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- 2 Get blueprints for a green house. Locke, Laura // Time;4/9/2007, Vol. 169 Issue 15, p70
The article covers the impact of housing on greenhouse gas emissions. Residential energy use contributes to 16% of total emissions. The suggestion is that building houses that are environmentally friendly from the start of construction is the most cost efficient and effective. Several options...
- 2 Get blueprints for a green house. Locke, Laura // Time International (South Pacific Edition);4/9/2007, Issue 13, p48
The article covers the impact of housing on greenhouse gas emissions. Residential energy use contributes to 16% of total emissions. The suggestion is that building houses that are environmentally friendly from the start of construction is the most cost efficient and effective. Several options...
- Copenhagen: the Road to Success. Flavin, Christopher // World Watch;Nov/Dec2009, Vol. 22 Issue 6, p2
The article presents the author's views on global warming. The author says that while scientists report accelerated Arctic melting and warn that the world is already perilously close to overshooting the maximum safe level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, climate negotiations are proceeding...
- If Kyoto Is Bad, Why Is Corporate America Playing Along? // Environmental Forum;Nov/Dec2005, Vol. 22 Issue 6, p18
This article argues the compliance of the Kyoto Protocols, which addresses the problems related to global warming by reducing emissions of the greenhouse gases, by U.S. multinational companies (MNCs). It is reported that most of the U.S. MNCs are already complying these protocols as these...
- Discussion on low-carbon economy and low-carbon building technology. Xiao-Gen Shuai; Hui-Qiang Li // Natural Science;Jun2009, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p37
The paper introduced low-carbon economy and low-carbon technology, and proposed the detailed technical measures of low-carbon building technology. Moreover, it has quantitatively calculated the "implicit" CO2 emission of C40 and C50 concrete columns, aluminium curtain wall, wall paintings and...
- The Trading Game. Bradbury, Danny // Alternatives Journal;Oct2005, Vol. 31 Issue 4/5, p18
The article examines the emergence of the inventive concept of Canada to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the carbon trading systems. The concept will address greenhouse gases as tradable articles of commerce, granting large polluters to purchase and trade pollution credits in order to...
- Characterisation Factors for Greenhouse Gases at a Midpoint Level Including Indirect Effects Based on Calculations with the IMAGE Model. Brakke, Karin W.; Huijbregts, Mark A. J.; Eickhout, Bas; Hendriks, A. Jan; van de Meent, Dik // International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment;May2008, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p191
Background, Aims and Scope. The traditional method of using Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) to assess the effects of climate change in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) does not account for indirect atmospheric effects like saturation effects and emissions of ozone precursors. The aim of this paper...
- CARBON TRADING Doesn't Work. S. R. // Wired;Jun2008, Vol. 16 Issue 6, p162
The author discusses the Kyoto Project, a clean development mechanism that aims to keep the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by the 2012 by slowing down the rise of carbon emissions. This project aims to lessen greenhouse effect that causes worldwide global warming due to carbon dioxide...
- MAKING HISTORY IN THE NORTHEAST. // National Wildlife;Apr/May2006, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p56
The article reports that despite political pressure to abandon the effort, seven Northeast states have agreed to take action to reduce global warming pollution from power plants. The governors of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont announced in...
