Fact: Turning the brightness on your monitor down 10% can reduce 20% of the monitor’s energy use!

Written By: Lloyd Alter, Toronto, July 28th 2009

Yes, we know carbon offsets are controversial; Mike started his post The David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute Publish a Ranking of Carbon Offset Companies with a disclaimer about them. But I sometimes have to fly, and when I do, I buy offsets from ZeroFootprint. I was very disappointed to see how badly they scored in the report,

Fact: Air drying your dishes could save 15%-50% of dishwasher energy usage!

Fact: The average cost of eight glasses of water from your faucet every day would cost around 49 cents a year. The same amount of bottled water would cost around $1,400.

Fact: Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on iPods or movie tickets - $15 billion!

Another look has been taken by the Environmental Magazine looking at the rating system of the Pebmina Institute.

In a guide purporting to rate and rank carbon offset providers in Canada and abroad, the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF) and Pembina Institute have rejected internationally accepted carbon reduction standards in favor of subjective criteria that have no bearing on whether or

Fact: For every kilogram of coal burned, three kilograms of greenhouse gases (mostly carbon dioxide) enter the atmosphere.

Companies face increasing pressure from governments, competitors, and employees to play a leading role in addressing a wide array of environmental, social, and governance issues-ranging from climate change to obesity to human rights-in a company's supply chain. Over the past 30 years, most of them have responded by developing corporate social responsibility or sustainability initiatives

On Saturday July 18th there was the launch party of Franke James new book titled Bothered by my Green Conscience, where Ron Dembo CEO of Zerofootprint spoke about how here at ZFP we are making Roots Green.

Ron Dembo spoke persuasively about the urgent need for action on climate change. He also introduced me and talked about my book - and the usefulness of my work as a storyteller in

Fact: Your dryer is responsible for nearly 7% of an average Ontario home’s electricity use, that creates 163kg of CO2 per year.