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Tar Sands Report – Climate Action Network Canada

Tar Sands Report – Climate Action Network Canada | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

By pinning their hopes to an ever-expanding tar sands sector, Canada and Alberta are making a bet that the world won’t move to tackle climate change. In the process, they’re squandering Canada’s chance to be a leader in the clean energy economy: while other countries are investing in wind and solar, Canada is cutting funding to renewable power and subsidizing the tar sands. Even worse, our governments’ approach ignores the consequences of climate change itself, putting people inside and outside of Canada at risk of devastating impacts that include droughts, storms, floods, and the spread of disease.

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Carbon calculators as a tool for a low-carbon everyday life?

Carbon calculators as a tool for a low-carbon everyday life? | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

The number of Internet-based carbon calculators that estimate personal carbon footprints has been growing in recent years.

This article, from Kirsten Gram-Hanssen & Toke Haunstrup Christensen of the Danish Building Research Institute, discusses the roles that these calculators can play in changing everyday practices and how users evaluate them. The study builds on results from a questionnaire survey and focus groups with users of a Danish Internet-based carbon calculator developed in 2009, the year of the Climate Summit in Copenhagen, when climate change was prominent on the political agenda.


Via Stephane Bilodeau, Hans De Keulenaer
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