Archive for March 9th, 2008

Not an easy task

9th 2008f March, 2008, Peter

And measuring carbon footprints is no cakewalk, as explained in this article about Cisco UK’s efforts to measure the emissions impact of its activities and those of its staff.
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Let’s forget the moralizing, and focus on the numbers

9th 2008f March, 2008, Peter

The New Yorker magazine has an interesting article by Michael Specter on the science and ethics of measuring carbon footprints.
For some reason, many environmentalists have a bias in favour of local consumption, and against the consumption of goods that have traveled a long distance between their place of production and their place [...]