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colonos (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
This is an interesting article: Synthesis/Regeneration 45 (Winter 200 Feet in the Cloud; Head in the Sand The Energy Nightmare of Web Server Farms by Jane Anne Morris “The Internet seems clean because its ecological footprint is elsewhere.” One distracted click during my Internet research for this article gave me instant access to 936 photos of Brad Pitt. According [...]
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News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
From the Financial Standard (Nigeria) The rejection of the Freedom of Information bill recently by the House of Representatives is lamentable.
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Nevada Thunder (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
side note: Once again the state of California is leading the way. It'd be nice if this caught on in other parts of the country. With rising oil prices…we may not have much of a choice. By Katherine Salant Washington Post Can a new house reduce your ecological footprint? An ecological footprint is a way of [...]
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
PickupPal partners John Stewart and Eric Dewhirst have joined forces with a U.S.-based organization that works with music artists who are intent on lowering their ecological footprint while on tour.
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Energy wasting, inefficient houses could be easily transformed into cheaper to run, low carbon homes by the end of the next decade, according to a recently issued WWF-UK report. And with homes accounting for 22% of UK ecological footprint and about 30% of its carbon emissions, such action could make a significant difference to achieving UK [...]
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
An Earth Day survey shows people how their "ecological footprints" impacts the planet.
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UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
Minister of Environment and Water H.E Rashid Ahmad bin Fahad has called for a meeting of the Al Basama Al Beeiya (Ecological Footprint) Initiative steering committee on April 17, following a detailed briefing last week on the project. Bin Fahad, who
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
By David Roberts Redefining Progress , which had one of the original and most influential "ecological footprint" calculators, has rebuilt their ecological footprint quiz from the ground up. Check it out , and report your results here. What's your footprint?
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Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning a series of sustainability initiatives. The initiatives are part of the interim recommendations released by the Commission on Sustainability, formed last summer to create a plan for reducing the agency’s ecological footprint by Earth Day 2008. The MTA’s commitments include: - Derive seven percent of its energy needs [...]
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Green Bloggers Digest (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Redefining Progress was one of the first organizations to promote the idea of an "ecological footprint" via a test of sorts that could provide a tangible measurement of one's impact on the globe. The test has now been revised and is a fair bit more sophisticated. In their words: The Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates the area of land and ocean required to support your...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Last year at this time, other prominent environmental bloggers like Alex were saying things like "Earth Day has become a ritual of sympathy for the idea of environmental sanity. Small steps... are of such minor impact (compared to our ecological footprints) that they are essentially meaningless without larger, systemic action as well." Dave said “Yup. The time for "small steps" is long...
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Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Those who are interested in calculating the extent to which they or the society in which they live affect the environment will have an opportunity this week to familiarize themselves with the ecological footprint index, which measures man's influence on the environment. The Environment Ministry and the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership in Tel Aviv will host Dr....
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Indigenous peoples have contributed the least to world greenhouse gas emissions and have the smallest ecological footprints on Earth. Yet they suffer the worst impacts not only of climate change, but also from some of the international mitigation measures being taken, according to organizers of a United Nations University co-hosted meeting today, April 3 in Darwin, Australia.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Biofuel production, renewable energy expansion, other mitigation measures uprooting indigenous peoples in many regionsIndigenous peoples have contributed the least to world greenhouse gas emissions and have the smallest ecological footprints on Earth.
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Indigenous peoples have contributed the least to world greenhouse gas emissions and have the smallest ecological footprints on Earth. Yet they suffer the worst impacts not only of climate change, but also from some of the international mitigation measures being taken, according to organizers of a United Nations University co-hosted meeting April 3 in Darwin, Australia.
