Archive for the 'Emissions' Category
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People Can Do It! Campaign
The Rochester group, Global Action, has undertaken a fun community awareness campaign that focuses on positive, simple actions people can take every day to reduce carbon emissions, & conserve energy and resources.
The project is called “People Can Do It!”. Dozens of ordinary Rochester residents are being photographed in action, holding a sign stating what they do to […]
Published by thefootprint on March 31st, 2008 tagged Environment, Neighbors, Energy, Green living, Emissions | Comment now »
A Peek at Peak Oil
Rochester Izaak Walton League Presents
Norm Erickson: “A Peek at Peak Oil”
Please join us on 4 March 2008 at 7:00pm at the Izaak Walton League Cabin, 937 7th Ave NE, Rochester, MN (Directions: From North Broadway to 14th St NE, turn right on 7th Ave NE).
Norm Erickson a long time IKE and IBM employee has been […]
Published by thefootprint on February 26th, 2008 tagged Environment, Energy, Peak oil, Transportation, Emissions | Comment now »
Homeowners Energy Expo
HOMEOWNERS ENERGY EXPO
The MAYO ENERGY CONSERVATION OPERATION (ECO) invites you to attend the HEE on
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20TH
7:00 PM (doors open at 6:45)
MAYO HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM AND DOOR 1 FOYER
If you’re looking for valuable, practical ideas to lower your energy consumption costs and want to focus on the importance of individual responsibility for energy conservation, please […]
Published by thefootprint on February 6th, 2008 tagged Environment, Energy, Green living, Emissions | Comment now »
Reducing Personal Emissions
On June 1 I will start a venture in reducing my personal carbon emissions by 90% of what the average person in the US consumes - the approximate amount people in the rich world need to reduce by in order to avoid the worst effects of global warming. I won’t bore you with all […]
Published by Miranda on May 30th, 2007 tagged Emissions | 3 Comments »
Low Impact Week
Crunchy Chicken has set up a challenge for the first week of June. A Low Impact Week.
http://crunchychicken.blogspot.com/search/label/low%20impact%20week
Here are the guidelines for Low Impact Week from her site. There are seven areas of impact listed below, each one with several action items for you to choose.
These action items were chosen as itens to be relatively easy […]