climate change
climate change
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by James Nash - 2008-08-14
Carbon Offsetting involves paying an organisation to neutralise the climate impact of your own activities, thereby making those activities "carbon neutral" or "climate neutral". Some offset schemes f...
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by Ernie Fitzpatrick - 2008-08-17
learned in playing chickenfoot (dominos) that you don't want to hold the totally blank domino. In the card ame of hearts you don't want to get stuck with the queen of spades. It's like that in life...
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by James Nash - 2008-08-22
The earth is undergoing a terrible bout of global warming with the carbon that is emitted by the burning of fossil fuels to generate electricity and when used in vehicles for transportation purposes....
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by Dilip Dahanukar - 2008-08-27
The Earth is being heated by the Sun every day. Almost 174,000 Terawatts of energy hits the Earth. One Terawatt is equal to one million megawatts! So the Sun is heating the Earth with 174 billion meg...
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by Dilip Dahanukar - 2008-08-29
The UN member countries in a convention held on climate change in Japan, in 1997, agreed to a treaty for controlling the emissions. It was named the 'Kyoto Protocol' from the name of the place where ...
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by James Nash - 2008-08-29
As with any purchase, buyers need to choose their offsets carefully, particularly as the voluntary offset market is largely unregulated. One issue to consider is the offset project type. For example,...
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by James Nash - 2008-08-30
Every Thursday night, like every other householder in our neighborhood, I collect our waste paper, cans, bottles and plastic and put them out on the street outside our house. On Friday morning a loca...
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by James Nash - 2008-08-30
If climate change is primarily the result of burning fossil fuels isn't offsetting with trees simply a distraction? Shouldn't we focus on renewable energy projects that can replace the use of fossil ...
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by James Nash - 2008-08-30
Something that worries many people about offsetting emissions with trees is how can you guarantee that they will last long enough? Trees take time to absorb carbon, extracting it slowly from the atmo...
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by Joan Barton - 2008-09-03
Bird Habitat is an important part of our global ecosystem, not only providing essential habitat for our feathered friends, but also helping filter harmful carbon dioxide from the air, with trees veget...