Building powered by cooking oil

It may not seem like it, but used cooking oil could be the world's next hot commodity. PriceWaterhouseCoopers, a London-based accountancy firm, is buying up as much of it as it can, using the oil as fuel to power its offices. The new headquarters is now one of the most eco-friendly buildings in London.

Is Human Waste the New Coal?

Dean Kamen visits a power plant that is taking human excrement and turning it in to a burnable fuel supply with 66% more power per ounce than coal! The manufacturing process takes a day as opposed to centuries.  If all the waste treatment facilities in America made e-fuel, we would reduce carbon emissions by an astonishing 6.5 million tons a year.  That's the equivalent of taking more than a million cars off the road.

How to Live like a Pioneer

If leg warmers could make a comeback, then so can the eco-friendly ways of our forefathers. See if you have what it takes to turn back the clock and rock the less-is-more trend.

How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint on Howcast

Your carbon footprint is how many greenhouse gases you release in your daily activities. Be remembered by your good deeds, not your carbon emissions.

You Will Need

• Deep concern for the future
• Sense of personal responsibility

Step 1: Turn thermostat up/down

Turn your thermostat up in the summer or down in the winter by just two degrees, and you’ll prevent hundreds of pounds of carbon dioxide from being released each year.

Close doors to rooms that you are not using to maximize heating and air conditioning. Insulate windows and doors to save even more heating costs.

Step 2: Unplug electronics

Turn off and unplug your computer, TV, and other electronics when you’re not using them. Even electronics in sleep mode draw power.

Leaving your TV cable box on 24 hours a day uses about 65% as much energy as a standard refrigerator.

Step 3: Change bulbs

Change all the incandescent bulbs in your home to compact fluorescent bulbs, which use about 75% less energy.

Step 4: Do full loads of laundry/dishwashing

Do your laundry or run a dishwasher only when you have a full load. It saves water and it’s an excuse not to clean.

Step 5: Eat local

Eat local: An organic out-of-season vegetable from the other side of the world may sound delicious, but it had to make that trip on a huge container ship.

Take a canvas tote with you shopping, so you have a ready – and better – answer to the question “paper or plastic?”

Step 6: Bring own coffee cup/mug

Bring your own cup or mug when you buy coffee and stop tossing an average of 20 pounds of disposable cups a year.

Step 7: Cut back on bottled water

Cut back on bottled water. Most tap water is perfectly safe to drink, and making the plastic and transporting the bottles uses huge quantities of fossil fuels.

Step 8: Plant a tree

Plant a tree. Trees help reduce greenhouse gases, and every one counts. Consider it a peace offering to the Earth.

Step 9: Consolidate car trips

Don’t jump in your car every time you feel the urge to run an errand. Plan and consolidate your trips to cut down on gas.

Step 10: Carpool, public transportation, bike, or walk

When you can, carpool, use public transportation, or ride your bicycle. Or walk, proud to be treading lightly.

Cattle produce as much as 37% of the atmosphere’s methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Share . ReUse . Be Green . Save the World!

Best way to help save the environment is to re-use and share the stuff we already have. If we manage to increase the efficiency of the things we already have and bring down the consumption, it will have an instant impact on reducing the carbon footprint. Learn more about re-use and sharing through person to person renting at http://www.rentalic.com

Carbon Footprint Art

Here is a lovely artistic animation inspired by the idea of carbon footprints.

Do you think it gets a message across?

How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

A friendly and easy step-by-step description of ways to reduce your carbon footprint.