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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
 
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. [...]

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 [...]

And you think you can be stringent with your carbon footprint while looking up the meaning of the buzzword over Google, eh? Making at least two searches via the search engine comes up to 14g of CO2 or that which you will use to boil water in an electric kettle. There you go. So, if [...]

A new study in the journal Energy & Environmental Science says that nearly 700m tons of CO2 would be released into the Earth’s atmosphere by even the smallest nuclear conflict, comparatively measured as more than UK’s annual emission. But there are some benefits of a nuclear war, too. It will also send up 313m tons [...]

The United Kingdom has set a national standard for carbon footprint. This new carbon audit system will measure the attempt of UK business to measure up to the institutionalized CO2 footprint standard, across their specific supply chains – in production, consumption, and disposal.
Everything but everything has a carbon footprint, so this standard applies to all [...]