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Walmart’s Impact (3)

Wal­mart, the largest US-retailer, makes another move to get more sus­tain­able. This time the tar­gets are spe­cific pop­u­lar prod­uct cat­e­gories and their sup­pli­ers. Sup­pli­ers are asked to exam­ine and reduce their car­bon foot­print by using less energy, less pack­ag­ing, more effi­cient processes, etc. It sounds good and it is good, at least in my opinion. […]

Pop Rocks, Soda, And Yeast

What do Pop Rocks, Soda, and yeast have in com­mon? Car­bon diox­ide (CO2) is behind their most sig­nif­i­cant char­ac­ter­is­tics. Pop Rocks, the candy that pops in your mouth, uses pres­sur­ized CO2 for the pop, car­bon­a­tion is used in water, beer and Soda to pro­vide the prick­ling sen­sa­tion. And car­bon diox­ide gen­er­ated by a process using […]

Sucking Little Critters

1.13 Bil­lion new cell phones were sold in 2009! More than 1 Bil­lion power adapters or charg­ers got into consumer’s hands. And many of them  leave them plugged into a power out­let all the time, regard­less if the phone needs to be charged or not. As reported else­where these lit­tle devices con­sume energy all the time […]

Carbon Capture And Storage – Convince Me, Please

A widely dis­cussed con­cept to reduce car­bon emis­sions into the atmos­phere is CCS – Car­bon Cap­ture and Stor­age. Espe­cially coal fueled power plants could be recon­fig­ured to blast car­bon diox­ide not into the air but store the stuff safely into deep geo­log­i­cal for­ma­tions. As with many ideas for emis­sion reduc­tion research in this area is […]

Cap And Trade

Cap and Trade is one of these ideas that sound good. But when exe­cuted poorly it does not ben­e­fit our planet, instead it ben­e­fits the same kind of gam­blers that brought us the near finan­cial col­lapse and the fol­low­ing big reces­sion. What is the idea behind Cap and Trade? — Cap sets a limit for […]