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PC Magazine March 17, 2008 Isabelle Groc |
Giving Back to the Friendly Skies Carbon offsets can be a good way to reduce your traveling carbon footprint, but be wary of green scams.  |
Fast Company November 1, 2007 David Roberts |
Are Carbon Offsets a Cop-Out? Fighting climate change may have become a crusade -- but it's no sin to do the easiest thing first. Carbon dioxide is fungible, like money -- not personal, like sin.  |
Entrepreneur July 2007 Julie Moline |
Clean Up How to offset travel's toxic toll on the environment.  |
CFO January 1, 2008 John Goff |
Carbon Trading The carbon offset market is set to take off. But at this point, the future worth of a carbon commodity is tough to call. Could U.S. businesses end up buying a lot of hot air?  |
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Ben Elgin |
Another Inconvenient Truth Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver.  |
Scientific American July 24, 2006 Gunjan Sinha |
Soccer Goes Green A consortium including FIFA, the international soccer federation, and the German football association donated 1.2 million euros to make this year's play-off the first sporting event to offset its carbon dioxide emissions by investing in three renewable energy projects.  |
BusinessWeek June 2, 2011 Ben Elgin |
Chevy's Carbon Plan: Less Than Meets the Eye The carmaker will buy carbon offsets if you buy a Chevy. But the carbon reductions may likely be less than promised.  |
Fast Company February 1, 2008 |
Carbon Craze Letters to the editor: Are Carbon Offsets a Cop-out?... Should a wealthy "environmentalist" (insert the name of a famous person from show business, politics, or business) feel less guilty...  |
Inc. November 2007 Alison Stein Wellner |
Nothing But Green Skies Enterprise Rent-A-Car is one of the nation's top family-owned businesses, a $12 billion behemoth that dominates its industry. But CEO Andy Taylor feared it all could vanish in a puff of CO 2. It was time to get greener. And quick.  |
Scientific American June 2009 Madhusree Mukerjee |
Is a Popular Carbon-Offset Method Just a Lot of Hot Air? A popular carbon-offset scheme may do little to cut emissions.  |
CIO September 1, 2001 Simone Kaplan |
Leave a Smaller Footprint To publicize the importance of reducing emissions of ozone-depleting gases, the World Resources Institute has launched www.safeclimate.net, a website devoted to helping individuals and organizations calculate and reduce their output of carbon dioxide...  |
The Motley Fool September 13, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Google Makes Giant Strides The search giant has stepped up its commitment to a greener footprint.  |
Real Travel Adventures March 2005 Andreas Kristinus |
Travelers Turn On to Offsetting their Climate Change Impacts Promoting `sustainable travel', a nonprofit brought together a service to offset climate impacts from travel and a travel agency that knows how to use it.  |
Food Processing October 2008 Kate Bertrand Connolly |
Conquering the Carbon Footprint Operating costs and the environment have processors scrambling to reduce carbon emissions.  |
Inc. December 2008 Tess Taylor |
Going Carbon Neutral These companies all fund projects certified by the Voluntary Carbon Standard or the Gold Standard.  |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Ben Elgin |
A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade How companies may be rewarded under the cap-and-trade system for green projects they already had in the works.  |
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher |
Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.  |
Bank Technology News November 2006 Richard Muirhead |
Gaining Steam to Go Green Reducing a financial institution's carbon footprint isn't just the environmentally correct thing to do, it's a way to conserve energy and save money by operating more efficient facilities and data centers.  |
Wired May 19, 2008 Spencer Reiss |
Carbon Credits Were a Great Idea, But the Benefits Are Illusory Carbon offsets -- and emissions-trading schemes, their industrial-scale siblings -- are the environmental version of subprime mortgages.  |
Food Processing August 2010 Beau Griffey |
Power Lunch: How the American Power Act May Affect You A cap-and-trade marketplace creates burdens, solutions and opportunities.  |
Chemistry World May 23, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
Carbon Trust cuts are 'small beer' The government-funded body charged with reducing the carbon footprint of UK businesses 'can surely do a lot better', according to a government report.  |
Popular Mechanics April 20, 2009 Tyghe Trimble |
The Footprint of Air Pressure: CO 2 Comparison Tata Motors announced plans to build an super-green air-powered car. But is using the grid to compress air any more efficient than a hybrid's gas-electric power train or a regular combustible engines? Here are the calculations.  |
Inc. May 2009 Shivani Vora |
Business Travel: Green Car Rental How to go green when renting a car.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2014 Watkins & Goeppner |
Carbon Credits Offsetting CO2 emissions may provide a competitive edge for properties.  |
Investment Advisor August 2009 Robert F. Keane |
The Green Advisor: Cleaner Air and Cash Many critics have failed to look at the carbon cap and trade market that is already functioning in this country on a voluntary basis.  |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2007 Ben Elgin |
How "Green" Is That Water? A close look at one company's claims of "carbon neutrality" points to problems for the industry.  |
Food Processing January 2007 Mike Pehanich |
Flower Power, Sunshine and Wind First solar energy, then biodiesel fuel and now wind power. Kettle Foods Inc., Salem, Ore., has made alternative energy sources a company commitment.  |
PC Magazine March 6, 2007 Dan Costa |
Buy A Dell PC, Plant A Tree Today, you can send any Dell PC back to the company for recycling without paying a penny. If you buy a new Dell, the company actually sends someone to pick up your old PC.  |
BusinessWeek May 28, 2009 Mark Scott |
Banks: Gearing Up for Carbon Trading While the federal plan to trade carbon emission credits are a ways off, banks already are preparing for what they see as a new profit.  |
Chemistry World December 12, 2012 Yan Yan |
China's emissions may peak as soon as 2025 New research suggests that China's carbon emissions could peak as soon as 2025. But not everyone is convinced by these projections.  |
Fast Company April 2009 Dan Macsai |
Successful Experiments in Customer Restraint Three cases of bundling up customer's wants and shoulds.  |
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Faith-Based Carbon Credit Systems Market-based approaches to help stem carbon releases, and in turn climate change, could prove difficult to marshal and enforce. Carbon credits and trade incentives are a small piece in a larger issue.  |
BusinessWeek December 9, 2009 Elgin & Einhorn |
China: Climate Change or Hot Air? The mainland earns billions in carbon-offset sales. But by taking credit for projects that would have been built anyway, it may not be playing by the rules.  |
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol.  |
Information Today October 27, 2015 |
Apple Commits to Using Clean Energy Apple created two programs, designed to reduce the carbon footprint of its Chinese manufacturing partners, which will avoid more than 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution until 2020.  |
Chemistry World February 8, 2010 Rebecca Renner |
Coming clean on emissions outsourcing Industrialized countries 'outsource' a large proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with manufacturing the items they consume, according to a new study that, for the first time, details this outsourcing on a global basis.  |
IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 Thomas Duesterberg |
The Competitive Edge -- Cap-and-Trade Would Be a Major Mistake U.S. manufacturers face significant cost disadvantages if current proposals are enacted.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Susan Arterian Chang |
Carbon Commerce The Europeans have demonstrated beyond doubt that the right to emit CO2 is destined to be a major internationally traded asset -- but their experience to date also exemplifies some of the pitfalls the rest of the world faces in establishing such trading systems.  |
Search Engine Watch April 24, 2009 Elisabeth Osmeloski |
Eco-Driven Travel Search Sites that Marketers Haven't Exploited (Yet) Earth Day and the green living movement has mainly become an attempt by marketers to squeeze out every last bit of revenue from a trend. But there are still a few search-driven sites making eco-friendly tourism and sustainable travel a reality.  |
BusinessWeek April 10, 2006 Heather Green |
It's A Little Easier Being Green Consumers and companies are giving alternative energy a boost with "green tags."  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Paul McFedries |
Changing Climate, Changing Language That humans are having a negative effect on the world's climate is almost universally regarded as a fact in scientific circles, but global warming stubbornly remains in the realm of fantasy in some political and business circles.  |
U.S. Banker January 2009 Glen Fest |
Going Off the Grid Thinking has evolved around what it means to be green; by focusing on sustainability instead of just conservation.  |
BusinessWeek October 29, 2007 Ben Elgin |
Little Green Lies The sweet notion that making a company environmentally friendly can be not just cost-effective but profitable is going up in smoke. Meet the man wielding the torch.  |
Wired May 19, 2008 Matt Power |
Don't Buy That New Prius! Test-Drive a Used Car Instead The manufacturing of a new car contributes more carbon to the atmosphere than driving a used one for 100,000 miles.  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Peter Fairley |
Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected  |
Scientific American May 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
The Road to Clean Energy Starts Here Realizing crucial energy technologies will take more than just research and development. The overarching challenge is to make the transition at minimum cost and without economic disruption.  |
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2009 Adam Hadhazy |
How the Manufacturing Sector Can Curtail Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increasing efficiency, which reduces emissions, also improves the bottom line, and so the manufacturing industry has already begun to think creatively about its sizable carbon footprint.  |
CFO April 1, 2007 John Goff |
Cleaning Up Carbon Pressure to curb carbon emissions is mounting. How companies respond will affect much more than their bottom lines.  |
BusinessWeek April 23, 2007 John Carey |
Climate Wars: Episode Two With the skeptics almost silenced, businesses are fighting over how to cut carbon emissions.  |
Chemistry World July 22, 2014 Angeli Mehta |
Australia scraps its carbon tax Climate campaigners say some form of carbon pricing is inevitable if the country is to meet its climate change targets.  |