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Carbon-offsetting: All credit to them (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:35
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In the remote village of Bannapur, in northern India, Ram Dyal shows me the tiny patch of farmland from which he scrapes a living. This arid plot, less than an acre, must produce enough vegetables to feed his wife and four children, and, hopefully, something to sell on market day.
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Julia Stephenson: The Green Goddess (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2007 at 06:00:35
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The latest creative eco-doom statistic informs us that the waste created in Britain over Christmas is equivalent to 400,000 double-decker buses, stretching all the way from London to New York City. Not only that, but if every family reused just 2ft of holiday ribbon, the 38,000 miles of ribbon saved could tie a bow around the entire planet (according to Robert Lilienfeld, co-author of the book Use Less Stuff: environmental solutions for who we really are).
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