By Hans Nilsson / Published on Mon, 2007-07-09 07:00
The Live Earth event last Saturday was quite amazing in its promotion of energy efficiency and the slogan "Answer the Call" underpinned with information about simple things to do. It is well worth the time to visit their website, which contains several useful pieces of information and tools, including a rather demanding pledge to sign:
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By Hans Nilsson / Published on Fri, 2006-12-15 06:51
The Carbon Saving Trust in the UK has published an image of the UK Carbon Foot Print. The surprise seems to have been that recreation and leisure have such a high score.
As they say, knowing the footprint is the first step towards change, and they also publish a substantial set of advice to "Carbon Management", much of it targeted at business activities and their wish to work with the risk-profile and the brand.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Sun, 2006-11-12 22:45
The land, air and water that a city or nation needs to produce all of its resources and to dispose of all its waste. It is a way to determine if the lifestyle of a community is sustainable. It shows if a city or nation is utilizing more or less than its fair sustainable share of the world's resources.
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By Hans Nilsson / Published on Fri, 2006-10-20 05:05
Personal responsibility for carbon emissions.
In the UK, there are several projects that exercise the idea of personalised carbon emission rights. One of them has extensive information and testing material to check how and if people would be able to handle such a responsibility and to trade with the rights.
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce - commonly known as the RSA - has, in a poll, found that
nearly 80% of the people think they could reduce the carbon emissions given such a role on the market! So now there is set up an
experimental site for virtual trading and to take part in the RSA "5 a year" carbon challenge – to try to achieve an annual carbon usage or 5 tonnes of carbon or less.
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By Hans Nilsson / Published on Tue, 2006-04-04 05:38
From a Carbondioxide point of view? You can easily test what your way of living (not the least travelling) means in terms of CO2 emissions and then (if your conscience demands it) by offsets. For some of us, this could mean the difference between getting into the newspaper or not, though admittedly it is worse if you fly your own jet!
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Sun, 2006-02-12 08:11
Today, land is used for living, working, recreation and most importantly, food production. A relatively new use is growing biomass for energy use, which requires vast areas of land because of the diffuse nature of sunlight, and the low efficiency of plants capturing it. There is a direct competition for agricultural land between energy and food. Land requirements for both uses depend on consumption and production per square meter, 2 parameters which vary widely.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Fri, 2005-07-22 14:34
With a population of 6 billion, earth has about 2 hectares of land available per person. For an expected population of 9 billion, this figure will be reduced to less than 1.5. Ecological footprinting converts a person's current impacts through nourishment, shelter, transport and the acquisition of goods & services to a single indicator, i.e. ecological footprint.
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