10 Simple Steps to Reduce Your Pet’s Carbon Pawprint

From the 8 billion pounds of kitty litter heading to landfills each year to the effects of a pet’s carnivorous diet, pet parents should be aware of the substantial carbon footprint left by pets. To address this important matter, PETCO has developed an exclusive partnership with Greenwala.com, the leading online resource empowering people to go “green”. With the help of both Greenwala.com and Tracie Hotchner, author and host of NPR’s Gracie-Award winning show, “Cat Chat” on Sirius Radio, PETCO has compiled a list of simple ways to reduce the environmental impact of pets.

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Tags: climate change, eco, environment, footprint, pawprint, pet, petco

Climate change: What would Brian Boitano do?

Climate change: What would Brian Boitano do? He make a plan and follow through! In South Park the olympic Ice Skater Brian Boitano could do anything, but can he save the planet?

Well maybe not Brian Boitano, but four U.S. olympians have called on the U.S. Senate to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation this year.
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Tags: brian boitano, clean energy, climate, climate change, Energy, ice, legislation, olympics, senate, ski, skiers, skiing, snow, snowmelt, south park, sport, vancuver, winter

Biodiversity, Climate Change and You

EEA Signals 2010 tells six stories about people and the environmental issues they live with today. These ‘eyewitnesses’ invite you on a journey to both familiar and distant places looking again at the foundations of life on earth — water, soil and air. Although their observations are personal and local, their plight is common and global.
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Tags: biodiversity, climate change, earth, eyewitness, global warming, stories

Going green to be seen

New research shows a new trend that people will forgo luxury for green products when status is at stake.

Why do people purchase pro-environmental “green” products? Do we buy them because we care about the planet, or because they enhance our image? A new study, co-authored by Bram Van den Bergh from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, has found that for many people, environmentally-friendly products, like fair trade coffee and hybrid cars, are merely status symbols.
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Tags: climate change, eco, environment, global warming, green, luxury, products, shopping, status, status symbols

First Wind-Powered Ferry Planned for San Francisco Bay

Wind+Wing Technologies today announced plans to build the nation’s first winged and wind-assisted ferry vessel for public use in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ferry will utilize the wind, an inherent natural resource in the Bay Area, in conjunction with an innovative wing and clean Diesel motors to power and maneuver the vessel. The fuel saving design could save up to 40 percent of the fuel costs compared to the ferries currently operating in the Bay Area.
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Tags: climate change, Energy, ferry, global warming, power, san francisco, sustainable, wind, wind power

10 Best Eco-Adventure Destinations in India

India is one of the most popular destinations of Adventure Sports and Ecotourism. Thrillophilia Adventure is the first service provider in India dealing with adventure-related activities on a pan-India level. Thrillophilia Adventure have pioneered into adventure travel throughout the Indian Himalaya, Western Ghats, Deserts, offering the widest range of adventure tours, from soft adventure, eco-tourism trips to challenging expedition travel.
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Tags: adventrues, climate change, eco, eco-tourism, global warming, holdiay, india, Nature, tourism

The World Prepares To Participate in WWFs Earth Hour

On Saturday, March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time, the largest ever public demonstration for action on climate change will take place as lights are symbolically turned off for one hour in homes, office buildings, iconic landmarks, government buildings and retail establishments across the globe for Earth Hour.
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Tags: 2010, climate change, climate crunch, earth hour, global warming, march, world wildlife fund, wwf

Year of the Tiger Begins with Big Cats in Serious Trouble Around the World

As many Asian countries prepare to celebrate Year of the Tiger beginning February 14, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reports that tigers are in crisis around the world, including here in the United States, where more tigers are kept in captivity than are alive in the wild throughout Asia. As few as 3,200 tigers exist in the wild in Asia where they are threatened by poaching, habitat loss, illegal trafficking and the conversion of forests for infrastructure and plantations.
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Tags: asia, big cats, cats, climate change, environment, exstinct, habitat, threat, tiger, troublespots, tx2, world wildlife fund, wwf, year of the tiger

This week in tech: We need an energy miracle

We begin our weekly round up of green tech and gadget news as featured on the pages of Climate Crunch, with the news that former Microsoft boss Bill Gates may be the new Al Gore, “we need an energy miracle”, he stated, “We must innovate our way to zero CO2 emissions” he told the audience at TED an exclusive tech conference.
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Tags: climate change, climate crunch, corky mouse, emissions, energy miracle, garbage, gates, global warming, illumicharger, solar charger, solio, street lamps, tech, Technology, twit

Winter Olympics: the First Ever Carbon Neutral Olympic Games

The Vancouver Olympics are the first Olympic games to aspire to be carbon-neutral. According to the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) the games will achieve Carbon Neutral status through the following four steps: 1. Knowing how much carbon the games emits and publicly tracking and reporting on it; 2. Reducing emissions wherever possible; 3. Offsetting direct carbon emissions that cannot be reduced or eliminated; and 4. Enabling and inspiring further action.
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Tags: carbon neutral, climate change, climate mama, global warming, olmpics, winter olympics