Scientists have know for more than a century that carbon dioxide and other “green house gases” (including water vapor, methane, and cholorfluorocartons) help prevent heat from escaping the earth’s atmosphere. In fact, it is this “green house” effect that keeps the earth warm enough to support life. Yet there can be too much of a good…
Category: Environmental Protection
Low carbon lifestyle fashionable
A youthful online group is leading the way to have an eco-friendly lifestyle, which is called the “Low Carbon Tribe”. Members in this tribe range in age from 20 to 40, and they intend to have a try on reducing carbon dioxide emissions in a relaxed and fashionable way. They have claimed that helping save…
Going Carbon Neutral
In her first major speech to Parliament in 2007, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark laid down an ambitious plan of making New Zealand the world’s first greenhouse gas (GHG)-neutral country. Among measures Clark announced include a plan that clean-burning biofuels must account for 3.4 percent of fuel sold in the country by 2012 to…