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So, I’d been hearing about Carbon Offsetting for a while now, and it piqued my interest. If you’re not familiar with the idea, a carbon offset is a fee you can pay to offset the carbon emissions from some activity of your choice. The idea is that the fee you pay goes towards environmental projects and you pay enough to ...
On September 23rd this year we mark an unfortunate milestone: As of today, humanity will have consumed all the new resources the planet will produce this year, according to Global Footprint Network calculations. For the rest of 2008, we will be in the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, drawing down our resource stocks – in essence, borrowing from the future.
Cities are no longer waiting for their national governments to take the lead in reducing air pollution. They’re taking matters into their own hands.
Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley announced a plan in September to reduce heat-trapping gases to three-fourths of 1990 levels ...