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Carbonfund.org Partner Virgin America Named Official Airline of Governors’ Global Climate Summit

Virgin America is the Official Domestic Airline of the Governors’ Second Annual Climate Summit in Los Angeles from Sept. 30-Oct. 2.  Also, Virgin America released its first annual Climate Report today describing their unique sustainability efforts and emissions data for 2008.  When Virgin America launched in 2007 they took great care to incorporate sustainability into [...]

Google Helps Households Reduce What They Can

Google announced yesterday that they have partnered with eight utilities in the United States, Canada and India to provide individuals with detailed information about their home electricity consumption. Google’s PowerMeter is a software tool that enables households to track and monitor their energy consumption from their computers and is intended to help customers reduce energy [...]

Administration Announcing New Auto Emissions Standards

The Obama Administration is prepared to announce today more stringent auto emissions standards. This announcement, as reported by Steven Mufson of the Washington Post and others, is slated to establish the first nationwide regulation for greenhouse gases and raise vehicle fuel efficiency targets to 35.5 miles per gallon (MPG) by the year 2016.
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Global Warming to Cost Cali. Big

The effects of global warming are expected to cost California up to $15 billion annually by 2050. In a summary of cost analysis presented to Gov. Schwarzenegger’s climate advisers, the impacts of sea level rise, wildfires and other events associated with global warming are expressed as a dollar amount. If losses are up to $15 [...]