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Eco Friendly January 24, 2023 posted by Nigel

Brimstone – the world’s first carbon negative portland cement

Californian company Brimstone has announced the development of the world’s first carbon negative cement product. It’s a bold statement, and if true could revolutionize the global building industry and lead to a new era of carbon neutral construction. Cement is a big deal. Every year and estimated 4.4 billion tons of the stuff is produced to craft our buildings. But there’s a hidden cost to the environment. If cement was a country, it would be the third largest CO2 emitter…

general April 10, 2020 posted by Donyae Coles

Urban Areas Can’t Get Enough Trees – for new trees planted, others are removed

Everyone is agreement that planting trees is a good idea but urban areas are having trouble meeting goals. Not because they’re not planting, but because the trees are removed before they can reach maturity. Finding a way to overcome this issue is key to meeting environmental targets.

Eco Friendly January 20, 2020 posted by Donyae Coles

How Many Trees? – to get the most benefit against emissions

One of the ways that we can capture carbon from the air is by planting more trees. They do the job naturally all while giving us delicious oxygen. They’re great! It’s not new information that planting trees will help but many people have asked, how many do we need? Well, turns out the answer is, kind of a lot.

Eco Friendly January 20, 2020 posted by Donyae Coles

Microsoft To Become Carbon Negative – company to remove as much carbon as it has ever created

Microsoft has pledged to remove all carbon that it has put into the environment as a company by the year 2050. Again, all the carbon they have created since 1975. That’s 45 years worth of carbon that they are pledging to pull out of the air plus ending their own current output.

Eco Friendly December 6, 2019 posted by Donyae Coles

IKEA Parent Company Commits To Green – plans for sustainability for its company go big over next decade

Shop guilt free at IKEA in the future as the parent company of the popular furniture store is ramping up its plans to become carbon neutral over the next decade. They’ll be pouring £171 million into green energy and sustainable practices.

Eco Friendly November 22, 2019 posted by Donyae Coles

Labour Proposes Radical Idea – remove corporations from Stock Exchange who don’t clean up

In a radical move, the Labour party plans to de-list companies who do not take action on climate change if they are a source of emissions or other risk factors, from the Stock Exchange. This sort of drastic approach to force companies to take responsibility is becoming more common and may be what is needed to turn the tide on the issue.

Eco Friendly June 28, 2019 posted by Donyae Coles

Carbon to Product – captured carbon to be used in creating new products

Carbon capture is an awesome idea but you may wonder, what are we doing with all the carbon after we keep it from getting into the atmosphere? Well, hopefully, the answer will soon be “it’s recycled to make a ton of useful products.” Captured carbon will be refined and used to make thing we use everyday.

Eco Friendly June 24, 2019 posted by Donyae Coles

Tiny Gardens – start your own green space, no matter how small

Green spaces help you feel better and help your air stay fresh. Even if you live in a urban environment, you can still build yourself a little oasis. Whether you plant flowers or food, having some green space is good for you. This article shares some fast tips for building your own mini gardens.

Eco Friendly June 24, 2019 posted by Donyae Coles

Just BioFiber – hemp brick building alternative

What if your whole house was a carbon capture? Just the place you live, sleep at night, avoid other people was itself a way to help clean up CO2? Seems like a science fiction dream right? Well it’s closer to reality than you would think with the building materials from Just BioFiber.

Eco Friendly April 4, 2019 posted by Donyae Coles

New Carbon Capture Process Finds Funding – good news for reaching carbon goals

In order to get the climate numbers where we need them to you know, not die, scientists have said that not just making changes to our carbon output is needed but also carbon capture. To this end, Carbon Engineering has developed a process that is effective at removing carbon from the air.

Eco Friendly March 11, 2019 posted by Donyae Coles

Saving Wetlands – marsh mud can help fight climate change

Wetlands have been under threat since forever. Seriously, I remember cleaning them up in elementary school and I am. . . far away from that time in my life. How far? Not important, but it’s been awhile. Aside from the natural beauty and amazing habitats they provide, we can add one more reason to keep them going: they’re important to the fight against climate change.

Eco Friendly March 5, 2019 posted by Donyae Coles

CO2 Gas into Coal – new procedure turns gas back into solid state

What to do with the greenhouse gases that we manage to capture has been a question that has various answers, none that are really perfect. New research has a possible solution. Why not just turn it back to a solid before we store it away? In a new process, scientist turn CO2 from gas back into coal.

Eco Friendly March 4, 2019 posted by Donyae Coles

Carbon Capture – new program kicks off in the UK

Carbon capture is a process that gets some attention in the discussion of climate change. It is exactly as it sounds, capturing carbon that is released from the process of burning fuels. The UK carbon capture process has kicked off and hopefully it proves successful.

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