The C-Change Trust

Carbon footprint of food

Sweden is the first country that started fighting against carbon footprints. Sweden implemented new standards in supermarkets and fast food restaurants. The carbon footprint from food is labeled on most of the food products sold in Sweden. This conveys the measures taken towards greenhouse emissions. The product labels are meant to support consumers to choose an environmentally conscious approach when it comes to making food and consuming meals. Research shows that twenty five percent of Sweden’s greenhouse emissions are based More

Carbon Emissions and its effects on Marine life

The chemistry of ocean is affected by Carbon dioxide emissions. Marine life is struggling to cope with its changes. The world has become aware on the effects of carbon dioxide emissions and its negative consequences. Humans pollute the atmosphere with massive amounts of carbon dioxide each and every year. This has dire effects on human health. The carbon emission has a larger impact on the world’s oceans by affecting ocean acidity and having drastic consequences for marine life.

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Green Computers

Computer technology is the latest thing to become environmentally conscious. Computer manufactures are making efforts to reduce global warming by coming up with a new type of computer, the Green computer.

Their goal is to reduce the electronic waste around the world; these green-machines are far superior to the regular PC. Green or Eco Friendly Computers (as they are often called) use only a small portion of the electricity than a normal computers. Normal computers use about 200 watts of More

How green is green?

The bid to make the world green is no longer strange to those who are conscious of what is going on in the word. In London, two giant world renowned auditing firms moved into new eco-friendly headquarters. Their efforts may be an issue of rivalry but it is also a commendable action that is important to the green campaign. The bid to save earth is increasing at the center of government policies worldwide. The question here however is how green More

Green is the new black!

‘Carbon Footprint'has become somewhat of a buzzword in recent years as the environmental impact of modern living has been pushed further and further to the forefront of government policies and companies corporate social responsibilities.

The term ‘Carbon Footprint'relates to the greenhouse gas emissions caused by an entity, be it an individual, a business or a particular event in time. The issue is so pertinent that the Kyoto Protocol was set up to specifically target and reduce these emissions setting guidelines More

Reuse and recycle

As a previous employee of Diamond Waste, I feel like I’m an expert on the subject of garbage. Not that we dealt with much household rubbish; the stuff we had to dispose of once and for all tended to fall very definitely in the “not for recycling” category. These days, there isn’t much that could end up in your household bin that you can’t recycle. Paper, plastics, glass even tins and cans; every recycling center has a range of More

Picnic craving

It’s easy to not a a large carbon footprint when living in the city on one level. You can use public transport for most places and avoid filling the world’s atmosphere with polution. The big issue is that I really miss driving particularly the different range of hybrid cars out there. Occationally I like to leave the city over the weekend just to have space to drive properly. In the summer I borrow a friends car with an open top More

Agriculture and the Environment

Many people would not believe that the agricultural industry has a huge carbon foot print. But it’s true, if you would like to successfully produce a high crop yield then additional energy is needed to produce it. When growing a crop out of its season, or in a foreign region, preserving and canning and not to forgot the use of chemicals like pesticides have a huge impact on the carbon foot print of the agricultural industry.

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The American Embassy in London is an Eco Cube

Adhering to the world need to go green the American Embassy in London is considered an eco building. Reported to be completed in 2017 this building largely resembles a floating cube. An estimated $1 billion dollars will be spent on this structure. There are many reasons why this building is supposed to be an eco cube.

Designed by a Philadelphia architect by the name of Kieran Timberlake, the building is being built under much More

Green energy and industries in the US

There is a growing challenge being thrown at the industries in the US, and that is of keeping their machines running with low energy requirement. There is also the issue of environmentalists the world over keeping a sharp tag on these industries to ensure that aspects like global warming and carbon emission levels are not being compromised. Industries there are therefore trying to shift over to green energy usage to ward off these additional checks that they are being subjected More