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A Carbon “Price” means a Carbon “Tax”

| Sourced From Canadafreepress | Carbon is the most useful substance on earth and there is already a price on every product containing carbon – coal and oil, bread and butter, beef and bacon, oil and ethanol, beer and whiskey, coffee and tea, cotton and wool, diesel and fire wood, methane and carbon dioxide, petrol and [...]

Zyxel Wireless ADSL2+ Router Receives Carbon Footprint Label

| Sourced From Itvarnews | ADSL2+-Router-Receives-Carbon-Footprint-Label.html Zyxel Wireless ADSL2+ Router has been granted a carbon footprint label by Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) in Taiwan. ZyXEL is among the first group of Taiwan companies to achieve this distinction, and is also the first networking equipment maker to receive this honor. With the international community placing a growing emphasis on [...]

Private sector investment vital for low-carbon economy

| Sourced From Thecitizen | Increased cross-border capital flows and technology transfer in low-carbon business to Tanzania and other developing countries can significantly contribute to global efforts to combat climate change. This has been said by the vice president of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA), Mr Emmanuel Ole-Naiko. He was speaking during the launch [...]

Builders become heated over new low-carbon regulations

| Sourced From Walesonline | AS Wales attempts to stay at the front of the race for carbon neutral housing, there is concern in the building trade about tightening regulations. From September current guidelines on sustainable housing will roll out to include every property built in the country. At the moment, targets under the Code for Sustainable Homes [...]

Home » Sci-Tech » Eco News Bacteria ‘reducing carbon emissions’

| Sourced From Zeenews | Melbourne: A previously unknown species of bacteria is saving the mining industry millions of dollars, and reducing its carbon emissions, scientists have found. A team, led by Naomi McSweeney of University of Western Australia, discovered the naturally occurring bacteria break down and remove sodium oxalate, an organic impurity produced during refining of [...]