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Recently, the travel agency Responsible Travel stopped providing their customers with the opportunity to offset their travel and apparently hasn’t replaced their offering with anything to help individuals reduce their travel footprint. Responsible Travel had offered their customers the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions since 2002. The general argument for the company so far [...]

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The United Nation’s State of the World Population 2009 has revealed that women have, on average, a smaller carbon footprint than men.
The smaller carbon footprint of women is due to a variety of reasons. For example, it seems women are more likely than men to take proactive steps to reduce their carbon footprint such as [...]

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The US auto market should have two electric cars to choose from in the near future – the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt. These vehicles could start the revolution towards zero direct emission cars that are more efficient and less harmful to the environment. But questions are starting to mount over how far these [...]

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A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience states that global CO2 emissions have risen 29% since 2000 and 41% since 1990. Moreover, in spite of the global economic downturn, emissions still rose 2% globally in 2008, the most recent year of record.
The increase in emissions is attributable to many factors, but most notably [...]

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The effects of global warming will be far reaching and pervasive. But what does that really mean? Well, you can’t really explain it in one blog post, but you can give a great example that will make you squirm: a warmer world means more pests.
An AP article offers its insights on some of the bugs [...]

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Businesses want global warming solutions. Here at Carbonfund.org, we see that first hand every day with businesses from all over the nation coming to us to find new ways to reduce and offset their carbon footprint. That is why Carbonfund.org was pleased to learn about a new, broad based initiative that launched today – American [...]

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A survey of some of the nation’s top economists has revealed that nearly all of them favor taking action to fight global warming. Specifically, economists agree that global warming threatens the American economy and that cap-and-trade legislation will spur investment and be good for the economy.
Of the 144 economists surveyed by New York University of [...]

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I was looking through the news today and I noticed an interesting story about how a group of people in New Orleans are suing oil and gas companies because of the role global warming played in Hurricane Katrina.
The WSJ summed it all up pretty well (read the whole article for more, obviously):
The suit was brought [...]

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The Maldives government ministers have scheduled a Cabinet meeting at the bottom of the ocean. In an attempt to raise awareness of the acute threat to the low lying country that global warming induced sea level rise poses, the Cabinet meeting will be held 20 feet underwater.
The ministers will wear scuba gear for the gathering [...]

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Apple announced that it is leaving the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its stance on global warming. The Chamber has been a source of global warming denial and has seen great backlash recently from members who consider its views to be ‘extreme.’
Apple is the fourth member of the Chamber to leave in recent months. Others [...]

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