carbon offsetting

American cities with the biggest buildings and the smallest carbon footprints.

Smartlygreen.com is for people with an environmental conscience but little time to do much about it. It has created a way that allows you to offset your carbon footprint without making any changes to your lifestyle and without any cost to you.

New site, EcoPerks.com, launched this week offering simple ways to live a more carbon neutral lifestyle while earning 'EcoPoints' to be used toward valuable rewards. The  platform is a unique blend of cause, commerce, content, community and carbon offset tools tied to the most generous rewards program on the Internet. EcoPerks.com has an unmatched range of products, information and functionality designed to promote carbon neutral living.

Climate Change Action Backed Up by $145-million Investment: Premier

Part of the '21st Century Challenges' events being held by the Royal Geographical Society in London.

The next revolution in agriculture and greenhouse gas reduction may be a 3000-year old farming practice of adding biomass charcoal to the soil which may prove to be not just "green" and sustainable, but carbon-negative as well.

The first annual Earth Day Expo at Habana Outpost in Fort Grenne Brooklyn. The focus of this two-day event will be to provide a place for the community to access information about sustainability in a fun and interactive way through a series of free events and workshops.

Leonardo DiCaprio is getting into the act, promoting a new green credit card. Do you know what your options are when it comes to green credit cards?

While it's true that many organisations are looking to reduce their carbon footprint, it's also the case that much of the green hype is unfounded. Besides, there's plenty of evidence that planting-a-tree missions are a misguided approach to reducing carbon emissions.

Doubts have been raised in the past about the viability of tree-planting as a carbon-offset mechanism. This site has some nifty dynamic charts and also explains how tree-planting CAN be useful for carbon-offsets. NOTE: The author doesn't come across as a green-basher but rather presents some inescapable truths.

EU delivers ultimatum to US airlines

Stock Photography Portal BrightQube is pairing with TerraPass to offer the purchase of carbon offset's in exchange for activity on BrightQube's site. From March 18th to May 31st they will purchase credits for users who create an account, purchase images or create a lightbox.

California Environmental Justice Movement submites its case.

If you’ve ever wanted to create your own green, humble abode to see just how much energy you consume, how much trash you produce and how much water you waste, then I’ve discovered a cool interactive game that let’s you do just that!

For some reason Americans want everything that they own to be BIG: big houses with 12 rooms too many, big stereo systems that pump out big remixes to every song imaginable, big flat screen plasma TVs and, of course, big cars.