Single use plastic carrier bags are the scourge of the environment. Not only do they create carbon emissions in their manufacture, but they can cause harm to wildlife and sea creatures and take a long time to decompose in increasingly-scarce landfill sites.
British supermarkets have realized that dealing with the problem is good for their costs and public image as well as the environment.
In 2008, seven supermarkets made a voluntary agreement to reduce the number of plastic bags given out by half, compared to the figures for the number of bags given out in 2006.
BMW has announced that it will quit Formula 1 at the end of the 2009 season. Formula 1 isn’t exactly climate-change friendly and BMW follows Honda, with its Earthdreams campaign, in leaving the sport.
The company has blamed a poor run of results for its decision and has decided to spend its money on environmental campaigns rather than F1 racing.
A new report from the Carbon Trust claims that deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are required to avoid catastrophic climate change.
At current global economic growth rates, it estimates that greenhouse gas emiisions could rise from 433 parts per million carbon dioxide equivalents concentration in the atmosphere in 2006 to an estimated 1000 parts per million carbon dioxide equivalents (ppmCO2e) in 2100.
To avoid the worst effects of global warming, the Carbon Trust calculates that annual global greenhouse gas emissions should remain below 550 ppmCO2e.But today’s investment and business decisions aren’t likely to put us on to the path of a low-carbon economy.
Sometimes the problems of global warming and climate change seem too big for local action. Learn how to contribute to the fight against climate change from your backyard.
With the problems of global warming, the world is going green. With Earth Day, Earth Hour and international emphasis on the importance of saving the environment, it is the world is going green.
But beyond planting trees and recycling to help avert the ill effects of global warming, there is a wealth of career opportunities in the various green industries. If you’d like to position yourself along a sustainable and lucrative career path, look towards a green career. Here’s why:
With the economic meltdown, people are more focused on survival and are likely to be least concerned with reducing global warming. But according to organizations and researchers advocating environmental safety, green prosperity is all about economic recovery centered on nature preservation. How does green prosperity work?
The Political Economy Research Institute or PERI has recently released a report on the various clean energy policies that can potentially be effective poverty alleviation measure. The report states that the ultimate beneficiaries of investments in clean energy sources are the American people.
The Economy, Global Warming and Unclean Energy Sources
The recent economic meltdown has left millions of Americans homeless and thousands fearing losing their jobs; many already have.
As the world struggles to dig itself out of recession, the green industry appears as a beacon of hope. In post-modern industrial world where the threats of global warming and climate change have been taken for granted, a digital world that seeks to be more earth-friendly is emerging. But irony or not, this seems to be the case.
Gavoitas can teach us a lot about how to deal with global warming. Located in Columbia’s Los Llanos region, it’s a village with about 150 residents. It was founded in the late sixties by Paolo Lugari together with friends from Bogota’s universities.
The land in Los Llanos is mainly savannah plans that get a lot of rain. Few people live there due to the poor soil quality. After flying over the area in 1965, Lugari wondered whether people could live there. He staked a claim to 25 000 hectares of land and Gavoitas – named after a local bird – was born.
