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  • Add Eco-friendly Cooking To Your Green Living
    By: Ruthan Brodsky | - Ways to save energy in your kitchen go a long way to making your lifestyle and your home eco-friendly. Many of us are concerned about our furnace and air conditioner but there are dozens of smaller things you can pay attention to in your kitchen to live as green as you can. We want to reduce our carbon footprint and our ecological footprint.

    To start reducing that footprint in your kitchen, think how you cook your food, the type of energy you use for your range, dishwasher and fri ...

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  • Recycling - Free Your Footprint
    By: EcoWest 1 | - Imagine recycling as being like one of those SlimQuick diet pills. Only instead of suppressing our craving for food, it muzzles our demand for natural resources, which, in return, preserves undisturbed land, saves forests, conserves energy and reduces all forms of pollution.
    If youre new to the recycling game, all thats required on your behalf is awareness with a dash of commitment.
    To help get started, consider the following:
    Law Awareness
    Educate yourself on your ...

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  • 5 Ways To Reduce Your Company"s Carbon Footprint While Saving Money
    By: Dr. Ken Pollock | - The environmental cost of commerce has become an important part of business in America and the world as we all become increasingly aware and concerned about the impact of our actions on climate change and our environment. Many businesses are creating sustainability plans, training environmental impact officers and implementing company wide recycling and reduction programs.

    For many small and medium sized businesses, the option of hiring a college degreed sustainability officer and ...

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  • Top Tips To Turn Your School Building Green
    By: Kimberlie Hutson | - Global warming is a hot topic at the moment and governments round the world are all trying to lower CO2 emissions. The UK government is legally obliged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 12.5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

    Schemes like the Low Carbon Buildings Programme that offer grants to help cover some of the costs of installing microgeneration technology in school buildings means that schools can receive help when investing in environmentally friendly technologies. There ...

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  • Reduce Your Carbon Footprint - It's Easier Than You Think
    By: Neal Hamou | - With all the talk today about global warming, pollution and going green, most people are becoming overwhelmed with the vast amount of information out there about how to reduce what is known as your "carbon footprint." Well, it's not as complicated as one might think. First, let's start by defining just exactly what a carbon footprint is.

    A carbon footprint is a calculated figure that is determined by various factors in which one might be impacting the environment. Factors include ho ...

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  • What Are Carbon Offsets: Going Green And Creating Green Power Projects
    By: Dr. Ken Pollock | - As we all become more aware of our collective responsibility as stewards of our planet, capitalism has produced a verifiable mechanism for reducing carbon emissions, creating clean energy and engaging us all with the ability to minimize the damage we do to our environment.

    Carbon Offsets are a simple way for all of us to create a better environment for ourselves, our kids and, the big one, our grandchildren. More selfishly, we all need clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. ...

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  • What's My Carbon Footprint?
    By: Dr. Ken Pollock | - According to the UK Carbon Trust a carbon footprint is "the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product".

    Whenever you use energy created from fossil fuels such as oil or coal, you're generating carbon emissions, which increases the level of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is created by day-to-day corporate and personal activities such as driving, flying, heating or cool ...

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  • Will Your Business Remain Sustainable?
    By: Jean Cannon | - Do you feel confident that your business can survive carbon restriction? The majority of people realize that we need to be environmentally sustainable whether the conservatives and skeptics like it or not so change is coming. Business needs to reduce their carbon footprint with sensible energy management and embrace environmental sustainability and make a profit if it is going to survive. And the only real green business is ISO 14001.

    People are confused when the media and poli ...

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  • Why People Need To Know More About Carbon Footprint
    By: Anna Stenning | - Talking about the environment for some people may be an alien subject and a lot of people may not know how their daily actions have an impact on the atmosphere. Even small tasks such as disposing rubbish bins and cooking can leave ones carbon footprint, which will eventually affect the environment. In recent times studies have shown that our actions have a direct affect on the environment and certain actions to which we may not have considered to be adding to the carbon emissions have been a cau ...
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  • Reasons For Using Carbon Management Software
    By: Anna Stenning | - We can no longer deny the effects that our lifestyles are having on planet Earth. To do so would surely be to condemn our future generations to extremely uncertain prospects. If we do nothing about the carbon emission our homes and businesses generate, the human race is surely an endangered species.

    Carbon management software is a tool being utilised by forward thinking organisations to combat these effects.

    Carbon management software, in its simplest terms, is a co ...

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  • Your Business Can Save Money While You Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
    By: Jean Cannon | - Small to medium businesses struggles to cut costs and reduce waste of all types - energy, materials and human effort and the real issue is how to do this without taking extra time.

    I think we all know that we are living beyond our environmental means. We recently found out what happened when some of us lived beyond our financial means and how it impacted on the whole world. We don't want to learn the same lesson with the environment.

    We are using the world's oil sup ...

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  • Reduce Financial Stress By Reducing Carbon Waste In Your Business
    By: Jean Cannon | - The first step you need to take in your quest to reduce your carbon waste is to check what you do in your home - so go around and check what you are using. Then have a family talk and get "stuff" turned off. Entertainment and game machines are real power gobblers and often left on 24/7 when they are actually used for 2-3 hours!

    Here is a list of areas you can save - When you buy new appliances go for the ones with good energy ratings - Check your refrigerator seals. - How many f ...

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  • Understanding Carbon Footprint Consulting
    By: Anna Stenning | - The media has been buzzing with the words 'carbon footprint' for some time now, and there have been numerous incentives to persuade people to calculate their domestic footprint in an attempt to encourage awareness about climate change. For many people it is a daunting task to try and calculate a figure, especially when finding out that a flight from England to Italy uses up a whole years worth of a personal carbon allowance. For this reason, the popularity of carbon footprint consulting has grow ...
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  • Convince Me To Go Green
    By: Jamie Hanson | - I want to convince you for going green. There are heaps of causes to live sustainably. Living with the earth is much more than weather change, it is about pollution, resource management, eco-system management and leaving a improved world for our children.


    1.Impact of clothes
    The manufacture of garment requires vast amount of energy, labor and fabric, including the use of pesticides for the harvest, colorants and water for coloring, and the labor environment. When ...

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  • Negative Effects Of Carbon Emissions
    By: gcc | - After several years of being a passenger while terms like green living and carbon neutral were commonly uttered but rarely promoted, we decided that enough was enough. Everyone should be on a mission to communicate the message to every home and business that they can make a difference in reversing the negative effects of carbon emissions and otherwise destructive behavior. We feel that the talk was right, but the vehicle did not exist to any great degree thats where we com ...
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  • A Planet For Future Generations To Enjoy!!
    By: gcc | - Global Carbon Footprint is the biggest problem for environmental health. I think every one should Purchase Carbon Offsets to Reduce Co2 Footprint or say to become net zero carbon footprint (carbon neutral). Global warming is the biggest threat for wealthy planet. But many institutes are working on Carbon Reduction Projects to Carbon Dioxide Pollution which will provide better ways to tackle.
    Why would one person spend their money to reduce another persons carbon emissions? The ans ...

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  • 24's Green Gamble May Hurt Ratings
    By: Clarke Baldwin | - "24" is a television show hosted on Fox that portrays a former Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agent Jack Bauer pursuing terrorists and other rogue operatives in the country and protecting the nation. 24's main audience is consistently made up of both an age group and a demographic that leans quite heavily to the right wing of American politics. Fox also runs news channels which, most critics contend, lean to the right wing.

    Rupert Murdoch in spite of all this, donated heavily to Hil ...

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  • Lower Emissions: Lower Fuel Bills-take Action Now
    By: Dave Robus | - A Taxi company from Rye in East Sussex is taking steps to lower its carbon emissions and is reaping the benefits of lower fuel bills in the process by having "Hydroxy Injection Systems" fitted to its vehicles.

    The revolutionary system works by using the surplus electricity created by the alternator to split water into its 2 main elements of Hydrogen & Oxygen.

    The resulting gas which is known as "Hydroxy Gas" or "Browns Gas" is fed into the engine and mixed with the ...

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  • Protecting The Environment: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Through Your Eating Habits.
    By: Matt Morrison1 | - Carbon footprints lead to global warming from the emissions of the choices that we make as simple as turning a light on of off. There are various ways for an individual to decrease his or her carbon footprint effects on the environment. Most of the recommendations for reducing carbon footprints are simple such as turning off appliances that are not being used in the moment. Even your eating habits can affect global warming. In this article, you will discover how your eating habits can affect ...
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  • Protecting The Environment: Introducing The Carbon Footprint
    By: Matt Morrison1 | - The Carbon footprint has only just recently been coined. Many may ask what a carbon footprint is and the response is that it is an emission from every human being, including yourself, your family, your friends and the people you see every single day. These carbon footprints are generally created over a specific period of time, including days, weeks, months and years. Normally it is generalized that if you live a fast New City style pace of life, you will emit more energy than someone who li ...
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  • Refrigerant Gas Management Must Make A Consideration Of The Resultant Carbon Emission
    By: Daniel Stouffer | - In many countries, carbon emissions are required by law to be reported across an organization's entire footprint; hence the coined term "Carbon Footprint. Carbon data and detailed records of energy, fuel, and refrigerant gas consumption fall under regulatory compliance rules and must be reported in paper, and increasingly, electronic format - Globally.

    Refrigerant systems use high levels of greenhouse gases, so the EPA established the Climate Registry Protocol for calculating carb ...

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  • Battle Against Global Warming.
    By: gcc | - Why should I Purchase carbon offsets?


    For Global Warming Solution we all need to take account of our personal carbon emissions and make continued efforts to Reduce Co2 Emissions for ourselves. But it is impossible to reduce our carbon emissions to zero, no matter how hard we try. To Purchase Carbon Offsets is a practical and affordable way to do something about those remaining emissions.

    In addition, by voluntarily calculating and assigning a cost to your c ...

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  • Protecting The Environment : Eliminating The Traces Of Your Carbon Footprint
    By: Matt Morrison1 | - Every single person leaves a carbon footprint. What is a carbon footprint? It is the release or the emission of elements that we release into the world such as carbon dioxide. As these elements are being released, these emissions affect the Earth and produce worse effects on global warming . If you are interested in reducing your carbon footprint and reducing those of others, try to follow these suggestions.
    Depending on where you live, sometimes it is necessary for both heating and ...

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  • How Green Is My Wedding: Shrinking Your Carbon Footprint
    By: Blaine Arnot | - As most already know, There is a revolution happening in the wedding industry and it is colored green. Green weddings may be called a trend, but unlike other trends, this one is here to stay.

    The wedding industry in North America is enormous. In 2007 alone, the total cost of weddings was estimated at $62.8 billion in the US and $4 billion in Canada respectively. If you include some of the indirect costs like air travel of guests, etc., those numbers start to balloon even more. ...

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  • The Co2 Friendly Cooker
    By: Rebecca Crompton | - According to the Energy Saving Trust, 40% of the Carbon emissions that affect climate change come from the things that we do. It is important that we are all aware of the damage that our actions can cause to the environment and that we take positive steps, where we can, to make a difference and to reduce our Carbon footprint. If we all work together to achieve this goal then we can make even more of a difference.

    What small changes can you make in your home to reduce the amount ...

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  • It's A Global Solution For Pollution!!!
    By: gcc | - Before understanding about Carbon Offsets. Lets understand about carbon.

    About Carbon: -

    With the Atomic rank 6 and with atomic symbol C. Carbon is a nonmetallic element distributed widely in the form of amorphous, graphite, and diamond.

    About Carbon Offsets: -

    Understanding carbon offsetting is reasonably simple.Carbon dioxide emissions
    are caused by the burning of fossil: fuels: oil, coal and natural gas. Every individual ...

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  • Is Global Warming The Greatest Lie Ever Sold
    By: Aydan Corkern | - You know, scientists can argue back and forth from now until the sun stops shining about whether global warming is the cause of the polar ice caps melting, the reason we are experiencing some strange weather at times, or the reasons floods have seemingly become more frequent and in places that usually do not experience them, but the fact is that we are experiencing these things no matter what the cause may be. Some people believe that man is causing global warming, some believe that it is just a ...
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  • Can We Strain Carbon Dioxide Out Of The Air?
    By: Shawn Wilson | - While worries about the stock market, the auto industry, and just about everything to do with the economy are making the front pages of every daily newspaper, worries about global warming have never left the front of our minds. According to most scientists, the Earth is getting warmer, and the environment is already suffering for it. And those same scientists mostly agree that the problem has been created by the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.

    While reducing carbon emission ...

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  • Living Green: Top Ten Ways To Lower Your Carbon Footprint
    By: Nestor Santtia | - A carbon footprint is a measure of how much carbon gas (greenhouse gas) is emitted into the environment. Studies show that these types of carbon emissions have a potentially negative impact on the environment, contributing to global warming and climate change.

    Most of us would like to do the right thing for the environment, but how do you go about lowering your carbon footprint? Here are the top ten things you can do to "go green" and lower your carbon footprint:

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  • Green Holiday Gifts
    By: J.Mclean | - The holiday season can be a conflicted time for those with a mind toward being eco-friendly. While the season is a time to spend with family and friends, it can also be a time of great waste and consumption. But, those who are eco-friendly can also be holiday-friendly. There's no need to turn into the Grinch when a variety of "green" holiday gifts are available to delight your friends, family and coworkers. Here are some ideas to inspire this year's green holiday shopper:


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  • Formula One's Carbon Footprint On The Wane
    By: Lavana James | - The world is a place where greed and speed have predominated, but recently even the gods of pace have acknowledged that they either have to embrace environmentally friendly options or become extinct like the dinosaurs of old.

    Earth Car' gets the Formula 1 ball rolling

    Team Honda was the first of the Formula 1 teams who turned talk into tactics and two years ago they opted to make an environmentally conscious statement by branding their cars not with cor ...

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  • The Role Of The Carbon Footprint Consultant
    By: Anna Stenning | - Getting to know your carbon footprint input can seem like a foreign language to most people, however, others may take the option in discussing how to manage their carbon emissions by going through a consultant. Carbon footprint consultants are commonly hired to go through carbon emissions in large corporate organisations whereby carbon emissions tend to be higher than average household emissions.

    Global warming is a subject that many people will be familiar with, even if they are ...

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  • Chrysler's First Electric Car Promises To Help Drivers Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
    By: J.Mclean | - In today's world of increasing change, most of us are looking to reduce our carbon footprint. We are recycling, telecommuting, purchasing carbon offsets, carpooling and trying a number of innovative ways to control our impact on the Earth.

    Major car manufacturers are also finding ways to decrease the effects of human activity on global warming. First introduced worldwide in 2001, the Toyota Prius, a hybrid vehicle that runs on gasoline and electric power, inspired other car m ...

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  • Do You Live In A Walkable"' City?
    By: J.Mclean | - With gas prices on the rise, many people are rethinking their driving habits by carpooling or buying more fuel efficient cars. But the best way to save gas is not to drive at all, which is a lot easier if you live in a walkable neighborhood. WalkScore rates areas based on the proximity of common conveniences like restaurants, schools, and parks to any address you can enter.

    Walking more often not only helps save gas money, but also decreases your carbon footprint. Driv ...

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  • A Texas-sized Investment In Wind Energy
    By: J.Mclean | - Texas' Public Utilities Commission agreed recently to move forward with an ambitious plan to increase renewable energy transmission in the state. PUC officials ok'd the construction of huge transmission lines from the wind-rich western areas of Texas to the major metropolitan areas in the east. Texas is already the leading state in wind energy capacity, but these new transmission lines signify a serious commitment to ensuring that all that wind energy can get where it's needed t ...
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  • What Is A Carbon Footprint? Why Is It Important To Offset Your Carbon Footprint?
    By: J.Mclean | - Our carbon footprint is the direct effect our actions and lifestyle have on the environment in terms of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. CO2 increases greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. We all contribute to global warming every day.
    Carbon Footprints are made up of two parts, the direct or primary footprint and the indirect or secondary footprint. The primary footprint is a measure of our direct emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels. These are probably the big ...

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  • Reducing The Carbon Footprint Of Your Home
    By: Crazy Cabinet Guy | - Regardless of where you look, the global community has made "green initiatives" a hot button topic, regardless of what topic you are discussing. Everything industry from construction to cooking, to education, are implementing programs to reduce their environmental impact. The home building or home improvement industry is no exception. Many construction companies, home improvement centers and product manufacturers advertise some level of commitment towards green or environmentally frien ...
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  • Halt Global Warming And Save Your Life!
    By: Paul Petersen | - Our main concern at the moment friends is not those ever increasing gas fuel costs but the virtually irreversible changes in the environment due to our carbon footprint being left on this planet which is causing global warming. We may be different in many respects but when the effects start to be felt, we will all come under attack from a new enemy. A large number of cases of life threatening conditions such as skin cancer, lung cancer, and other respiratory diseases into the millions will be th ...
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  • Alternative Fuels... What Are They?
    By: Shawn Milano | - The alcohol found in alcoholic beverages is ethanol. However, the ethanol used for motor fuel is denatured, which means poison has been added so people can't drink it. Some people believe that producing ethanol takes more energy than it gives back and for the most part, this is true.  However, technologies have evolved in such a way that it is possible to increase the efficiency of producing ethanol.

    Right now in the United States, there is a huge push for people to use alter ...

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  • Changing Your Impact On The Environment
    By: Crazy Cabinet Guy | - Being eco-friendly isn't a new concept, but it is certainly taken on a greater sense of urgency in the past few years. With the rise cost of fossil fuels, global warming, and all of the other environmental issues that are coming to light, everyone is looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and become more 'green'.

    Being energy conscious can be a good way to help the environment. Turn the heat down, each degree you turn down the heat saves 3 percent of heating costs, ...

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  • Solar Water Heater
    By: Curtis Reddehase | - A single tank solar water heating system combines solar preheated water and backup heating into one tack, which is in contrast to a typical two tank systems which will separate these functions. In either case solar water heating systems can save 55% to 85% on your water heating costs. Since water heating is the second largest energy guzzler in your home this can mean some serious savings in the future. Most single tank solar water heaters feature a 240 watt electric heating element in the top ha ...
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  • How The Role Of A Carbon Consultant Will Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
    By: Anna Stenning | - Carbon footprint is a subject that has affected almost everyone in the UK. The level of carbon footprint released by an individual is measured almost obsessively with many companies changing the way they use their equipments and replacing much of their energy-sourced facilities. Many establishments do not know how to reduce their carbon emissions and often seek assistance from carbon consultants.

    The role of carbon consultants stems from the concern of carbon foot printing, which ...

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  • Saving Energy And Money Without Spending A Penny
    By: Andy Black | - Saving energy is without doubt the most important thing you can do for the environment and is really easy, providing you are aware of the various ways by which to do so. It is the perfect solution to an ever-growing energy bill and can be easy and is good for everyone. Saving energy can be as simple as choosing energy efficient light bulbs for the lighting needs in your home or business, or it can just be as simple as flicking a switch. Saving energy is also one of the quickest and cheapest ...
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  • How To Calculate Your Carbon Foot Printing
    By: Anna Stenning | - We have all heard and seen the adverts for carbon emission and foot printing. However, a lot of us do not know what all of these information and warnings mean. What is a carbon footprint and how do we reduce it? One thing that some of us may know is that it has some connection to climate change and if we do not act now we could be looking at a bleak future. Therefore, we need to understand effective carbon management techniques.

    First of all what is carbon footprint? This is the p ...

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  • Professional Fire Fighters Go Green To Fight Global Warming
    By: B Hart | - The Robbinsville Professional Fire Fighters Local 3786 have purchased two TerraPass carbon offsets for our front line emergency response vehicles, Engine 40 and Ambulance 140-10, in the hope of sparking community awareness about the seriousness of global warming and climate change. Robbinsville's career fire fighters are doing their part to reduce the adverse impact of their emergency vehicles on the planet. The fire fighters union contacted TerraPass and had each piece of emergency equipment ...
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  • Glamour For Monaco Prince At 50
    By: Monaco | - The rich and celebrities fill Monte Carlo every evening to socialise and play the tables at her fabled casino, but as Prince Albert of Monaco turns 50 he is often spending his evenings on matters of State and the wider world.

    And as the prince reaches his half century, his reputation and the respect he commands is deservedly a more serious one among his fellow world leaders than that the celebrity magazines portrayed before he became Monaco's sovereign.

    For far from ...

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  • Plant Spirit Shamanism: What's Up With The Weather?
    By: ross heaven | - Plant spirit shamans natural healers who work with herbs, ritual, and the elements have long known that the world is not made up of discrete and separate parts, but that we are all one: that the butterfly effect' of a single extra drop of water released from a cloud into a Gloucestershire river could eventually lead to flooding in the distant streets of London.

    Through Gaia Theory and a more informed understanding in recent years of how the natural world, the environ ...

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  • Live Earth Made Me Cry
    By: Seth Garrison | - It was New Years Eve in 2000. I was sitting in my apartment, alone, watching television. There were tears flowing down my cheeks. No, it wasn't because I was alone. It was because I was watching the broadcast of new year's celebrations from the major cities around the globe.

    It wasn't sad crying, it was a happy, loving cry. I felt a love for my fellow human being like I had never experienced before. I had a realization that we truly were all the same. That there is no difference i ...

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  • Reduce Our Carbon Footprint By Decreasing The Amount Of Co2
    By: Null Hypothesis | - In a stroke of sheer brilliance, The journal of unlikely science, weird
    science Null Hypothesis has cracked the climate change problem.
    Less than a month into Richard Branson's five-year competition, Null
    Hypothesis will take its winning idea to Virgin Earth and walk away
    with a cool $25 million.

    The solution to Branson's problem (not to mention our, global, problem)
    is closer to hand than we could ever have imagined. It is, quite
    simply, stop ...

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  • Fancy A Change Of Career? Why Not Try Carbon Coaching?
    By: Davinos Greeno | - Dave Hampton believes he has found his purpose now he has become the carbon coach. In this article he explores where his sooty bus is going!

    What is a carbon coach?

    In July 2005 I left a near perfect job, Director of a successful consultancy (ABS consulting) to set up in business as The Carbon Coach. My mission (and it is mission possible!) is to coach celebs and influential individuals: to help them prosper and feel good by shrinking their lifestyle carbon footprin ...

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