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United Kingdom: Asda turns to Canary Islands bananas to cut carbon footprint
2013-03-11 10:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Supermarket chain Asda is to be the first to sell bananas from the Canary Islands, in an attempt to reduce the fruit's considerable carbon footprint. Transportation time will be more than 80 per cent shorter than for bananas sourced from central America. The fruit will be shipped from the Canaries to mainland Spain and then by road to the UK ripening centre -- a total journey of four days as opposed to 24 days for bananas from the Caribbean and Americas. The bananas, already familiar to the...
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Carbon Friendly Solutions Signs Agreements With L2I To Validate And Monetize Carbon Credits
2013-03-11 09:30:00| pollutiononline News Articles
Carbon Friendly Solutions Inc. (the “Company” or “Carbon Friendly”) is pleased to announce that it has signed two agreements with L2I Financial Solutions (“L2I”) to obtain additional value from the Company’s carbon credit projects
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George Shultz pushes for carbon tax
2013-03-08 20:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Republican eminence grise George Shultz addressed a packed room on Capitol Hill Friday to press for a carbon tax. A Californian now at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Shultz taught economics at the University of Chicago and is one of just two people ever to hold four Cabinet posts. Bucking his party on climate change, Shultz said all forms of energy should compete "on a level playing field" by incorporating the cost of their carbon pollution. Once carbon pollution...
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Carbon footprint of grid-scale battery technologies calculated
2013-03-08 17:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use of solar and wind power in the United States makes the on-demand delivery of electricity more challenging. A key problem is that the U.S. electrical grid has virtually no storage capacity, so grid operators can't stockpile surplus clean energy and deliver it at night, or when the wind isn't blowing. To provide more flexibility in managing the grid, researchers have begun developing new batteries...
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Vigilent Successfully Reduces Carbon Emissions, Employee Waist Sizes, And Commuting Barriers
2013-03-08 12:01:00| pollutiononline Home Page
Technology isn’t the only innovation emerging from Silicon Valley these days. Vigilent, an energy management company located in the San Francisco East Bay, announced the results of a unique wellness program that ties additional stock option grants to healthier lifestyle choices
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