Bring about an end to carbon crimes: a new pledge to cut your carbon every week


I’ve only just discovered The Guardian newspaper’s Tread Lightly campaign. It’s a wonderful idea. Every week the paper carries a new pledge for you to sign up to. All of the pledges involve ways of cutting your carbon footprint and becoming less impactful on the natural resources of the world. This week’s pledge is to switch from bottled to tap water.

Tread Lightly is a community of people, and includes a blog section where you can join in debates and share CO2-saving ideas.

The aim of the site, and the pledges, is to enable people to step up their efforts to reduce their own CO2 emissions, to track the combined efforts of the community, and provide a space in which you can be reassured you’re not the only one who cares and is willing to change.

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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

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Spring has sprung but will likely soon be gone


Winter is over. Welcome spring! But the season only just begun today is reported as becoming less distinct and likely to vanish altogether due to climate change. Enjoy it while it lasts!

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Thursday, March 20th, 2008

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