Tag archive: Carbon

How much carbon are you responsible for pumping into the atmosphere on a given day? You could rely on broad statistics from any number of environmental groups, you could fail to care altogether, or you could actually get yourself a close estimate with Clear Standards’ new Carbon Tracker app for the iPhone, released on Thursday. Using the phone’s built-in GPS capability, Carbon Tracker logs your movements throughout the day,… Read More

Today Click4Carbon moves out of beta, letting everyone use the UK-based search engine and also lower their carbon footprint. The for-profit company is actually a portal to Google, meaning the world’s favorite search engine provides the results, and the ad revenue is shared with Click4Carbon, which uses them to fund reforestation projects through the Plant-A-Tree-Today Foundation. Put together by John and Claire Russell,… Read More

Google has teamed with the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs in the UK to give users a chance to calculatetheir carbon footprints.   The UK Carbon Footprint Project will “help people find information that matters to them quicklyand easily. Through the UK Carbon Footprint Project we make information on calculating and reducing your carbon footprint, as well as information on climate change in the UK, easily accessible… Read More

Video game publisher Electronic Arts has announced that the latest installment in its Need for Speed racing franchis, Need for Speed Carbon, will be available in U.S. retail stores this week. And EA isn't skimping on platform support: Need for Speed Carbon is available today for Xbox 360, Xbox, GameCube, and PlayStation2, and versions will be available for Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as soon as those consoles… Read More

Sharing the same unique, ultra-slim and tapered design and boasting a battery life of up to 20 hours like the Rio Carbon, the Rio ce2100 features a 2.5GB1 hard disk drive that is capable of holdingup to 40 hours of MP3 (80 hours WMA) music2. Customers now have a choice in the amount of music or audiobooks that can easily slide into their pockets with the Rio ce2100 or the Rio Carbon.Additionally, Rio is also introducing a second color for the… Read More