Carbon Neutral

Environmental Protection Paperwork: What’s it worth?

Chrystal Carbon Neutral, Climate Change, Emissions, Environment, Global Warming, History, Sustainability August 3, 2021July 31, 2021CMA, CMP, Conference of the Parties, COP, Doha Amendment, IPCC, Kyoto Protocol, Montreal Protocol, Paris Agreement, UNEP, UNFCC, Vienna Convention, WMO, World Meteorological Organization

Failure to plan is a plan to fail. And indeed, for several decades there have been many plans set in motion for trying to ensure Mother Earth and her inhabitants can continue to survive and thrive, against

Turning Unrecyclable Plastic and Other Waste into Hydrogen is Doable

Len Rosen Carbon Neutral, Emissions, Energy Consumption, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Technology July 20, 2021July 20, 202121stcentech, Element Two, green hydrogen, hydrogen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL, pyrolysis, Ways2H Inc

In a recent report from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) looking at how the State of California can achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 through negative emissions, researchers have set a goal to remove 125 million tons

5 Big Businesses Turning Green

Chrystal Carbon Footprint, Carbon Neutral, Carbon Offsetting, Carbon Sequestration, Electricity, Emissions, Energy Usage, Sustainability August 4, 2020August 4, 2020Ambition 2030, Apple, carbon engineering, Carbon removal, Cornell University, Huvudroll, IKEA, Loop reusable packaging, Microsoft, Natura &Co, P&G, perovskite, Procter & Gamble, Project Gigaton, Starbucks, Terracycle, Transform to Net Zero, Unilever, Walmart

There is no shortage of companies who are suddenly using phrases like carbon neutral, net zero, climate positive, and carbon negative in their marketing and communications. But how much of that is buzz and how much is backed by action? As consumers, we have to get smarter. We have to understand that simply throwing a ‘green’ or ‘eco’ phrase onto some packaging does not make the product, nor the company, an environmental or sustainability warrior. We have to dig deeper than that, to look beneath the words to see that there’s substance. And happily we can report that plenty of companies aren’t just paying the climate lip service – 23% of Fortune 500 companies have actual, robust and ambitious climate goals. This is largely due to the fact that we, the consumer, ARE digging deeper, and ARE expecting more from the companies we hand over our cash to. Great work, swrmers! So dive in to find out what some of the biggest global corporations are doing.

Building a Better Future – the construction industry’s emissions

Eric Carbon Footprint, Carbon Neutral, Sustainability February 25, 2020July 29, 2020Builders for Climate Action, cellulose insulation, construction, embodied carbon, LEED certification, operational carbon, plant based building materials, recycled steel, sustainable wood, the construction industry

The construction industry in the United States has seen a steady increase over the last 10 years. By 2023 it is expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 4.9% and be responsible for $1.8 billion in transactions. As such a major force in the global market the industry is starting to garner more attention for environmental improvements. Right now construction and buildings account for 39% of all CO2 emissions annually. Builders for Climate Action, a respected organization pushing to make sustainable changes in the construction industry, suggests practices which can be built into a building’s design stage to not only reduce, but absorb, carbon emissions.

How sustainable is your office building?

Eric Carbon Neutral, Electricity, Energy Usage, Sustainability December 17, 2019July 29, 2020CarbonNeutral certification, Cliff House Restaurant, EPA, Le Botaniste, LEED certification, Natural Capital Partners, US Green Building Council

Sustainable building depicted by silhouette filled with leaves

Human reliance on fossil fuel energy continues to steadily grow. The impacts of this are found in nearly every aspect of our existence, from transportation to construction and even food production. A large portion of our energy

How to live Carbon Neutral

Ben Carbon Footprint, Carbon Neutral, Sustainability September 6, 2019September 3, 2019Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Neutral, Carbon Offsetting, Climate Action, Climate Change, Climate crisis, Climate Science, Environment, Sustainability

Our journey to sustainability is full of challenges, excitement, stumbles and successes. Not everyone follows the same path but the goal is the same: to become Carbon Neutral. There are several variations on the definition, but essentially