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12 May 2008

CARBON COUNTDOWN
"If Bush and Blair aren't going to make it happen from the top down, citizens can and will make it happen from the ground up."

Whether you are blogging your experience of appropriate living, busy getting on with the alternative energy DIY or just concerned about the future of our planet for our children and grandchildren - welcome to Carbon Countdown.

Check on the newest postings sharing our practical experience of how best to live well while reducing our carbon emissions.
Fuel from fat
26.02.2007 Biodiesel@MIT is a group of MIT students, faculty, and staff whose goal is to install a biodiesel processor on the MIT campus as part of the MIT Energy Initiative. The processor would convert waste vegetable oil from campus dining facilities into biodiesel to be mixed with regular diesel fuel and used in the institute's diesel-powered Tech Shuttles.
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Image: Fuel from fat © Agricultural Research Service / U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
25.02.2007 When companies sell the public carbon offsets, carbon savings expected to be made in the future are counted as savings made in the present. This is known as ‘future value accounting’ and is the same technique used by Enron to inflate its profits with such disastrous consequences.
Image: Con trails from aircraft

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Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Pollution]
Does planting trees make you carbon neutral?
24.02.2007 Does offsetting your carbon sins have any benefit other than to salve a guilty conscience? asks Mark Lynas.
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Image: Does planting trees make you carbon neutral? © People & the Planet
23.02.2007 President Bush’s Texas ranch is off-grid and eco-friendly. Does he know something we don’t? Is he prepared while the rest of us are doomed?
Image: Bush in the bush

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23.02.2007 Greens need to fly to help save the planet, but cannot all do so without destroying the planet. Is there an answer? Several, actually.
Image: Airplane in flight

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22.02.2007 Scottish ministers have announced funding for what has been described as the world's biggest wave energy farm.
Image: The Pelamis wave device on tow

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Your days are numbered, bulb
22.02.2007 Australia has announced plans to ban traditional light bulbs in a move Prime Minister John Howard called a practical step toward slowing climate change. Incandescent filament lightbulbs will be phased out by 2010 in favour of the more fuel-efficent compact fluorescent bulbs.
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Related topics/regions: [Australia] [Climate change] [Pollution]
Image: Your days are numbered, bulb © Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland
21.02.2007 from The Man in Seat Sixty-One:
Award-winning website dedicated to helping you find and book alternative ways to travel: trains and ships.
Image: Eurostar seat 61

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Make bags of 'green' money
21.02.2007 from Saving Without A Budget blog:
There’s one of two ways for you to invest your hard earned money 'greenly'.
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Image: Make bags of 'green' money
20.02.2007 from Green Options blog:
Animation works wonders at getting messages across, and cartoons are increasingly popping up in spreading the word about environmental issues.
Image: SustainLane Unsustainables

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20.02.2007 from MSNBC:
Al Gore has announced plans for a 24-hour concert series on all seven continents to highlight the dangers of global warming. See also OneWorld's Recommended Events.
Image: Al Gore, rock promoter

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We can lick global warming
19.02.2007 from Gristmill:
Global warming is happening, but there's nothing we can do about it. Might as well just batten down the hatches and hope for the best. Right? Wrong, says David Roberts.
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Image: We can lick global warming © SaveOurEnvironment.org
19.02.2007 from about my planet:
Combined heat and power - also known as 'cogeneration' and 'micro CHP' - is now becoming a viable way to both heat and power your home.
Image: CHP unit

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Adapting to a post-oil world
18.02.2007 from truthout:
A great primer with plenty of practical, essential details. It will help those who have not yet fully considered the future they will inhabit.
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Image: Adapting to a post-oil world © Global Witness
17.02.2007 from Celsias:
Do you struggle over the decision to ’shop local’ or ’support the poor in distant lands’?
Image: Planet and food miles

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Energy saving light bulbs, on and off
16.02.2007 from Treehugger:
The new cold cathode bulbs offer several big advantages.
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Image: Energy saving light bulbs, on and off © Peter Armstrong
16.02.2007 from ecolocal:
Edinburgh's new green building code shows how construction in the UK is going to look over the next few years.
Image: ecolocal logo

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15.02.2007 from Green Options:
A new technology that could make large-scale geothermal energy widely available. It could supply all US electricity demand.
Image: The inside of our planet is very hot

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Wasted energy!
15.02.2007 from Treehugger:
Wave power deserves a bigger share of the spotlight: a Google Talk (video) by Max Carcas of Ocean Power Delivery on a neglected resource.
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Image: Wasted energy! © Greenpeace UK
Taxing carbon pollution a solution
14.02.2007 from timesunion:
'The British Guardian newspaper was almost gloating about the bad news in the IPCC climate report... Fortunately, there is a solution, one that is grippingly unoriginal, requires no special knowledge of economics and is easy for any country to implement.'
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Image: Taxing carbon pollution a solution

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