Company Creates Win-Win by Repairing Good Clothing Destined For Landfills
Instead of perfectly good brand-name apparel ending up in landfills because of broken zippers, this company is renewing them for you and the planet.
Global Warming
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Amazon Forest More Resilient to Climate Change Than Feared
The Amazon rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts as an airborne fertilizer, a study showed on Wednesday.
Biggest Energy Companies in U.S. call for Caps on Carbon Emissions
Check out this lead paragraph in the online Grist magazine for April 6: Tuesday saw a tectonic shift in the climate-change debate during an all-day Senate conference on global-warming policy.
Microsoft Pledges to Become Carbon Neutral by July 1
Weeks after coming under fire for using excessive energy for cloud computing, Microsoft announced it will become carbon neutral across all of its operations starting July 1.
Top 10 Ways You Can Stop Climate Change
Though you might feel like your lifestyle is insignificant compared to things like oil extraction or vehicle emissions, the choices we make in our day-to-day life play a major role in slowing climate change. Here's a list of 10 ways you can join in the fight to reduce our carbon footprint.
Two Monolith Machines Suck Carbon Out of the Air in California
Peter Eisenberger, a distinguished professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University, has build two machines in Menlo Park, Calif., that pull carbon dioxide out of the air, like a catalytic converter for your car, but giant-sized. The challenging part was figuring out what to do with the CO2 once it was captured. But he thinks he's found the perfect solution making fuel.
China to Spend $27 Billion on Emission Cuts, Renewables
China's central government plans to spend $27 billion (170 billion yuan) this year to promote energy conservation, emission reductions and renewable energy, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement last week.
Postal Service Reduces Energy Use by 26%
Since 2003, the United States Postal Service has reduced its energy use by 26 percent. Energy efficiency improvements at the USPS's 33,000 buildings have saved enough energy to meet the power needs of 90,000 households for a year. In 2011, alone, the USPS saved $22 million with its 1 trillion BTU reduction in energy use.
Rainforests May be More Resilient to Global Warming
The world's tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass, or plant material, this century due to the effects of global warming than previously thought, scientists said in a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday.
Saving The Earth With Help From Above
The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved the funding to launch a copy of its lost Cryosat Satellite to give us an accurate global picture of the climate’s affect on Earth’s ever-changing ice sheets.
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