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CO2 emission mapping of continental US

A new map service is offering more than 100 times the detail of previous inventories of carbon dioxide being emitted in the continental United States.

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Now fresh water without high emission bottles

To conform to the marketing-imposed fashion to drink bottled water on the hoof, consumers greatly add to a number of other problems such as landfill capacity, littering and carbon dioxide emissions.

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Personal carbon counter coming by year's end

A personal carbon counter developed by a consortium under EU sponsorship will be marketed in New Zealand before the end of this year.

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Auto industry authority: hydrogen fuel may be viable

BMW says that the influential J.D. "Dave" Power III, founder of J.D. Power and Associates and board member of Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc., is the latest high-visibility eco-friendly ambassador to...

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Ten users per computer idea takes 5000 car-equivalent off the road

A Canadian company claims that in the past year its software, which allows up to 10 people to work from one computer, has saved 29,000 tons of CO2 emissions, the equivalent of taking more than 5000...

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Now for the world's first hybrid rubbish truck

Volvo is testing two hybrid refuse trucks in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells.

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Wanganui firm pioneering organic engineering parts

A quest to substitute naphtha derived plastic production engineering components for organic ones is under way at Axiam, a Wanganui high precision engineer better known internationally than it is here.

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If you send more e-mail do you produce less carbon?

Research currently underway at Sun Microsystems is trying to measure the carbon footprint of individual e-mails, BusinessGreen reports.

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Waihopai attack might hurt big global warming probe

The attack on the satellite earth station at Waihope, near Blenheim, could have imperiled New Zealand participation in what many believe to be the most sensitive and complex scientific study of global...

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$200,000 grant backs computer collection scheme

A community collection scheme for keeping end-of-life home computers out of landfills has been backed by a $200,000 grant from the Government's Sustainable Management Fund.

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Capital developer creating 'first true green building'

Leading restoration developer Ian Cassells is highlighting New Zealand's "phony" approach to green building by developing the country's first office-as-a-village, which will eliminate car emissions by...

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Petrify, liquefy: New ways to bury greenhouse gas

Turn greenhouse gases to stone? Transform them into a treacle-like liquid deep under the seabed? The ideas may sound like far-fetched schemes from an alchemist's notebook, but scientists are pursuing...

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Now for the hydrogen powered cellphone

The French have invented a hydrogen powered cellphone

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Technical and supply tangles tripping up electric car plans

Technical and supply issues are standing in the way of a Government target to have hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles in use here in the next seven years.

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Comms company looks to install solar panels on customers' roofs

Cox Communications has announced initiatives to cut energy costs that include adding solar electricity to its headquarters and communications system and increasing fuel efficiency in its fleet vehicles.

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Advisory group looking at incentives for electric vehicle buyers

The Ministry of Transport's Vehicle Energy and Renewables Group (VERG) is looking at ways of creating incentives for manufacturers to bring significant numbers of electric vehicles into New Zealand.

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Funding talks underway to start New Zealand electric car industry

EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand could soon be building its own electric cars.

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Business leaders: ETS fuels delay means incentives needed to buy electric...

Business leaders yesterday welcomed a Carbon News report that Ministry of Transport officials are investigating options for incentives to encourage people to buy low-emission vehicles.

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Kitchen experiment leads to plastic bag recycling breakthrough

A kitchen experiment has led a Christchurch (New Zealand) man to a solution for one of the world's biggest environmental problems - how to dispose of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag.

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Ace Rentals trialing clean-fuel device already subject to ConsumerNZ doubts

One of the country's car rental firms announced yesterday it is trialing a device which is says is new and cuts nitrous oxide and particulate exhaust emissions. However, it did not say the Consumers...

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