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Running shoes leave large carbon footprint, study shows
23 May 2013: A typical pair of synthetic trainers generates 30lbs of emissions, equivalent to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for a week
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Guardian Professional, 12 Sep 2013:CDP analysis reveal lack of action on emissions by top FTSE Global 500 corporations, writes Jo Confino
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15 Jun 2013:
Simon Hattenstone: 'I've lived the life of an ecological vampire, but not any more'
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10 Jun 2013:
This year's People & Planet Green League shows that most universities are making a real effort to become more sustainable. But the worrying exception is in the area of investment policies. Anna Bawden reports
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23 May 2013: A typical pair of synthetic trainers generates 30lbs of emissions, equivalent to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for a week
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21 Apr 2013:
How much more is so-called green energy adding to my energy bill?
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17 Apr 2013:
Despite the clean technology of the past decade, we continue to extract and burn fossil fuels more than ever before
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12 Apr 2013:
Yale Environment 360: The Danish capital is moving rapidly toward a zero-carbon future, as it erects windfarms, transforms its citywide heating systems, promotes energy efficiency, and lures more people out of their cars and onto public transportation and bikes
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11 Mar 2013: Best-selling fruit will take four days to reach supermarket against 24 days from central America – but won't be Fairtrade
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24 Feb 2013:
This year I've gone without heating apart from the rare use of a wood-burning stove. Friends and family take a dim view of this. Can you back up my assertion that my way is the ethical way?
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13 Feb 2013:
Two new studies released after president's state-of-the-union promise to act on climate change with or without Congress
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31 Jan 2013:
Leo Hickman: A University of East Anglia economist has provoked debate by arguing that flying within Europe has 'no impact on total emissions'
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12 Jan 2013:
Can today's eco-warriors recapture the ferocious energy of the 1990s anti-roads protests? As a huge road-building programme gears up, a new wave of activists are taking up the fight
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16 Dec 2012: We all know the stories of vast road crews, fleets of HGVs and planes jetting rock stars round the globe. This can't be green. Should I stop going to gigs?
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7 Dec 2012:
Gigatons of CO2. Global temperature rises. Carbon budgets. What does it all mean?
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30 Nov 2012:
Anne Karpf: Anne Karpf is not a climate-change sceptic, she's a climate-change ignorer. She knows it's happening – the floods, Arctic ice melt, Hurricane Sandy – but after a flash of fear, helplessness takes over and she 'tunes out'. Read her confessions
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