Tag: carbon emissions

  • Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/30/2010

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    Photo credit Lauren Manning And here are this week’s Green Numbers: GE: Good citizen, but where’s the payoff? Inside GE, Ecomagination is deemed a success, so much so that it has spawned a sister initiative (if you can spawn a sister) called Healthymagination, focused on profitably creating better health for more people. GE says that…

  • Friday Green Numbers round-up 04/23/2010

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    And here is this week’s Green numbers: Like Sept.11, volcano plane ban may hold climate clue | Reuters Plane-free skies over Europe during Iceland’s volcanic eruption may yield rare clues about how flights stoke climate change, adding to evidence from a closure of U.S. airspace after September 11, 2001, experts say tags: airplane, aviation, iceland,…

  • How not to implement a carbon tax

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    The decision by the French government to back down on plans to enact a carbon tax is very disappointing, and not a little puzzling. President Sarkozy initially said plans to introduce a carbon tax were a monumental act of the French Republic — a measure so important President Nicolas Sarkozy ranked it beside “decolonization, election…

  • NightWatchman saving energy

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    Following on from my earlier post about the importance of turning things off, we had a briefing the other day from a company called 1E. 1E entered the power management space about 10 years ago when they wrote NightWatchman. NightWatchman is a PC power management application which aims to reduce the energy wasted by computers…

  • Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 01/29/2010

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    U.S. pledges 17 percent emissions reduction by 2020 – washingtonpost.com The United States pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels under an international climate agreement, though it made its commitment contingent on passing legislation at home. […]

  • What If We Create a Better World For Nothing?

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    One of my goals in 2010 is to help move the sustainability debate beyond Global Warming. Global Warming or Climate Change is still arguable – while other environmental impacts and issues are not. Its surely time for sustainability advocates to reframe our narrative – and get beyond the Global Warming debate. We […]

  • CO2 emissions vs income

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    I generated this graph on Prof Hans Rosling’s Gapminder.org site. The data shows, somewhat surprisingly that the increase in carbon emissions in countries like Ireland and the US from 1975 to 2002 are not in any way mirrored by any increases in China or India. In the recent Bali talks (and the Kyoto talks before…