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Jan
22

Drinking orange juice? Better buy some carbon offsets

Who even thinks about the carbon footprint of a carton of orange juice? PepsiCo does, apparently, and the footprint is
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Jan
21

Group to Obama: regulate carbon, aim for 200-mpg cars

On his first full day as president of the US, Barack Obama is receiving some climate change advice from the
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Jan
20

Summit: Climate change, energy needs trump economy

Attendees at the World Future Energy Summit 2009 now taking place in Abu Dhabi are hearing good news along with
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Jan
15

Cheers and jeers for UK transport plans

As environmental groups decry today’s OK for a third runway at Heathrow airport, others are cheering accompanying decisions — including
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Jan
15

Study: emerging economies more eager to act on global warming

We’ve all heard plenty about how people in developing countries are eager to catch up to the developed-nation lifestyle:
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Jan
15

Online gaming could cut world energy consumption

Now here’s a novel energy-saving idea that just might work brilliantly: making efficiency improvements the object of a massive
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Jan
13

Stanford starts new, $100 million energy institute

Stanford University announced this week that it’s establishing a new institute to focus solely on energy issues. The Precourt
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Jan
12

Next hot market: Google search carbon offsets?

While news stories abound about IT’s growing environmental footprint, geeks everywhere are abuzz today about a Google-centered eco-controversy. The
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Jan
06

2008 meets 2009: A look back ... and forward

Too many Top-This-or-That-of-2008-type stories are published during the end-of-the-year holidays: who has time to read them all? That’s why,
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Jan
06

Global warming = cure for global warming?

Quick, you have five seconds to answer: Melting ice caps and icebergs … bad or good? We’ve been hearing the
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