It's easy to get involved in the fight against climate change. You can
start by measuring your climate impact and then managing your
environmental footprint.
Brighter Planet
allows you to watch your carbon footprint with an online tool
assessment that prompts you to answer questions, and a sophisticated
emissions model tells you what your footprint is. You can watch it
change over time as you learn to live a more carbon-free life. The site
also offers energy conservation tips and emission-reducing strategies
and lets visitors share their ideas and experiences. [
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With the recent bankruptcy filings of six airlines (ATA, Oasis Hong
Kong, Aloha, Skybus, Frontier and Champion) in the past two weeks, the
issues of climate change and peak oil dominate media reporting. Local
journalists are
calling transportation planners and policy-makers to task,
suggesting that their focus should not be committing more resources to
infrastructure developments that support the airline industry as it
exists today. Air travel has been subsidized by government, but
environmental
realities can no longer be ignored.[
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