Curb Your Footprint: Curb Your Appetite
Jeff Garlin weighs in on going green. Image from Simon Spotlight
Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin is on a carbon and calorie loss diet. His new memoir, My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World, released this past week, chronicles his year-long journey to lower both his physical footprint and his carbon footprint. With wisecracks and candid wisdom, he describes facing down his food addiction and the steps he took for the environment. But is the comedian’s two-pronged attack to go lean and gr…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Two Steps Simple to Really Reducing Your Carbon Foodprint: Go Vegetarian + Walk or Bike to the Store
photo: Flavio Ferrrari via flickr.
The idea of trying to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet is almost yesterday’s news in the green community, as is talking about eating locally, minimizing food miles, reducing the amount of meat you eat. But a new report from Brighter Planet breaks the issue down in a very digestible way. While most of its conclusions are in…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Ask Pablo: What Is The Carbon Footprint Of Tofu?
Image Source: Sifu Renka
Dear Pablo: I eat a lot of tofu as part of my vegetarian diet but it seems to me that this may conflict with my concerns for the environment. What is the carbon footprint of tofu?
Tofu is made from soybeans by curdling soy milk much like cheese is made from cow milk. The soybeans require very little, if any, irrigation and the “fix” about 1 pound of nitrogen in the soil per plant because they are legumes. The nitrogen put into the soil by the soybean plants reduces the amount of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer required for the crops, usually corn, that follow in the field’…Read the full story on TreeHugger
By the Numbers: Super Bowl Facts and Figures
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Football fans may have to wait until Sunday to watch the Super Bowl–but for those who just can’t get enough, we’ve compiled a list of the most incredible Super Bowl related facts and figures for you on the heels of the big g…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Faith Leaders Hold No-Fly Climate Summit
Image credit: Faith Climate Connect
From Copenhagen’s gargantuan carbon footprint to Al Gore’s emissions there’s no shortage of people complaining about the carbon emitted by those who want to cut carbon. But many are trying to keep this in check. A group of religious leaders just an interfaith no-fly summit, exactly one month after Copenhagen, to discuss the practical role that faith, and in particular sacred texts, can play fol…Read the full story on TreeHugger
CES 2010 – CEA Offsetting Energy Use of Tradeshow With Renewable Energy from EarthEra
Image via EarthEra
NextEra, the largest provider of wind and solar power, has put together EarthEra, a program that connects companies with consumers. With EarthEra, companies can purchase renewable energy certificates to offset the carbon footprint of their energy consumption. 100% of the money is put into a trust, and that money goes toward building more renewable energy facilities. There’s a triple bonus for businesses when they do this – which CEA has recognized and that’s why…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Tracking The US Housing, Economy, Immigration Carbon Bubble
Intuitively, we might expect that the burst of the US housing bubble, and the steep recession precipitated by it, are paralleled by a recent fall-off in immigration, ending a period of steady growth (as shown in the above figure). However, I’ve seen no direct attention to the impacts of immigration on carbon emissions, either before or after the fall. Specifically, there’s been no mention of the carbon “footprint” of foreign born growing as they achieve the “American Dream:” car ownership, commuting, lots of meat eating, big houses, big TV; the whole nine yards. Read on for a back-of-the-…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Clueless About Carbon? What COP15 Really Stands For
Photo via Earthwatch
Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm is head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch.
We all know the size of the footprints we leave behind. For the record, mine’s a size 8 (42), which is bigger than many I guess, but I’m tall and I need the ballast or I’d fall flat on my face. My carbon footprint is another matter.
In the U.K., the average person emits 10.92 tons of CO2 — you can almost double that…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Copenhagen’s Gargantuan Carbon Footprint? It’s Up in Smoke
Graph from Power & Energy.
OK, it’s a lot of carbon. 41,000 tons of carbon equivalent is estimated to be Copenhagen’s big footprint after the COP-15 two weeks of talks. See that small, insignificant seeming white dot carved into the big black moon? That’s what it would be if we all weren’t in Copenhagen. Yet while 41,000 tons sounds ginormous, and it is, the Danes had long planned to offset an eventual 100,000 tons of carbon, setting aside nearly a million Euros. And how will they do it? Via Bangladeshi brick ovens….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Secret Video of Government Highway Spending Plans Hacked and Exposed
The Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has been secretly determining where the next tranche of infrastructure investment will be spent. They were not going to reveal this until after Copenhagen because of its appalling carbon footprint, but someone hacked into Youtube and found this classif…Read the full story on TreeHugger