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Tracking purchases of CFLs nationwide

Posted in Climate change, Co2 Emissions, Environment Initatives, Environmental News, Environmental Statistics on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Aimed to  build awareness and increase usage of Compact Fluorescent Bulbs (CFLs) private organizations ahve launched an  interactive tool (18seconds.org) to track purchases of CFLs nationwide.The states and cities are being ranked.The initiative is very effective one as any body can find out how much beneficial it is to switch over. Source:http://green.yahoo.com/

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“How much C02 do we each breathe out?”

Posted in Co2 Emissions, Environment, Environmental Statistics on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Dr Nick Riley calculated it like this:
From spirometry measurements (National Lung Health Education Programme), assuming that about 450ml/min of CO2 are expired per person per minute – this means the net CO2 respired (CO2 produced by respiration) is around 400ml/min
1g of CO2 has a volume of 556ml. Therefore 400ml has weight of 0.72g. Therefore in [...]

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Top 100 Global Companies as per their Climate Change Strategies

Posted in Climate change, Environment, Environment Initatives, Environmental Actions, Environmental Facts, Environmental Issues, Environmental News, Environmental Statistics on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ceres  a national network of investors and environmental activists is interaction with  companies and investors  in addressing sustainability challenges.The ranking of companies which was done for the first time considering the increasing financial risks, opportunities from climate change, GHG emission regulations, direct physical impacts and demand for environmental-friendly technologies.The report contains profiles of 76 U.S.  and 24 non-U.S. companies in [...]

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Michigan’s Economy: Can Clean Energy Revitalize?

Posted in Environment, Environmental Issues, Environmental Statistics, Global warming on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A recent study by Environment Michigan indicated that a strong statewide commitment to renewable energy and energy efficiency will help reviving revitalize Michigan’s economy.’New Energy Future’ based on energy efficiency and home-grown renewable energy resources by adopting a renewable energy standard of 25 percent by 2025 will have few out of several advantages through 2020 [...]

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Chemical Release Data:Announced

Posted in Announcements, Environment, Environment Initatives, Environmental Actions, Environmental Issues, Environmental Statistics on March 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This year’s EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data is made available now.This data indicates the progress made in reductio of releases of several chemicals of special concern like between 2004 and 2005 dioxin releases decreased by 23 percent and mercury releases fell by nine percent. Petroleum refining releases dropped 10 percent transportation equipment registered a six [...]

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