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Entrepreneur
July 2007
Julie Moline |
Clean Up How to offset travel's toxic toll on the environment.   |
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. |
Inc.
December 2008
Tess Taylor |
Going Carbon Neutral These companies all fund projects certified by the Voluntary Carbon Standard or the Gold Standard. |
Outside
April 2007
Joe Lindsey |
Where Do You Get Offset? Carbon offsets are reductions in one place that cancel out emissions in another. But are you sure your offset retailer is selling a legitimate product? Are you using offsetting as a license for indulgence. Take our free self-audit. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
January 16, 2012
Yan Yan |
China mulls tax on carbon emissions Following more encouraging sounds from the Chinese government at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, on reducing carbon emissions a proposal to levy a carbon tax is moving up the policy agenda. |
BusinessWeek
March 26, 2007
Ben Elgin |
Another Inconvenient Truth Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
Food Processing
June 2009 |
MRO Q&A: What Makes Up a Food Processing Plant's Carbon Footprint? How can steam used in facilities help reduce the carbon footprint? |
Chemistry World
May 26, 2009
Hayley Birch |
A concrete solution to climate change? A better understanding of how carbon dioxide is absorbed by concrete could help scientists accelerate absorption processes and offset a greater proportion of the emissions from cement production |
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... |
Bank Technology News
February 2011
John Adams |
Nomura Measures Emissions in EMEA International regulations regarding carbon emissions have become increasingly complex, and financial institution Nomura has hired GreenStone Carbon Management to help it manage its energy use in the Europe, the Middle East and African regions. |
Real Travel Adventures
April 2005
Andreas Kristinus |
I Care for myclimate Sustainable Travel International presents myclimate and describes how myclimate programs aim to protect the environment. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 12, 2004
Kathleen Kerwin |
CO2: The Debate Heats Up Is carbon dioxide an air pollutant? That will be the key issue in any legal challenge by auto makers to California's proposed rules to reduce carbon dioxide in auto exhaust. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
December 12, 2008
Melinda Wenner |
U.N. Puts Greenhouse-Free Clean Coal on the Back Burner U.N. plans to sign a new international climate treaty next year, and in negotiating recommendations delegates found common ground in many areas. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2008
Zoe Van Schyndel |
Turn Smog Into Money This new exchange-traded investment lets you profit from carbon credits. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Megan Sever |
Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
September 16, 2013
Ned Stafford |
Battle over carbon tax looms As newly elected Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott prepares to be sworn into office this week, opponents of his plan to abolish the so-called carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions are preparing for political battle. |
CFO
June 1, 2009
Vincent Ryan |
Green Counters Sophisticated tools for carbon-emissions accounting are coming to market. But are U.S. companies ready for them? |
Fast Company
June 1, 2007
Daniel C. Esty |
Final Word The Supreme Court weighs in on global warming. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Sandra Upson |
Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water. |
IndustryWeek
May 1, 2008
Brad Kenney |
The 'What, Why, How and When' of Carbon Footprinting How big is your carbon footprint, and how big a commitment will it take to find out? Learn what the green movement will mean for manufacturers. |
Inc.
May 2009
Shivani Vora |
Business Travel: Green Car Rental How to go green when renting a car. |
Fast Company
December 1, 2007
David Roberts |
Carbon Copy Disclose your greenhouse-gas emissions? Sounds crazy. Why Wal-Mart and P&G are doing it - and you should too. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2007
Ben Elgin |
The Fuzzy Math of Eco-Accolades Plaudits for lower emissions don't mean they've been cut. |
InternetNews
July 23, 2007
David Needle |
What's the Carbon Footprint of a Banner Ad? Digital ad publishers are hardly free of environmental responsibility... Web 'lock-up' ads.... |
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. |
Wired
May 19, 2008 |
Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green It's high time for green causes to unite around the urgent need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. |
Chemistry World
October 9, 2012
Paul Fennell |
Carbon capture Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon by Peter Cook, is an excellent introduction to many topics in the field of climate change, with a particular focus on carbon capture and storage technologies. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Soaking up Carbon Researchers recently announced that they had created metal-based sponges that have exceptionally high capacity for storing carbon dioxide. This nanotechnology is one of many new solutions in the search to find a fix for storing human-emitted carbon-based greenhouse gases. |
