Posted in Solutions, tagged carbon calculators, carbon footprint, carbon offsets, Cool Climate calculator, Terrapass, Zerofootprint on August 8, 2008 | 21 Comments »
This morning, ClimateBiz reports on a recent survey by a Seattle P-I journalist on carbon calculators. The reporter tried out ten different calculators, and here are the results:
Not surprising. Last year, I did my own exploration of carbon calculators, and came out equally confused. TerraPass had made it into my list of Top 3 Calculators, [...]
Posted in French Culture, tagged carbon footprint, French travel, green, Paris tourism, sustainability on June 29, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Nothing like a two-feet wide shower to get you out quick! Prad and I are discovering the charms of Parisian living in our ‘rue du Bac‘ apartment. Likewise, our kitchen only allows for one person at a time comfortably. This is quite a change from our California sprawl, . . . And made me think [...]
Posted in Green Girl Wannabe, tagged air travel, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, carbon intensity, carbon offsets, CO2, fuel efficient planes, modes of transportation, Skype, Terrapass on June 26, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Starting tomorrow, I will be off to Europe for a two-week visit to my family, followed by a tour of the Tuscan countryside. If I was 100% pure, I would stay home, and use Skype to stay in touch with my loved ones. After all, air travel is one the most CO2 intensive mode of [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged $4 a gallon, carbon footprint, cars, CO2, gas, gas prices, pump prices, US gas prices on June 4, 2008 | 43 Comments »
I know, I know, the American people are suffering. 4$ a gallon, and rising. I should share our nation’s outrage, and feel sorry for my compatriots. At the risk of being perceived, once more, as a cold-hearted human being, I decided to take a look at these numbers – from here and here -
Makes me [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged Attention Environmentalists, carbon footprint, carbon trading, China, climate change, coal plants, environmentalists, Global warming, GMO, green living, hybrid cars, organic, tree planting, Wired, Wired magazine on May 26, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Until today, I resisted the urge to comment on Wired provocative article on Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green. Lynn Miller’s comment on Goeff Livingston’s post about Wired piece, gave me the push I needed.
First, I agree with Lynn. Anything that can draw people into thinking about their carbon footprint, [...]
Posted in Consumer Research, tagged access to water, carbon footprint, climate change, environmental education, Gallup, Global warming, green living, recycling on April 26, 2008 | 11 Comments »
As of late, Gallup has been a great source of important climate related behavioral data. Here is the third survey in the series, this time taking a look at differences between top polluting nations:
These are global numbers. Equally relevant are per capita footprints – latest, 2006 data from Footprint Network:
United States 9.6
China 1.6 (and [...]
Posted in Green Girl Wannabe, Social Networks, tagged carbon footprint, climate change, eco-psychology, Global warming, green living, Green Psychology, Michael Pollan, New York Times, sustainability, SUVs on April 21, 2008 | 24 Comments »
Michael Pollan’s got it all right in ‘Why Bother?‘‘, his long and well worth reading article in today’s New York Times. And puts back the responsibility for climate change right where it belongs. On I, on you, on us. Here is the part that really struck a chord with me:
If you do bother, you will [...]
Posted in Solutions, tagged carbon footprint, climate change, CO2 emissions, environment, Global warming, green office, green working, telecommuting on April 15, 2008 | 14 Comments »
A comment from Meryn Stol resurrected my interest in green working‘, a concept that came up in some of my earlier discussions with my friend Bruno de Beauregard, one of France’s pioneers in the field of online collaborative tools, and now involved with Netcipia, a wiki startup. Green working is a way of living that [...]
Posted in Activism, tagged carbon footprint, consumerism, Earth Day, environment, FTC green guides, Green Marketing, greenwashing, no shopping day on April 14, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Earth Day is approaching, and with it, waves of unease in the blogosphere. Echoing one of my earlier posts, ‘Green Festival or Celebration of Green Consumption?‘, an article in Ad Age this morning, raises the question of ‘Is Earth Day the New Christmas?‘.
Consumerism pervades our entire culture, we know that. And Earth Day is not [...]
Posted in Green Marketing, tagged bottled water, carbon footprint on April 5, 2008 | 21 Comments »
I kind of knew, but did not expect I would get into so much controversy with my recent post about Danone Water. Bottled water still is a hot topic in the environmental blogosphere . . . As evidenced by this fresh email exchange with Meryn Stol, a frequent contributor to the discussions in this blog:
Meryn: [...]
