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30.12.2005 It is easy and financially rewarding for individuals to have a positive impact on climate chaos. This section explains how you can help by saving energy and lowering your carbon emissions - and in return you could save money.
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From: centre for alternative energy
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30.12.2005 It's the people, stupid. But who exactly?
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30.12.2005 A detailed insight into the science behind global warming and climate change. The impact of recent climate reports are explained in a no-nonsense language as are many of the common terms and phrases often used by the press and politicians alike.
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29.12.2005 Princeton's Robert Socolow has created a very useful concept he calls "stabilization wedges" to illustrate the idea that we need a combination of approaches to climate change.

With stabilization wedges, a multitude of projects, from efficiency to de-carbonization to sequestration and more, combine to reduce overall carbon emissions, a task that at times can seem impossible. Individually, the wedges are difficult but achievable. As Scolow is quoted by the Economist, this approach "decomposes a heroic challenge (eliminating the emissions in the stabilisation triangle) into a limited set of merely monumental tasks."

Check out his very graphic animation explaining the concept - and showing that smart ways of living at home can produce a saving of a billion tonnes of CO2 over the vital next 50 years.

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