or just think that CSR is something you would like [...]
December 5, 2008 – 2:06 am
You might see their little purple delivery truck zooming around a street near you –– if you live in the Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles or Vancouver areas. Painted with the word spud! (for Small Potatoes Urban Delivery), the little green grocer on wheels is setting a fine example for small business owners everywhere.
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October 24, 2008 – 5:02 am
Considering the financial implosion happening around the globe, I can’t help but feel a little strange writing about carbon offsets. With stock markets down up to 50%, banks evaporating, and whole countries going bankrupt, who has the time or money to think about carbon emissions?
But the Earth hasn’t stopped turning and we haven’t stopped pouring [...]
October 7, 2008 – 4:38 am
If you’ve been following our interviews on corporate carbon offsetting (managing corporate carbon legally, eight steps to offsetting your business and why consumer offsets are failing), no doubt other questions before or beyond offsetting have popped into your mind. Carbon offsetting, experts recommend, is important to consider at the end of the line –– after [...]
October 3, 2008 – 12:36 am
Personal, voluntary carbon offsets are a drop in the bucket compared to what companies can achieve. As we’ve learned earlier from Carbon Concierge, streamlining processes, opting for cleaner power, and making employees aware are some important first steps to take before offsetting. For the full interview, see Carbon Concierge Balances Business and Carbon Offsets With [...]
By Karin Kloosterman
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Posted in Business, Standards
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Also tagged carbon emission, carbon inventory, carbon management, carbon neutral, carbon offset, clean energy, corporate offset, global warming, laws, verifier
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Now is the time to scream “Fire!” So writes Andrew Simms, the policy director and head of the climate change program at the New Economics Foundation (NEF) –– a “think and do tank” –– in an opinion editorial at the Guardian. Carbon Catalog has heard an even less conservative five year estimate from experts we’ve [...]
By Karin Kloosterman
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Posted in How-To
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Also tagged carbon offset, carbon offsetting, clean energy, clean technology, energy independence, fossil fuel, fuel efficiency, government, green investments, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Policy, United Kingdom
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Berzin Discusses Carbon Sequestration, the Future of Biofuel and the Fate of Our Earth
Scientists dream about a massive machine that can suck up carbon dioxide, curing overnight –– or at least within our lifetime –– our ailing planet from warming up at a ferocious pace. A NASA chemical engineer working on bioreactors may have come [...]
If the forecasts are right, the carbon offset market could climb to $1 trillion by 2020, reports New Carbon Finance and that’s only in the United States (PDF) One trillion is a whole lot of money for something we can’t feel, see, weigh or taste.
And it’s nothing resembling Fool’s Gold: According to Plenty Magazine (via [...]
Are you a UK citizen who flies to Majorca at the drop of a hat? Do you crank up the heat in the winter, and the air-con in the summer? Maybe you can’t live without your SUV? Well there’s some bad news coming your way: if you are an energy-hogging British citizen you might just [...]
The Dutch are known to be earthy and sensible people, and thanks to the little boy who stuck his finger in the dyke, resourceful too. All these elements combined may be why the tiny country is, according to today’s featured guest the Climate Neutral Group, ranking second in Europe after the UK, in carbon offsetting.
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