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Porsche launches carbon offsetting program for US drivers

Green Car Congress

PCNA) has launched Porsche Impact , an online tool that links individual CO 2 emissions to specific climate projects. The available programs are focused on forest protection in the US, hydropower in Vietnam, solar energy in Mexico, and habitat preservation in Zimbabwe. Porsche Cars North America, Inc.

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UNEP: export of used cars to developing world creating significant environmental problems

Green Car Congress

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Business Leaders Call for Linking Water, Energy and Climate in Global Talks

Green Car Congress

In the examples cited in the report, biomass for biofuels has the largest and widest ranging footprint: from 24,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in the Netherlands to 143,000 m 3 per 1,000 GJ in Zimbabwe. The report, Water, Energy and Climate Change: A contribution from the business community says water, energy and climate change are inextricably linked.

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A Love Letter To My Other Woman

Creative Greenius

Bonnie doesn’t know how big and inspiration she and Tom Campbell, and Jackson Browne have been in my own activism – on stopping nuclear weapons and power, protecting public lands, justice and civil rights – and for the past decade, my work on environmental, and specifically climate action, issues.

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Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

Creative Greenius

How about if we give it to you in those big denomination Zimbabwe dollars? They sold out our climate so they could line their pockets and they’ve still got their hands out of their limo windows. Now that’s funny! Really Bob? Even MORE money for GM? Maybe some Washington Mutual stock instead?

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