Chinese Markets for Activated Carbon Focuses on Historical Data (1997,...

M2 Presswire;  August 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Carbon Import and Export V. ACTIVATED CARBON CONSUMPTION BY MARKET Activated Carbon Markets...Carbon Producers China's Activated Carbon Consumption by market 2007 Major Foreign Investment...by Manufacturer China's Activated Carbon Consumption by Markets Activated Carbon Capacity...

HIE to turn island into test area for green technology

Scotland on Sunday;  November 5, 2006 ;     405 words ......chairman, said the development agency would attempt to slash carbon consumption on a selected island by more than half in order to demonstrate...which are also low-carbon economies." HIE hopes to reduce carbon consumption on the island to below a level which experts regard as...

Supermarket plugs in to 'green' vans

Belfast Telegraph;  September 25, 2008 ;     130 words ......com van, which made its debut at the Tesco green store at Newtownbreda yesterday, runs solely on electricity, reducing carbon consumption and each vehicle will save around nine tonnes of CO2 per year*. The vans were introduced last year into the Tesco Shrewsbury...

TV land: soapville.(Features)

The Mirror (London, England);  May 4, 2007 ;     210 words ......cooking Deirdre a steak dinner. As they ate, he told her he'd got the broccoli at a farmers' market - and a huge row about food carbon footprints ensued. Deirdre stormed out, her steak untouched. Things deteriorated quickly. After some relationship advice from...

Our views: A green way to cool down; Planting more plants could help...

Charleston Daily Mail;  May 16, 2007 ;     268 words ......more fuel-efficient cars, eating fewer methane-producing animals, using better light bulbs, lowering thermostats, paying carbon consumption taxes, putting solar generators on roofs, etc. But there is scientific agreement only that humans are affecting their...

Profile in cowardice.(From the Editor)(Editorial)

Earth Island Journal;  September 22, 2007 ;     452 words ...While the planet burns, Washington fiddles. Each day brings fresh evidence of how humanity's reckless carbon consumption fuels atmospheric changes. Europe experienced a particularly bizarre summer, as erratic weather simultaneously brought a heat wave...

Costs of illegal logging rise in Indonesia. (News).

Wood Based Panels International;  February 1, 2003 ;     260 words ......Senior lecturer at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) Bintang Simangunsong said the main impacts were in the form of carbon consumption, landslides, floods and non-wood product extraction. According to Mr Bintang, only 18.9 million hectares of 46.8 million...

COLUMN: Right issue, wrong winner

University Wire;  October 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......disseminate information about lifestyle changes that reduce carbon consumption. His portion of the Nobel Prize money will be donated...changes in consumer habits, not through policy reform. Carbon consumption may be slowed by the conscience-pricking of Gore's work...

Cutting the carbon footprint.(Business)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  November 19, 2007 ;     231 words ......at 480 tonnes a year and it plans to halve this before 2012. Director Mike Geoghegan said: The campaign to reduce our carbon consumption will begin by introducing ecofriendly measures at head office and targeting our employees and suppliers. For example...

Nothing is 'sustainable'

The Spectator;  August 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ......no one has a right to feel more smug this week than President Bush. No amount of power showers will lift his personal carbon consumption to the level of the 105 world leaders who, unlike him, will be blazing trails of noxious pollution through the lower stratosphere...

Virgin territory; Green business.(The greening of Virgin)

The Economist (US);  September 30, 2006 ;     536 words ...Al turned Richard green Richard Branson's move to cut greenhouse-gas emissions CARBON consumption could hardly be more conspicuous, or extravagant, than jetting out to space for a quick peep at the heavens before coming home...

Carbon consumption and current efficiency in Hall-Heroult cell

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions;  August 1, 2001 ;     131 words ...[Reference] REFERENCES [Reference] 1. T.G. Pearson and J. Waddington: Disc. Faraday Soc., 1947, vol. 1, p. 307. 2. T.R. Beck: J. Electrochem. Soc., 1959, vol. 106, p. 710. 3. T.R. Beck: J. Electrochem. Soc., 1960, vol. 107, p. 577. [Reference] 4. V.A. Cammarata, Jr. and D. Schlain: J. Electrochem.

My gobsmacking eco-diet ; Sausages but no steak, yoghurt but no ice-cream...

Evening Standard - London;  June 18, 2007 ;     429 words ...FOOD MILES are something I am highly sensitive to. Each week, I stand in Waitrose examining every humble vegetable for provenance. If it's Peruvian, it's out. If it's from Hayward's Heath, it's in. Kenyan green beans are weighed up on merit (bad for the environment, good for the farmers), and

Book praises church for its green efforts ; A devon church features in a...

Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  August 27, 2008 ;     188 words ......publication encourages church leaders to take climate change seriously and to inspire their congregations into reducing carbon consumption. St Andrew's Church has been highlighted for having published its own booklet recording the origins and ecology of the...

Indonesia loses 600 mln dlrs in illegal logging annually

Xinhua News Agency;  January 17, 2003 ;     216 words ......lecturer at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), Bintang Simangunsong, said that the main impact is in the form of carbon consumption, landslides, floods and nonwood product extraction. According to Bintang, only 18.9 million hectares of 46.8 million hectares...