Making carbon emissions visual

Posted by Mark Jones in Monday, December 3rd 2007   
Topics: Gas Mileage Improvement devices, Gas Prices News    

As climate talks get under way in Bali there’ll be plenty of earnest discussion about the need for greater regulation and international co-operation. Important stuff, no doubt. But hard to illustrate if you’re wary of the already hackneyed shots of polar bears on stranded icebergs.
This is one of the problems with maintaining public consciousness on [...]

Kyoto for the masses?

Posted by Mark Jones in Monday, November 26th 2007   
Topics: Gas Mileage Improvement devices, Gas Prices News    

Amid all the news about climate change I’ve become curious about the size of my ‘carbon footprint’. And it’s not been hard to work it out given the huge number of online calculators available. The estimates vary but my family is apparently responsible for about 7 tonnes a year. I’m troubled by this and I’ve [...]