'carbon footprint' entries

In a response to criticism of his personal carbon footprint, VP Al Gore has made dramatic reductions in how much energy his Nashville, Tennessee home uses.

Leading corporations with large numbers of customers and large carbon dioxide footprints are beginning to go green. Bank of America is one recent example.

Congratulations EnergyRacers. You are reducing over 3,000 tons of CO2. That's a 17% carbon footprint reduction per member. While some of us have taken on the big projects like new windows (8%) or solar power (3%), most of us are doing the little things that add up to tons of CO2 reductions:

Several of you have asked how EnergyRace calculates your carbon footprint (or CO2 emissions). Sometimes you ask because you are curious but many times it is because the EnergyRace number is either higher or lower than you expected. So here is how it works.

If I asked you what a DVD is, chances are you wouldn't have too much trouble coming up with - a round plastic disk, similar to a CD, that holds movies. We say, "let’s watch a DVD" or "when is that movie coming out on DVD" with relative ease. The term DVD is a big success. It is only 12 years old and techie terms or products don’t usually get adopted so quickly when the term does not help say what it is. Let’s take a look at some of the new global warming terminology and see how those terms are doing.