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Tag: carbon emissions
How Much Waste Can One Million Clean Cookstoves Prevent? [Video]
I’ve been writing about clean cookstoves for years: these simple pieces of technology are wonders of sustainability. They address dangers to human health posed by open-fire cooking; they also free [ … ]
New Jersey Digs Into Its Biomass Waste; What It Finds Isn’t Pretty
Rutgers University finds that the Garden State tosses over 4 million tons of biomass that it could recycle into energy, heat, and/or transportation fuel.
The Waste Biz: Would Your Wear “Wool” Made From Slaughterhouse Waste?
Is fake wool made from slaughterhouse wastes like bones and ligaments too creepy for most people? Or would they get past it?
Sustainable Construction: Building A Greener 2015
Builders and building owners are considering the environment as they plan new developments. Here are some sustainable construction trends we’ll see in 2015
2013 Marked the Thirty-Seventh Consecutive Year of Above-Average Global Temperatures
By Janet Larsen Last year was the thirty-seventh consecutive year of above-normal global temperature. According to data from NASA, the global temperature in 2013 averaged 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit (14.6 degrees [ … ]
Fossil Fuel Use Pushes Carbon Dioxide Emissions into Dangerous Territory
Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have grown exponentially. Despite wide agreement by governments on the need to limit emissions, the rate of increase ratcheted up from less than 1 percent each year in the 1990s to almost 3 percent annually in the first decade of this century.
Make Smart Green Choices with these Fifteen Smartphone Apps
Looking for the information you need to make smarter green choices? These mobile apps can help.
CarbonDiem: a New App for Tracking Transportation Emissions
An inside look at CarbonDiem, a smartphone app that tracks and analyzes the carbon emissions created by your transportation choices.
Five Organizations Bringing Clean Cooking Technologies to the Developing World
Cooking’s a killer activity in the developing world: millions die from smoke inhalation, and forests are stripped bare as billions gather wood for their stoves (or for making charcoal for cooking). Take a look at five organizations working to address these multiple challenges.
Meat Consumption in China Now Double That in the United States
More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China, and the country’s 1.35 billion people are hungry for more. In 1978, China’s meat consumption of 8 million tons was one third the U.S. consumption of 24 million tons. But by 1992, China had overtaken the United States as the world’s leading meat consumer—-and it has not looked back since.
The Wonderbag: Low-Carbon Slow Cooking
The Wonderbag cuts fuels demands of cooking by using thermal mass to trap heat… and cook food without continued exposure to a flame.
2011: A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to Come
2011 was one of the hottest, wettest, and most dangerous years on record in terms of weather… and may serve as a sign of the “new normal” we’re facing as the climate changes.