and it's a lot more common than you and your honeycombed carbon lattices: bamboo. Bamboo is being hailed as a new super material,
The fast growing rugged grass has unrivaled capacity to capture carbon the article claims. The bamboo industry hails the crop's other environmental benefits.
Carbon fiber an environmental culprit And more bamboo bits: Toymaker turns to bamboo for material and inspiration In Mexico city,'bamboocycles'make two-wheeled transport trendy California company offers sustainable packaging for meat,
For each sector of the economy, they analyzed the effects of a wide range of chemicals--such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, organic carbon black carbon, nitrate, sulfate and ozone--on the atmosphere, particularly clouds.
the company is striving for carbon neutrality this year. By the end of 2010, about 39 percent of the power that the company uses will come from renewable energy sources;
Unlike diamond and many other extremely hard materials, boron nitride is based on a latticework of boron and nitrogen atoms not carbon.
 Some use radiocarbon, thermoluminescence and other techniques to accurately date the antiques. Others concentrate on identifying signs of artificial aging.
with the intent to reduce water use and carbon emissions and boost yield. I-Crop has the potential to revolutionize the way we farm,
enabling our farmers to save costs and water and carbon consumption, while at the same time improving their yields,
promising to reduce carbon emissions and water usage by 50 percent across the farming of its core crops in the next five years with the use of low-carbon fertilizers and new varieties of produce
and measuring various carbon and gas emissions. Those sensors have typically been used for finding gas leaks
 Terrewalks use what is considered a low carbon footprint manufacturing method. SP: What's the cost differential between Rubbersidewalks products and conventional concrete walkways?
There's an increasing realization of carbon emissions having a negative effect on the environment through climate change.
coal currently contributes 40 percent to carbon emissions globally. There are six billions tons of coal consumed each year.
You could essentially lower global carbon emissions by 10 to 15 percent by taking advantage of agricultural waste and invasive plant and converting them into a coal replacement.
It would make a positive impact on global carbon emissions. That's one example. There are many others like that.
We are putting carbon that was locked away during the Cretaceous period 300 million years ago, back into the atmosphere as CO2.
but we want them to understand their carbon footprint. I â â¢m going to perform on the stock exchange floor.
So, for example, you can see what the company's philosophy is related to carbon offsets (it prefers to generate renewable energy wherever it can)
Knowing how tall the forests are will help scientists figure out how much carbon the trees can capture
In a separate mapping project reported by the San jose mercury news (the tie-ins are carbon and lidar),
MIT researchers created a carbon nanotube with a bee venom-based sensor, designed to detect traces of explosives.
or better than many typical filtering materials, like silica or carbon. What's more, the peels are a cheap waste material.
The simple activated carbon filtration system aims to tackle the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the proportion of the world people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.
and reduce their carbon footprint, but Brightfarms has another idea: hydroponic greenhouses. Often, the high cost of organic produce is fueled by cross-continent shipping and distribution.
Since 2009, Disney has invested also more than $27 million in forest carbon projects in the United states, Peru, Brazil, Democratic Republic of congo,
or any other starting point other than what is required to achieve carbon neutrality. Cities should provide incentives to developers who meet these performance goals.
or palm-oil production releases large quantities of stored carbon into the atmosphere. Grazing ruminant animals, like cattle and sheep, also contribute significantly to climate change.
low-carbon energy revolution, the main beneficiary seems to be favoured the fuel of preindustrial societies.
But if subsidising biomass energy were an efficient way to cut carbon emissions, perhaps this collateral damage might be written off as an unfortunate consequence of a policy that was beneficial overall.
Wood produces carbon twice over: once in the power station, once in the supply chain. The process of making pellets out of wood involves grinding it up,
and produces carbon: 200kg of CO2 for the amount of wood needed to provide 1mwh of electricity.
This decreases the amount of carbon saved by switching to wood, thus increasing the price of the savings.
And that assumes the rest of the process (in the power station) is carbon neutral. It probably isn t.()As another bit of the EU,
the assumption oethat biomass combustion would be inherently carbon neutral is not correct as it ignores the fact that using land to produce plants for energy typically means that this land is not producing plants for other purposes,
including carbon otherwise sequestered. Tim Searchinger of Princeton university calculates that if whole trees are used to produce energy,
they increase carbon emissions compared with coal (the dirtiest fuel) by 79%over 20 years and 49%over 40 years;
there is no carbon reduction until 100 years have passed, when the replacement trees have grown up. But as Tom Brookes of the European Climate Foundation points out, oewe re trying to cut carbon now;
not in 100 years time. In short, the EU has created a subsidy which costs a packet,
probably does not reduce carbon emissions, does not encourage new energy technologies and is set to grow like a leylandii hedge
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