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Three ways to reduce the carbon footprint of food purchased by US households

Three ways to reduce the carbon footprint of food purchased by US households

11/03/21

Most consumers want to make food purchases that are smart for their wallets, their health and the environment. And while switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet can lower one’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions,…

Three Simple Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Three Simple Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

01/26/21

A greenhouse gas is a gas which absorbs infrared radiation. These gases, when they absorb this radiation, trap heat that would otherwise escape the planet’s atmosphere and filter off into space. Radiation which is unable to escape…

We need to talk about the most effective ways to reduce our carbon footprint

We need to talk about the most effective ways to reduce our carbon footprint

10/02/20

We need to be honest about not just the behavioral changes that will make the biggest difference in reducing emissions, but about what it will take to get there.

A Guide to the Good, Low-Carbon Life

01/13/20

For about the last 10 years, environmental law professor Karl Coplan has been trying to winnow down his direct footprint of carbon-dioxide emissions. He has been successful, and has just published a book chronicling his…

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Your website could be doing the environment dirty. Here’s how to clean it up.

Popular Science

Your website could be doing the environment dirty. Here’s how to clean it up.

By Angely Mercado Photo: Jessica Lynn Lewis from Pexels 10/26/21

No trees are seemingly cut down every time you Google something or read a social media post on your phone or laptop. But websites alone do create emissions—internet usage is responsible for almost four percent…

Beef Industry Tries to Erase Its Emissions With Fuzzy Methane Math

Bloomberg Green

Beef Industry Tries to Erase Its Emissions With Fuzzy Methane Math

By Ben Elgin Illustration: Ian Grandjean 10/19/21

Scientists with the world’s top climate organization made reducing meat consumption an official policy recommendation in 2019, echoing what environmentalists had urged for years: Eating less meat, in particular beef, reduces the large volume of…

Forget Your Carbon Footprint. Let’s Talk About Your Climate Shadow.

mic

Forget Your Carbon Footprint. Let’s Talk About Your Climate Shadow.

By Emma Pattee Photo: Peter Gamlen for Mic 10/12/21

onsider these two people: One flies weekly for work; the other lives in a studio apartment and walks to the office every day. On the surface, it’s clear here who has the bigger carbon footprint.…

Google Cloud will now show its users their carbon footprint in the cloud

Tech Crunch

Google Cloud will now show its users their carbon footprint in the cloud

By Frederic Lardinois Photo: Westend61 / Getty Images 10/12/21

Google Cloud today announced a new (and free) feature that will provide its users with custom carbon footprint reports that detail the carbon emissions their cloud usage generates.

Google Flights will now show you the environmental impact of your travel

The Washington Post

Google Flights will now show you the environmental impact of your travel

By Natalie B. Compton Photo: María Alconada Brooks 10/06/21

To help users find more sustainable travel options, Google launched a feature Wednesday that will show a carbon-emissions estimate for almost every flight in its search results. Now, along with price and duration, travelers will…

Google launches new features to help users shrink their carbon footprints

The Verge

Google launches new features to help users shrink their carbon footprints

By Justine Calma Photo: Google 10/06/21

Google announced a suite of new features that it says will help people who use their platforms make more sustainable choices. The new services focus on reducing planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions and are primarily found on Search,…

Companies bet carbon labels can help the climate. Will consumers catch on?

The Washington Post

Companies bet carbon labels can help the climate. Will consumers catch on?

By Jessica Wolfrom Photo: Elaine Thompson/Associated Press 06/17/21

The world is littered with labels — markers that tell you how many calories are in a candy bar or if a tomato is organic. Now, companies are creating labels to show consumers the environmental…

The Fallacy of Our Carbon Footprint

Yes Magazine

The Fallacy of Our Carbon Footprint

By Emma Pattee 05/10/21

In 1992, a Canadian ecologist named William Rees coined the term “ecological footprint,” a measurement of how much any entity was impacting the planet’s ecology. A decade later, British Petroleum started promoting a new term:…

Bag the Carbon Calculators. You Didn’t Cause This.

Climate Crocks

Bag the Carbon Calculators. You Didn’t Cause This.

By Peter Sinclair 10/08/20

“But what can I do to fight climate change?” is a frequently asked question for anyone that does communication on this topic – and I used to have a ready list of everyday things one…

Gordon: Logging, carbon capture could help limit severe wildfires, reduce carbon footprint

Oil City News

Gordon: Logging, carbon capture could help limit severe wildfires, reduce carbon footprint

By Brendan LaChance Photo by John Roedel 10/05/20

Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon said during a Monday, Oct. 5 press conference that “we have got to embrace that we have got to do a better job of managing our forests.” Gordon’s comments came as…

New model proposed to reduce carbon footprint

Phys.org

New model proposed to reduce carbon footprint

By Lea Jones Photo: CC0 Public Domain 07/21/20

Prior to the global pandemic, climate researchers identified an uncomfortable truth: the very meetings and events meant to support the fight against climate change were themselves causing vast greenhouse gas emissions through international air travel.