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Resorts and Spas are meant to soothe your wrecked nerves and pump in the right energy of vigor to put one back on their feet once their vacation time is over. How about a 5 Star hotel that gives you all of these privileges in addition to the advantage of reducing your carbon foot print? The Bali Net Zero Hotel Resort and Spa is one leisure destination [...]

Climate change has become a crucial issue and the negative impact of the heavy industry on the climate and environment keeps getting highlighted. In this charged atmosphere all the big companies and brands like to propagate the fact that they are environmentally responsible and are doing their bit in reducing the negative impact of their business on [...]

Otarian Menu feature the carbon figures for each item listed on the menu and foods which generate too much of the black footprints are not offered altogether. The folks are also analyzing the World Resources Institute’s new product carbon foot printing standard to help customer understand their food choices in highly measurable and quantifiable way. The [...]

The word unfriend recently garnered the Oxford University Press’ Word of the Year recognition. Adrian Chen of Gawker realized that ‘the Word of the Year is a huge scam.’ He says that the past four winners are ‘all just hacky trend pieces from that year, in lexicographic form.’ To recall, the past four winners for Word of the Year are [...]

U2 and Bono have been vocal about their support for Mother Earth in their commitment to ‘save the planet.’ “My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet,” so says Bono. But people have come to criticize them for their double standard. Bono and his band have a massive carbon footprint as they tour the world with their concerts. Their [...]

US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a unique competition that allows talented students and designers to showcase energy efficient solar powered houses. Students from Santa Clara University have designed the Refract House which is all about harnessing light and lightening the carbon footprint we leave behind. The house is built on an area of 800 [...]

The hard facts are astounding as the number of people on the planet quadrupled to six billion during the 20th century. The world’s richest people on the planet now number half a billion, and their activities account for half of all carbon dioxide emissions on the entire planet. People from the US, still the richest nation on earth, are responsible [...]

A study by McAfee entitled ‘Carbon Footprint of Spam’ reveals that the annual global energy used up by spam has reached a total of 33 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) or 33 terawatt hours (TWh). All this power has been needed to transmit, process, and filter spam that has, in turn, reached a generation of 62 trillion spam emails swarming the earth [...]

Apple Inc is a very wealthy company — it sold 55 million iPods, 13 million iPhones and nearly 10 million Macs last year. Apple also is one of the most admired brands, both generally and among young people. In fact, Apple has done some good things. It has a good record on product power management. More recently it has improved on electronics recycling [...]

As you may have known by now, your orange juice traveled a long way before it got into your tall glass. The long attendant process translates to stages of carbon emission. For starters, the orange fruit was grown with the use of greenhouse gases-emitting nitrogen fertilizers. Does not sound too appetizing, does it? The processing of fruit into juice [...]