People often talk as if warming temperatures are the only evidence of human-induced global climate change. But the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also has increased dramatically. For most of the past 800,000 years, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations ranged from about 180 to 280 parts per million. Today, it is 387 parts per [...]

Ernest Hemingway must be reaching for a bottle of grappa in his grave. The snows of Kilimanjaro—inspirations for a Hemingway story of the same name—could be gone by 2022, a new study confirms. The ice atop Kilimanjaro “continues to diminish right on schedule for disappearing, unfortunately, in the next couple of decades,” said glaciologist Lonnie [...]

Stripping down from 390ppm to 350ppm – that’s the target of 350.org as portrayed in last Saturday’s international day of climate change. Check out this hot video!……………

Ecopreneur recently asked Lisl Lain of Green Door Consulting to come up with an  CARBON FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR adapted for the South African conditions. This calculator quantifies your household’s carbon emissions from the three most important sources: electricity consumption, car travel and air travel. The Eskom emissions factor used is from Eskom’s 2008 report (the figure [...]

Earlier this year we caught word that the EU might force universal cell phone chargers onto manufacturers. “Force” is a little rough…more like “require them to be environmentally responsible and simply logical and quit manufacturing planned obsolescence and exclusivity into piles of plastic and wires.” Last week, a universal charger was approved by the International [...]

Activists held events around the world yesterday to mark the number they say the world needs to reach to prevent disastrous climate change: 350. The number represents 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere that some scientists say is the safe upper limit. The atmosphere currently reaches about 390 parts per [...]

For 20 years the world has managed to do very little about the greatest problem it’s ever faced. In three days time, you can help change that–and if you step up you’re going to have a lot of company! It looks like the International Day of Climate Action this Saturday October 24th will be the [...]

Trees will return to a vast eroded grassland in Uganda as Africa’s first Clean Development Mechanism forestry project evolves. An area of 2,137 hectares of grassland within Uganda’s Rwoho Central Forest Reserve, an upper watershed of Lake Victoria, will again become covered by trees after years of deforestation and erosion. This is ensured by The [...]