The world reached a grim milestone recently, with atmospheric concentrations at the historic Mauna Loa observatory hitting the 400 parts per million mark due to ever increasing global carbon emissions.
While this event rightly got the media coverage it deserved, rarely do we stop to appreciate the incredible job land and ocean sinks have played in ensuring this figure isn’t significantly higher.
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How big is your house? Is it big enough? Is there an optimum amount of floor space per person? This post takes a look at average house sizes around the world and asks how much space is enough.
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Electricity emissions are a function of two things: how much electricity is used and how carbon intensive that electricity is. Using data from 60 countries this post explains how our electricity emissions vary around the world.
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We use electricity virtually every minute of every day, yet few of us understand our use of electricity at home.
By answering the simple question ‘how do we use electricity’ this post helps us understand our own electricity use.
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There has been much talk of natural gas as a ‘bridge’ fuel lately, particularly due to its role in cutting US carbon emissions.
From an economic or energy security point of view this might make some sense, but in terms of climate change natural gas is a half measure that risks dangerous procrastination.
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This post offers eleven tips for improving your gas mileage.
The most important are about style and speed, but every little helps.
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Do you know how much electricity your home uses each year?
If you do this post will let you see how you compare to the rest of the world.
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Food miles almost need a health warning.
Tackling them will support local food, but won’t always cut carbon emissions.
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Looking for the ultimate green road road trip? Paraguay is your destination.
That is the finding of our new Shades of Green report comparing electric car’s carbon emissions in twenty of the worlds leading countries.
Driving an electric car in Paraguay results in 60% fewer carbon emissions than the best petrol hybrid, or 75% less than the average American car.
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It is well understood that meat production has a big carbon footprint.
Numerous studies detail the climate impact of livestock, but just how big is it’s impact on a person’s foodprint?
This post compares the carbon footprints of five different American diets and finds that when it comes to foodprints vegan’s lead the way.
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