Carbon Offset

En El Mundo Del Aeromodelismo el 2008.10.20

Stinson Voyager Among the fastest selling planes of the day are the well known Stinson Voyager and Flying Station Wagon. Reasons for this extreme popularity are numerous. Of all the larger personal planes they are among the least expensive to purchase and operate. Further, they can be flown with ease. But probably the most important is their wide usefulness. With the ability to carry 4 passengers in comfort, or a pilot and a sizable quantity of cargo, they serve as family plane of business craft of...

En The Temas Blog el 2008.06.21

TemasEtUnam The North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has just released a "state of the environment" (SOE) report entitled The North American Mosiac (English, Spanish, French). The CEC is the main vehicle for environmental cooperation between Canada, Mexico and the US, and as I stated in a prior post, like it or not, Mexico has tied its environmental policymaking to that of its two NAFTA partners. The last time the CEC issued a SOE was in 2002. The report will...

En MotorSpain el 2008.05.27

Nissan introduce en Japón un programa de compensación de emisiones de CO2 para su modelo más pequeño, el Micra (que en Japón se llama March), consistente en que, por cada March Collet vendido, Nissan compra créditos al programa Carbon Offset Japan. Una tonelada de carbón en créditos equivale a lo que emite el Micra de CO2 durante 8.000 km de conducción, calculada a razón de 122gr/km. La Carbon Offset Japan es una organización sin...

En shave everything in life el 2008.05.27

Nissan First Carbon Offset Campaign - Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today became the first automaker in Japan to introduce a carbon offset program linked to the sale of a vehicle. For every March Collet sold, Nissan will pledge one ton of carbon credits under Carbon Offset Japan, an environmental non-profit organization abiding by the principals of the Kyoto...

En Blog of news el 2008.04.15

If carbon-footprint guilt is keeping you from taking a vacation, one company has your sun-soaked answer, TreeHugger reports. From the domestic flight to the hotel stay—and even airport transfers in biodiesel vans—NatureVacations' eco-frie [...] Link: Home from Newser Tags: carbon-footprint, guilt, keeping, from, taking, vacation,, company, your, sun-soaked, answer,, TreeHugger, reports., From, domestic, flight, hotel, stay—and, even, airport, transfers, biodiesel,...

En 'round design el 2008.04.07

I should have posted this on my message about the so called "carbon footprint"... but I just found it on my old bookmarks now that I am doing a bit of "winter cleaning". It's not a good way of reducing weight, it's about reducing carbon dioxide: "TerraPass' Climate Change Chocolate bar is meant to educate while tasting great. It comes in a wrapper with 15 tips for lightening your environmental impact. These helpful hints teach you how to save energy by making small changes to your daily habits. And of...

En Governance Focus el 2008.01.23

The carbon offset market is set to take off. But could U.S. businesses end up buying a lot of hot air? In northern Louisiana, ecologists are creating a new forest ? one Beetle at a time. In a floodplain known as the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, nearly 250,000 trees are being planted by a not-for-profit group called Carbonfund.org. Funding for the massive project, however, is coming from a decidedly for-profit outfit: Volkswagen of America. Like dozens of other businesses in the United States, the VW...

En Weltpolitik-Blog el 2007.04.18

Ethanol vehicles may have worse effects on human health than conventional petrol, US scientists have warned. A computer model set up to simulate air quality in 2020 found that in some areas ozone levels would increase if all cars were run on bioethanol. Deaths from respiratory problems and asthma attacks would increase with such levels, the researchers reported in Environmental Science and Technology. The EU has agreed that biofuels should be used in 10% of transport by 2020. Mark Jacobson, an atmospheric...

En Nacido en Bolivia el 2006.11.06

Picture: "Cielos bolivianos" By: Gery Moyano Articulo publicado en mongabay.com November 5, 2006 Bolivia could earn hundreds of millions of dollars through a global warming deal that may be proposed this week at climate talks between 189 countries in Nairobi, Kenya. At last year's negotiations in Montreal, a coalition of tropical developing countries lead by Papua New Guinea put forth an initiative whereby industrialized nations would pay them to protect their forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions....