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Comprehensive study of energy used during car manufacturing vs. energy used during driving. At first glance, the report looks bad for Priuses, but I suspect this is an oversimplified reading.
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Very cool overview of how Kenyans are using basic digester technology to provide sanitation services and gas for cooking. This has a double benefit for climate — less methane emitted as well as less firewood collected for cooking needs.
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Scary new study showing CO2 levels dramatically accelerating during the period 2000-2004.
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RealClimate is one of the best site’s on the web for technical climate change info. They’ve pulled together a nice resource guide for those who want to learn more.
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This article raises many of the same questions we raised in our coverage of Tesco’s carbon labeling scheme, but in more detail. I wish it got deeper into some answers to those questions, though.
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This will be the next company I start.
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This is an important article that gets at something we’ve said earlier but deserves more play: efficiency improvements (rather than conservation or renewables) are some of the most important tools for fighting climate change.
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The economist continues its coverage of geo-engineering with the latest — a proposal to shift the magnetic fields in the arctic to vent CO2 into the atmosphere. Hmm. How about agreeing to some firm caps before chasing these ideas?