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Chicago data center provider Steadfast Networks has purchased carbon credits from a non-profit environmentalist organization in February, offsetting about 127 tons of CO2 emissions. Contribution to Carbonfund.org is part of the company’s wider initiative to reduce the company’s direct or related carbon footprint.
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Speaking in Goleta, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on March 5 defended the Obama administration’s decision to oppose a long-term nuclear waste storage site in Nevada and urged lawmakers to avoid protectionism in funding renewable energy.
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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Steadfast Networks (http://steadfast.net) announced on Tuesday it has purchased enough carbon offset credits to offer a 100 percent carbon offset for its staff commuting, office usage, core infrastructure, networking equipment, shared web hosting, VPS hosting, and backup services.
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McLean, VA — In today’s environmentally conscious climate, many homeowners are making changes to their daily lives that have a positive impact on the earth – or at least a less detrimental effect.
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Some plastics packaging processors’ sustainability plans are further along than others. Among the pace setters is Innovia Films, which has earned CarbonNeutral certification for its range of cellulose-based NatureFlex coated biodegradable and compostable packaging films.
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Over at top-notch young Seattle news site Publicola, Erica Barnett brings news of what could be a momentous decision by the Seattle City Council: to set about making Seattle a carbon-neutral city.
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The devastating consequences of climate change are already beginning to claim victims.
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Commenting on the report of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee ‘The role of carbon markets in preventing dangerous climate change’, David Porter, Chief Executive of the UK’s Association of Electricity Producers said:
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SAVEX, the retail exhibition taking place this year between February 11 – 14, 2010 and April 29 – May 1, 2010 at the Airport Expo Centre in Dubai, has achieved the distinction of being the first Business-To-Consumer exhibition in this region to achieve Carbon Neutral status. EcoVentures, the Middle East’s premier emissions reduction firm was the consultant for this ‘green initiative’ aimed at offsetting the environmental impact caused by the event, through implementation of a carbon management strategy and purchase of carbon credits.
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In today’s fast-moving information world, the concept of letting your fingers do the walking rarely goes beyond a computer keyboard.
But it seems traditional hard copy telephone books are surviving the internet age, despite their often unwelcome arrival each year and pressures on companies to go green.
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Supermarket group Tesco, which pumps out some four million tonnes of carbon a year, today opened its first zero carbon store as part of its bid to be a carbon neutral company by 2050.
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When the Vancouver Games commence next Friday, Coca-Cola is aiming for its own gold medal of sorts: its first zero-waste, carbon-neutral Olympics sponsorship. The beverage giant hopes to take sustainable event planning to a new level with drink bottles made from 30 percent plant-based materials, delivered by hybrid cars and electric carts to cafés decked out in furniture that’s made from pine-beetle-salvaged wood.
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What do Nike, REI, the Vancouver Olympics, and the Washington state government have in common? They’ve all promised to eliminate their impact on the climate by going “carbon–neutral.” REI aims to have zero output of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide by the year 2020. But since REI set the zero–impact goal, its emissions have been heading rapidly in the opposite direction.
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It is notoriously difficult to move a muscle without creating a carbon penalty, and mitigating this can be a full-time obsession (as evidenced by No Impact Man, noimpactproject.org). As if our per capita carbon footprint wasn’t big enough at 9.7 tonnes each every year (think of it as six hot-air balloons full of CO2) this winter’s cold weather could cause it to swell. In the absence of any meaningful low-carbon power generation system, we retreat to burning huge quantities of coal to fulfil increased power demand. Coal use explains why Australians weigh in with a thunderous annual output of 20.5 tonnes of CO2 per person.
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Participation in Airport Carbon Accreditation continues to grow. The institutionally endorsed? programme independently assesses and recognises airports’ efforts to manage and reduce their CO2 emissions and certifies airports at 4 different levels of accreditation (Mapping, Reduction, Optimisation and Neutrality). In the past two months, Airport Carbon Accredited status has been awarded to seven more airports across Europe:
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