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New Fight Over Trees as Offsets: Energy-guzzling companies hope to get carbon credits and avoid obligations to make costlier emission cuts by paying forest owners to preserve trees that might not have been at risk of destruction. — Wall Street Journal About That Hydrogen Funding: “There […] Read more »

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Farm Groups Win Battle for Offset Oversight: In a major victory for agriculture groups and defeat for environmental organizations that hoped the EPA would win authority to set rules for agriculture-based carbon offsets, lawmakers agreed last night to give the lead oversight role to the Agriculture […] Read more »

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During the hectic holiday season and its multitude of inconveniences, like delayed flights, icy roads and traffic jams, it’s easy for travelers to forget about the impact their travel has on the environment. But some early-adopter airlines have started to offer carbon offsets for travelers concerned […] Read more »

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UN Climate Chief Calls Progress in Poznan Too Slow for Comprehensive Treaty in ’09: Delegates from 190 countries at the UN’s climate talks in Poznan, Poland this week planned to sign a treaty at a conference in Copenhagen next year, finalizing an agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas […] Read more »

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Goldman Sachs recognizes that the new economy is a carbon-constrained one, and today the firm announced that it is taking an undisclosed stake in and partnering with emissions offsets developer Blue Source. Under the terms of the alliance, Goldman Sachs will structure and market a broad […] Read more »

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The days of cheap and easy carbon credit projects are over, according to a new report from energy research firm New Carbon Finance. Specifically, abatement projects for two very potent greenhouse gases — HFC-23 and N2O — have been almost entirely tapped out because offsetting these […] Read more »

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YouTube has unveiled a new tool, Video Annotations, which, according to YouTube, allows creators to: Add background information about the video Create stories with multiple possibilities (viewers click to the next scene) Link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video Annotations […] Read more »

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Twitter, in a post on its blog, has acknowledged that it’s been having problems. It attributes some (not all) of them to so-called “popular” users that it says overloaded the system when they sent updates in too quick a succession. In other words, it was a […] Read more »

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Worrying about your household’s carbon emissions is so last month ago– have you given any thought to your avatar’s carbon footprint? That’s actually a serious question: the larger virtual worlds and MMOs require thousands of servers to run, and that expends enormous amounts of electricity. I […] Read more »

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For those of you who work with wikis on a regular basis know, they can be a hard concept to explain to people.  This is why PBWiki has been a blessing for us.  Their funny name stems from their intent to make the concept of a […] Read more »

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Fujitsu barely got the ink to dry on their Santa Rosa-based Tablet PC introduction, the Lifebook T4220, and LAPTOP magazine already has a review up. LAPTOP gives the T4220 a four-out-of-five star rating and seemed generally pleased with performance on the new Intel platform. What was […] Read more »

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U.S. exporters claim the yuan is as much as 40 percent undervalued, making Chinese goods unfairly cheap. US government is making menacing noises, and if the worst case scenario does play out, it will buy some respite for US broadband equipment providers, but barely. More Read more »

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Cisco it seems is playing loose-and-fast in order to win business for its VoIP unit, which admittedly has come under intense pressure from rivals such as Avaya. The company has been exposed in a “rigging scandal” in ” in its hometown of San Jose, Calif., over […] Read more »