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Recent Links Tagged "carbon"

coalSwarm Wiki, from SourceWatch

tags:
coal, globalwarming, carbon, anticoalmovement

This SourceWatch wiki has become information central for advocates of a total moratorium on building new coal-fired electricity plants -- an idea that seems to be gathering adherents every day.

Real Costs

tags:
co2, carbondioxide, carbon, travel, emissions, airplanes, globalwarming

Firefox users may want to check out this plug-in, which inserts emissions data into travel-related websites.

Carbon Neutral web sites/apps

tags:
greenbusiness, cleantech, energy, carbonneutral, carbon, globalwarming, climatechange, internet, business

The host of the "web2.0 show," a popular podcast about emerging web technologies, wonders if the Internet industry can go "carbon neutral." (In general, I've found technologists to be very receptive to greening their business practices. )

Offset Your Carbon Footprint to Reduce Global Warming--BeGreen Now

tags:
cleanpower, climatechange, climate, carbon, carbonfootprint, globalwarming, greenliving, greentips

From Green Mountain Energy -- a large retailer of cleaner electricity -- BeGreen has a lot of information about reducing your carbon "footprint." There's a guide to carbon-neutral gifts, and BeGreen is doing a video contest on MySpace.

WorldChanging Austin: Whole Foods Market + Green Mountain Energy - Carbon

tags:
climatechange, climate, carbon, globalwarming, cleanpower, carbonfootprint

Jon Lebkowsky blogs for WorldChanging, among many other things, and tipped me to this Whole Foods initiative -- for Earth Day, the company is presenting its customers with a whole slate of ideas for reducing one's carbon footprint. Cool.

OnEarth Podcasts -- A Talk with Writer and Global Warming Activist Bill McKibben

tags:
globalwarming, activism, stepitup, mckibben, podcast, climatechange, carbon, NRDC, naturalresourcesdefensecouncil, nptech, nonprofits, net2, socialmedia

McKibben talks with OnEarth about StepItUp 2007, his seat-of-the-pants campaign that's knitting together -- very quickly -- a mass movement of global warming warriors. A really interesting conversation.

A Better Biofuel? -- Whipple 2006 (1207): 5 -- ScienceNOW

tags:
biofuels, carbon, soil, feedstock

An article about important emerging research on how mix grasses produce higher yields than monocultures.

Welcome to the Voluntary Reporting Carbon Management Site

tags:
carbon, agriculture, farming

This site has a tool to estimate the carbon flux from different agricultural practices.

The New Yorker : "High Costs," on the UK Govt's Report on Economics of Global Warming

tags:
carbon, economics, environment, globalwarming, climatechange, climate, science

Authored by Sir Nicholas Stern (former World Bank chief economist; current head of the UK Gov'ts Economic Service), the landmark "Stern Review" concludes that the benefits of strong early action far outweigh the costs of ignoring it. The NYer summarizes.

Environment Unlimited | Climate change | Paying for our sins

tags:
global, warming, carbon, offsets, emissions

Interesting editorial

Seed: State of the Planet

tags:
visualization, globalwarming, poverty, drinkingwater, deforestation, arctic, sprawl, carbon, extinction, hurricanes, fueleconomy

SEED magazine (which is great) uses beautiful visualizations of data to tell a grim story.

The Oil Drum | A Community Discussion about Peak Oil

tags:
peakoil, oil, oilsecurity, carbon, globalwarming, energy, environment, sustainability

"the petroleum economy [is] the fundamental linchpin of our present democratic society [and] cheap oil/energy/gas [is] quietly fading into history. We are here to talk about ideas; we want to bring brain power to bear."