Articles tagged “Carbon Offsets”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Meet Change Maker Andrew Field of PrintingForLess.com By Eric Leech IN Work & Connect Oct 30 2008 With its massive use of chemicals and waste, the printing industry has a huge environmental footprint. And while many of us are working toward a paperless office, we all know that it's easier said than done. Cleaner, greener printing is good step forward, but it means more than just using recycled paper. + READ MORE

Can You Feel OK About Filling Up With Ethanol? By Josh Peterson IN Tech & Transport Oct 9 2008 Ethanol has been getting a bad rap lately. People talk about ethanol as if it were worse than regular gasoline. Ethanol isn't perfect. It's not a global-warming panacea. + READ MORE

Take a Green Walking Tour of London, Shop Your Way to Healthy and Listen to an Eco-Shoe Guru By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 11 2008 Hop the pond to a greener London. Consult the Good Guide to help make healthy shopping easy. Become eco-inspired listening to our interview with the creator of sustainable shoe brand, Toms. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Carbon Offsets By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Sep 10 2008 Many of us in the treehugging crowd are aware of our carbon footprint and warily survey the landscape with the concept of carbon output on our mind. A carbon offset is a "financial instrument representing a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions." How, you wonder? Wiki tells us: "One carbon offset represents the reduction of one metric ton of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases." Ultimately, it's just a trade, right? + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Carbon Tax By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Sep 10 2008 The Carbon Tax Center defines it as such: "A carbon tax is a tax on the carbon content of fuels—effectively a tax on the carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. Thus, carbon tax is shorthand for carbon dioxide tax or CO2 tax." + READ MORE

How Lightly Are You Treading on the Planet? By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Aug 29 2008 So, you think you're doing everything you can to help the environment, but how are your lifestyle choices really adding up? Several eco-footprint calculators are available to test just how well you're doing. But which to choose? + READ MORE

Ready, Set, Green, Week Eight: Making Green Travel Plans By Blythe Copeland IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 7 2008 I've made some big strides toward going green at home?now it's time to take those changes along on my next vacation. We've been hoping to go to Ireland?which is a whole different kind of green?but now there's more to consider: the carbon offsets of flying there and a week or two of traveling the countryside, just for starters. + READ MORE

Ready, Set, Green, Week Four: The Plane Truth By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 11 2008 I know planes aren't great for the earth, what with all the carbon dioxide emissions. That works out nicely for me, because flying is not my favorite way to get from point A to point B?but I do love new places, and I'm more than happy to white my knuckles during take off and turbulence if it means going somewhere I've never been. Since we spend at least one weekend a month on a road trip, real vacations for us mean getting out the passports and the rolling suitcases and preparing for takeoff. + READ MORE

Make Greener Choices for Your Vacation Journey and Destination By Collin Dunn IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 8 2008 Choosing vacation destinations -- and deciding how to get there -- often involve many different considerations: time and money budgets; different interests of kids, parents, and friends; and the relative greenness of all your plans. Considering the environment, though, can actually make your travel planning easier. + READ MORE

Visit The Golden, Green City On The Cheap! By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 15 2008 This is one in a series of tips from the book Go Green, Live Rich, by David Bach, which shows how reducing your footprint can increase your wealth.Get around in green style: San Fran is a walkable city but the Muni (the San Francisco Municipal Railway) also offers cheap, energy efficient ways to cruise around including... + READ MORE

Meet Change Maker Heidi Matonis, Founder of Positivitee By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Mar 12 2008 Today, we're going to meet Heidi Matonis, founder and principal designer for Positivitee, a line of sustainable and sweatshop-free activist shirts and tees with a difference: $5 from the sale of each shirt goes toward a non-profit organization such as the Retired Thoroughbred Foundation, Oceana, and Heifer International. + READ MORE

Calculate Your Carbon Emissions Using Localized Data By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Mar 11 2008 Another day, another carbon calculator. The CoolClimate Calculator, on the other hand, factors where you live, since local and regional climate can have an impact on how much heating and cooling you do in your home, in addition to how many miles you fly each year, how much you drive, and what foods you eat. + READ MORE

Calculate Your Laundry Footprint By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 25 2008 Your whites may be dazzlingly white, but how green is your wash? Get sorted into the right pile with the Sierra Club's simple quiz, with 10 questions that suss out the frequency of your washing, the cost of your monthly dry-cleaning bill, and the temperature of the water you use, among other laundering inclinations. + READ MORE

Reduce Your Company's Carbon Footprint By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Feb 11 2008 As part of its goal to operate as an environmentally aware and carbon-neutral company by 2009, Guidance, which designs and supports business applications and technology solutions, has developed a guide you can download to help you evaluate your own company's carbon footprint. Offset your remaining carbon footprint:... + READ MORE

Calculate Your Car's Energy Impact Score By Collin Dunn IN Tech & Transport Feb 7 2008 Sure, we all know (approximately) how much gas costs these days, and how far our cars will go on a gallon, or a tank, of gas, but do you know your car's energy impact score? From there, you can take steps to get better mileage and find a carbon offset company worth your bucks to offset the rest. ::EPA's Energy Impact... + READ MORE

Find, Sign Up for Green Web Hosting By Collin Dunn IN Tech & Transport Jan 31 2008 Since most of us never see them, it's easy to forget that there are huge server farms and expansive offices that keep the internet whirring along. As the industry has grown with the green movement's rising popularity, many different options have become available; with options including renewable energy credits (RECs,... + READ MORE

Find a Carbon-Offset Company You Can Trust By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Jan 16 2008 "Carbon offsets" and "carbon-neutral" are phrases you'll hear getting tossed around a lot these days, but whether they're actually all cracked up to be is another bone of contention. Online calculators can help you estimate the amount of carbon dioxide your jetsetting or road-warrior habits are responsible for... + READ MORE

Recycle Your Cell Phone for Fun, Profit By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Features Dec 26 2007 Got a shiny new wireless phone or PDA from Saint Nick's loot sack this holiday?Help out a soldier serving abroad: Thirteen-year-old Brittany Bergquist and her 12-year-old brother, Robbie, launched Cell Phones for Soldiers in 2004 to provide as many overseas soldiers as possible with prepaid calling cards, which the... + READ MORE

Last Minute Gifts: Go Online for Donations By Lloyd Alter IN Work & Connect Dec 21 2007 If you're running out of time, but still have a few people on your list, what can you do at the last minute?Or you might donate a couple of hours to a time bank and offer them to a loved one, or purchase a couple of tons of carbon offsets (really, they are not that heavy). + READ MORE