It’s summer and I’ve had air conditioning on the brain -price to run it, high; emissions from it, high; temp in the grocery stores these days, way too low; etc. I was working on minimizing my home usage without melting away when I came across this announcement from my alma mater.
The University of California, […]

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Erik Blachford, CEO of TerraPass, saw my post on carbon offsets and wrote to ask if he could help us better understand the wonderful world of carbon offsets –Of Course!, I replied. Talking to him helped me realize how complex the carbon finance world is AND got me motivated to learn more. The […]

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WorldChanging columnist, Clark Williams-Derry reports here on a recent study from a couple of Carnegie Mellon profs that compares life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with food production against food miles.
Summary of the findings: A dietary shift can be a more effective means of lowering an average household’s food-related environmental footprint than “buying local.” Shifting […]

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Traveling over the past week, I visited the queen of sustainable cities, Portland, Oregon and a prime example of Midwestern disinvestment, Hutchinson, Kansas. Getting there, I spent time in the Houston, Atlanta, Memphis and Kansas City airports and, according to the newly revamped TerraPass air travel carbon emissions calculator, emitted a whopping total of […]

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A story by Mary Landers in today’s paper reports on Savannah’s membership in Cities for Climate Protection, its efforts to determine its carbon footprint and Alderman Larry Stuber’s attendance at the Climate Communities summit in Washington this week.
In some quarters, it’s standard operating procedure to paint those who are serious about addressing climate change as […]

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