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How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything

by Mike Berners-Lee  · 12 May 2010  · 264pp  · 71,821 words

by Jessica Sullivan Cover photograph by John Sherlock Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West Contents Introduction A quick guide to carbon and carbon footprints Under 10 grams A text message A cup of tap water A web search Walking through a door An email Drying your hands A plastic

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fill it. The article never happened, and it’s probably just as well. Since then I have looked long and hard into all kinds of carbon footprints and carried out numerous studies, including one for a supermarket chain. This book is here to answer that journalist’s questions, and many more

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fine low-carbon food, though not totally free from sustainability issues to keep an eye on—see A banana. A quick guide to carbon and carbon footprints Carbon footprint is a lovely phrase that is horribly abused.1 I want to make my definition clear at the outset. Throughout this book, I’m using

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terms of the amount of carbon dioxide that would have the same impact.3 Beware carbon toe-prints The most common abuse of the phrase carbon footprint is to miss out some or even most of the emissions caused, whatever activity or item is being discussed. For example, many online carbon

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calculator websites will tell you that your carbon footprint is a certain size based purely on your home energy and personal travel habits, while ignoring all of the goods and services you purchase. Similarly

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, a magazine publisher might claim to have measured its carbon footprint but in doing so looked only at its office and cars while ignoring the much greater emissions caused by the printing house that produces the

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magazines themselves. These kinds of carbon footprints are actually more like carbon “toe-prints”—they don’t give the full picture. FIGURE 1.1: The footprint of a lifestyle is bigger

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its toe-print. Direct and indirect emissions Much of the confusion around footprints comes down to the distinction between “direct” and “indirect” emissions. The true carbon footprint of a plastic toy, for example, includes not only direct emissions resulting from the manufacturing process and the transportation of the toy to the store

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kilograms, and tonnes (metric tons). For this North American edition, I have continued to use grams, kilos and tons of CO2e as my units for carbon footprints, since that allows us to use a decimal scale that allows a straightforward comparison of impacts. However, I have added some conversions for clarity—in

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particular, I have given the pound equivalents for measurements in kilograms. So, for example, the carbon footprint of asparagus is described in kg CO2e per pound. I have not, however, offered any conversions to most of the measurements in grams. One gram

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. In the U.S., for example, the provision and disposal of household water accounts for less than third of a percent of the national carbon footprint.4 Climate change looks set to cause serious water stress in some places while other areas are going to have plenty. Interestingly, if our cup

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anyone wishing to chalk up their recommended five servings of fruit and vegetables per day. There are three main reasons that bananas have such low carbon footprints compared with the nourishment they provide: > They are grown in natural sunlight—no hot-housing required. > They keep well, so although they are often

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, you could feed yourself for just over 1 kg CO2e per day, or less than 500 kg CO2e per year. Seasonal vegetables have small carbon footprints because they avoid all of the main greenhouse gas sources for food: they are grown in natural conditions without artificial heat, they don’t go

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paper has to be manufactured. For these reasons, throwing your paper in the general waste more than doubles its footprint.13 FIGURE 4.3: The carbon footprint of a weekend newspaper. Sending paper to landfills causes methane emissions and means that more carbon-intensive virgin paper has to be produced. Opting for

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middle, coming from a mixture of coal, gas (which is less polluting than coal but is still a fossil fuel), nuclear (which has a low carbon footprint but is contentious in other ways), and a smattering of renewables. The mix is significantly cleaner in Canada but varies hugely between provinces.17 Most

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people who think about carbon footprints are used to the idea that each unit we consume causes a fixed quantity of CO2 emissions. However, the truth is somewhat more complex than

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wind turbines, etc.) ** e.g. the carbon cost or savings of each unit of electricity you choose to use or save TABLE 4.1: The carbon footprint of electricity consumption in different countries. The marginal demand column shows that, unless you live in Iceland, someone somewhere is likely to have to burn

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on budget flights Unless you are deliberately investing in something that reduces emissions elsewhere, it is just about impossible to spend money without increasing your carbon footprint. Everything causes ripples of economic activity and, with it, emissions. So with wealth comes carbon responsibility. I’m hardly the first person to have

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trucking it hundreds of miles to and from distribution centers) seems like a good idea. My instinct is that milk delivery services probably cut carbon footprints by keeping the weight of our shopping bags down and therefore making it that much easier to walk to the store for everything else. In

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on the location of the farm and the breed of cow. Nobody has yet properly worked out how all these variables interact. If the carbon footprint were the only consideration, the unpleasant truth is that the most efficient thing to do would probably be to keep cattle in small indoor spaces

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of demonstrating at every step of the journey from farm to shop that no contamination with conventional milk has taken place. FIGURE 4.7: The carbon footprint of locally sourced milk in a plastic bottle at the checkout of Booths Supermarkets. In this example, the milk comes from Bowland Fresh, a local

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But the bigger savings relate to drying. As the numbers above show, for a typical 40°C (104°F) wash nearly three-quarters of the carbon footprint comes from the drying rather than the washing. Tumble driers generally use electricity to generate heat. This is more than twice as carbon intensive as

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that they belch out methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than CO2. The result is that beef and lamb have around double the carbon footprint per kilogram of meat compared with that from pigs. Component Grams CO2e * * * Beef (108 g) 1,910 (4.2 lbs.) * * * Cheese (20 g) 250 * * *

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g) 50 * * * Salad (20 g) 10 * * * Condiments (20 g) 80 * * * Cooking and transport 200 (approx.) * * * total 2,500 (5.5 lbs.) * * * TABLE 5.1: The carbon footprint of a 4-ounce cheeseburger. A further consideration is that excessive demand for meat provides an incentive for deforestation because it raises the demand for

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“conversion factors”), which generally deal only with the stuff that comes out of the exhaust pipe. This is one part of the reason why the carbon footprint of driving is often so badly underestimated. The story for diesel is slightly different. Each quart has a slightly higher footprint (13 percent), but it

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plant in Sydney is typical of the global efficiency (it uses relatively efficient technology but powers it with electricity from coal), that leaves a global carbon footprint of about 300 million tons CO2e—or something like 0.6 percent of all global emissions. And that figure is likely to continue increasing rapidly

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about animal welfare as well as climate change, buying fewer eggs but making them organic might be a sensible compromise. FIGURE 5.6: How the carbon footprint of eggs (not including cooking) cracks up. 1 kg (2.2 lbs.) of tomatoes 0.4 kg CO2e organic loose tomatoes, traditional variety, grown

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worth of 10-ton living—assuming, of course, that they had all been typical shoes. As the numbers here show, shoes vary enormously in their carbon footprint (no pun intended). Just as important is their longevity. At the low end of the carbon scale are Crocs, the simple and surprisingly durable shoe

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a general sense of care with resources. In a pub, look for local cask beer. For any hotels, pubs, or restaurants seeking to understand their carbon footprint, a colleague and I have built and tested a carbon calculator especially for tourism businesses and have made it freely available online.7 A leg

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of protectionist instinct—just presenting the facts as I see them. I’d like to see China develop—but not at any cost. Carpet type Carbon footprint (kg CO2e per kilo) (kg CO2e per pound) * * * General 3.89 1.77 * * * Felt underlay 0.96 0.44 * * * Nylon 5.43 2.47 * * *

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PET (polyethylene terephthalate) 5.55 2.5 * * * Polypropylene 5.03 2.29 * * * Polyurethane 3.76 1.71 * * * Wool 5.48 2.49 * * * TABLE 6.1: Carbon footprints of carpet types.9 To give a sense of what the numbers mean in practice, typical weights are 1 to 1.5 kg per square

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). Despite all this, computing can be a fairly low-carbon way of spending time. To summarize, computing could be a few percent of your carbon footprint. The embodied footprint of a computer is significant and could easily be the dominant factor, so it probably doesn’t make sense to buy a

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percent reduction in global emissions—it’s dead easy and has no bad side effects. Nitrogen fertilizer is a significant contributor to the world’s carbon footprint. Its production is energy intensive because the chemical process involved requires both heat and pressure. Depending on the efficiency of the factory, making 1

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has to be assembled, and every stage in the process requires energy. The companies that make cars have offices and other infrastructure with their own carbon footprints, which we need to somehow allocate proportionately to the cars that are made. When you stop to think about it, the manufacture of a car

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calls. It goes on and on forever. Attempts to capture all these stages by adding them up individually (the so-called process-based approach to carbon footprinting) are doomed from the outset to result in an underestimate, because the task is just too big. Luckily there’s an alternative in the

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remaining quarter of the footprint: IT equipment (5 percent), building maintenance (5 percent), paper based stuff (1 percent), and so on. FIGURE 10.2: The carbon footprint of Lancaster University. IT in total accounted for about 12 percent, with nearly half of that being due to the electricity consumed by computers themselves

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for powering the machines they contain and for keeping them cool with air-conditioning), and as people consume ever more digital content, their already considerable carbon footprint is rising fast. According to IT advisory company Gartner, the world’s data centers currently account for one-quarter of the energy consumed around the

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fairly typical European country, let’s see how all those emissions break down (Figure 11.2). Domestic energy, which often dominates the media coverage of carbon footprints, makes up 22 percent of the total, consisting of household fuel at 13 percent and electricity at 9 percent. For most people the fuel is

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of millions of people live very low-carbon lives, whereas the emerging middle class, with Western lifestyles in a less energy-efficient economy, probably have carbon footprints to dwarf those of the Australians. A war 690 million tons CO2e a “limited” nuclear exchange of fifty 15-kiloton15 warheads 250 to 600 million

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the emissions of a war could ultimately have serious human impacts somewhere in the world. In what was perhaps the only academic estimate of the carbon footprint of an atomic war, it was concluded that even a “small nuclear exchange” of just fifty 15-kiloton warheads would cause 690 million tons

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building regulations Almost certainly very expensive (see A house). Where the numbers come from I hope I have already made the point clearly enough that carbon footprinting is a long way from being an exact process, whatever anyone ever tells you or whatever numbers you might see written on the side of

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sources I have used. Publicly available data sets drawn from process life-cycle analyses Process-based life-cycle analysis is the most common approach to carbon footprinting. It is often referred to as “bottom-up” because you start off down on your hands and knees, identifying one by one all the

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Institute (2009), State of the World 2009: Confronting Climate Change, 26th ed., Earthscan, London. Total consumption figure taken from 2008, total fertilizer figure from 2005. carbon footprint of rice production Low estimate High estimate * * * Global rice consumption (million tons) 432 432 * * * Fertilizer applied (million tons) 161 161 * * * Percentage of global calories

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the huge fuel burn of the jet engines. (So don’t take airports too seriously if they tell you how carefully they are managing the carbon footprint of the airport building.) I reach similar figures running the model produced by David Parkinson and assuming a full flight. Overall this suggests that the

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Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. Earthscan, London. A recommended read. 15. Kilotons of TNT equivalent. 16. Duncan Clark in www.guardian.co.uk, “The carbon footprint of nuclear war” (2 January 2009), drawn from M.Z. Jacobson (2009), “Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security,” Energy Envir

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. See also North America carbon, black, 169–70, 222n20 carbon dioxide (CO2), 5–6, 196n2 carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), 6, 11 carbon efficiency, 165–66 carbon footprints, 5–15; assumptions about, 2–4; averages, per person, 11; calculation models, 124, 141–42, 189–95; defined, 5; “direct” vs. “consumption” footprints, 137–

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dishwashing, 38, 64–65, 207n27, 207n28 domestic energy, 163. See also specific uses doors, opening of, 19–20, 200–201n9 Dyson Airblade, 21–22 Earth, carbon footprint of, 170–73 Eco-Cement, 75, 76 Ecology Building Society, 128 Ecosheet, 82, 83 eggs, 98–99 electricity, from grid, 54–56, 56–60, 151

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K.’s national footprint, 163, 200n3, 200n4; usage estimates, 199–200n3 web searches, 17–19 wind turbines, 144–47, 188, 189 wine, 80–82 world, carbon footprint of, 170–73 And finally... this period: • It’s a particularly large period. I estimate that at 2 microns thick and 1 millimeter wide, it

Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth

by Juliet B. Schor  · 12 May 2010  · 309pp  · 78,361 words

. When it exceeds it, we’ve begun to eat into natural capital and are undermining the reproduction of future generations. FIGURE 2.10 Ecological Footprint, Carbon Footprint, and Biocapacity Source: Global Footprint Network (2009) By these calculations, the world first reached its limits in 1986. Since then resource use has increasingly outstripped

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study by the sociologist Anders Hayden. Britain has been described as “carbon crazy,” with significant government, business, NGO, and media attention paid to reducing the carbon footprint. Supermarket chains now label packages with carbon scores, and chains such as Marks and Spencer have signed on to carbon neutrality. In 2007 Parliament passed

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environment ministry has enacted programs on food waste and plastics use to encourage behavior change among citizens, and a variety of efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of businesses. In the academic literature, this approach is known as ecological modernization. It holds that the fundamentals of the market economy can remain intact

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for Economic Cooperation and Development (2008b), “Materials Mix by OECD Region,” p. 40. 46 wealthy countries have been off-loading: Hertwich and Peters (2009) calculate carbon footprints accounting for global trade patterns. That the United States outsourced 20 percent of emissions is from Ghertner and Fripp (2007). 48 a synthetic gas called

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sending toxic waste to Africa pointed out this perverse logic in the operation of the current market system. On the rich countries’ ecological footprints and carbon footprints being generated in poor nations, see Ghertner and Fripp (2007) and Hertwich and Peters (2009). 149 That’s where the economics of knowledge, or information

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, Edgar G. 2005. Consumption and the rebound effect. Journal of Industrial Ecology 9 (1-2): 85-98. Hertwich, Edgar G., and Glen P. Peters. 2009. Carbon footprint of nations: A global, trade-linked analysis. Environmental Science & Technology (June 15). Available from http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/es803496a (accessed July

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California Closets Canada: health care system in hours worked in materials use in sharing economy in canning and preserving capitalism carbon dioxide atmospheric concentration of carbon footprint carbon pricing cashmere cell phones environmental impact of storage and disposal of Census of Manufactures Center for Alternative Technologies Center for Economic and Policy Research

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff

by Fred Pearce  · 30 Sep 2009  · 407pp  · 121,458 words

attics of grand houses, they are spread across the world, growing our food, making our machines and stitching our clothes. People talk a lot about carbon footprints. But our personal footprints are much bigger than that. And they are social as well as ecological. The trouble is that, in our charmed world

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I report about the environment and development round the world. And to do my job, I also travel a lot. This is bad for my carbon footprint, but I really don’t believe you can learn about and report on the world by sitting at home and logging on to a virtual

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of southern Spain uses less energy than heating a British greenhouse to grow those tomatoes. Likewise, imported New Zealand lamb has only a quarter the carbon footprint of British lamb, even after the meat has made its journey across the planet. What counts is the total carbon-intensity of agribusiness. A Swedish

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the average Briton. Or to choose the hardest case, let’s, for the sake of argument, say Jacob should be personally responsible for the entire carbon footprint of his business, right to the supermarket shelf in the UK. How do things look? Every kilogram of Jacob’s green beans flown to Britain

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consumes 1.9 litres of aviation fuel, which releases 4.25 kilograms of CO2. So the carbon footprint of Jacob’s typical annual production, taking off a bit for topping and tailing and wastage at the Kenyan end, is about 17 tonnes of

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the average annual emissions for a typical Briton. But Jacob’s farm supports a family of four. So divide by four and the per-capita carbon footprint of his business comes out at about half that of average per-capita emissions in Britain. Surely he has some rights here? Do you still

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out, ‘This one farm receives subsidies equivalent to the average income of 25,000 people in Mali.’ So far I haven’t mentioned cotton’s carbon footprint. This turns out to be large, but surprisingly, much of it arises not from making your T-shirt, or even transporting it round the world

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are level pegging as they leave the shop. But because you can wash viscose at lower temperatures and it drip-dries in a jiffy, the carbon footprint of the viscose blouse from day-to-day use can be as little as a tenth that of a cotton T-shirt. It might be

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, anxious to proclaim that he once worked for Greenpeace, and at pains to be candid. ‘Aluminium processing is responsible for half of Rio Tinto’s carbon footprint round the world,’ he began. ‘And it is mostly because of operations in this town.’ We set off to check out the footprint, beginning at

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show passing storms. One day . . . And while we wait for the cyclone, Gladstone has a daily impact on the whole planet through its great, galumphing carbon footprint. Aluminium smelting requires more energy than any other metal process. Worldwide, the industry accounts for about 2 per cent of electricity consumption. The Boyne smelter

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more carbon dioxide per passenger-kilometre than a typical averagely full short-haul flight. Here is another thought. I have happily been assuming that my carbon footprint for taking the overnight sleeper train to Edinburgh is less than if I flew. But sleeper cars have just sixteen berths. Typically, they carry fewer

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official secret, or maybe they are just ignored because they are excluded from the Kyoto Protocol. A lot of research has been done recently into carbon footprints. It is only part of our total footprint, of course. But the figures are interesting. The Carbon Trust, for instance, shows that half of all

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just over 2 tonnes each. Meanwhile, I filled in a footprint calculator put online by the WWF. That disclosed that in my personal life, my carbon footprint is below the UK average at nearly 8 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, including a contribution for the services government provides. But then I

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and how. Anyhow, it didn’t look so good. See Chapter 29 on carbon offsets for what happened when I tried to calculate my horrible carbon footprint for travelling to write this book. But really I knew the problems. I fly. A lot. And when I am at home, I live in

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as the ultimate, painless and guilt-free solution to global warming. I am tempted to think the same. I am feeling guilty about my large carbon footprint from travelling round the world for this book. I too dump and burn. Can I offset my travels with a clear conscience? I decided to

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, and finally hits the presses about 140 kilometres from London in the small town of Bungay, courtesy of the printing company Clays. What’s the carbon footprint? Some products now come with labels announcing the amount of carbon emitted during their production. Books have not got that far yet. Figures supplied by

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’t have a figure for the retail end of the business, but I guess it might be at least as much again, giving a total carbon footprint for producing the book in your hand of almost half a kilogram of CO2, slightly more than I expect it weighs. But I think my

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buildings in summer with cold water from the depths of Lake Ontario. My city, London, has its congestion charge to end gridlock and reduce its carbon footprint. New York plans to copy it. And the developing world isn’t far behind. The southern Brazilian city of Curitiba pioneered bus-only roads, and

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area where there are no technical fixes at hand is air travel, which is the biggest source of emissions from many people with the biggest carbon footprints, including me. We simply have to give up flying as much as possible. I don’t have a magic formula for saving the world. The

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light pollution so we can see the Milky Way again. I think we need to remember the personal, as well as spending our time calculating carbon footprints. My journey for this book was about people as well as my environmental footprint. I cherish meeting the AIDS grannies keeping their families going in

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sugar 83 biofuels 82, 355 burying CO2 with 357 and palm oil 77 threat of 341 bismuth 207 black tiger prawns see king prawns books carbon footprint 312–13 research for 313 Borneo, rainforest clearances 169, 172 Box, John 350 BP, targetneutral scheme 305 Brasilia 347 bread Lighthouse 42 processes 42 stoneground

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) 299–300 Caldwell, Jack 365 Cameron, David 45, 103, 359 Cameron, Ray 219–20 Cameroon cocoa 94–7 cotton 136 slash-and-burn agriculture 95 carbon footprint books 312–13 calculating 371 publishing 313 carbon offsets see also CO2 emissions aircraft emissions 303–4, 306–8 availability 304–5 British Airways 304

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–8 hydroponics 342 IBM 163, 165 ice ages, Homo sapiens’ survival 332–3 immigrant fruit pickers conditions 46–7 pay 47 imports air miles 101 carbon footprints 101–2 plant foods 100–2 incinerators electricity generation from 261 pollution from 260–1 India Bihar 289 cardamom 58 child labour 124 computer recycling

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91 plankton, carbon offsets 310 plant foods see also foods by name air-miles issues 111–12 ancient varieties 89–90 benefits of local 45 carbon footprint 101–2 energy intensive production 102–3 extinctions 84 genetic resources 89–92 mutations 85–6 seasonality 100, 105 UK imports 100–2, 111–12

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, 176 prawns see king prawns prostitution, Manila 153, 155 Prudhoe Bay 214–20 public services, environmental footprint 241–2 public transport, gas powered 345 publishing, carbon footprint 313 Qiaotou 179 rainforest clearances Borneo 172 consequences 77–8 illegal logging 170–1 Indonesia 172–3 logging concessions 173–4 for palm oil 76

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are Thekeys to Sustainability

by David Owen  · 16 Sep 2009  · 313pp  · 92,907 words

they do. A dense urban area’s greenest features—its low per-capita energy use, its high acceptance of public transit and walking, its small carbon footprint per resident—are not inexplicable anomalies. They are the direct consequences of the very urban characteristics that are the most likely to appall a sensitive

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City, ranks last. The average Vermonter also consumes more than four times as much electricity as the average New York City resident, has a larger carbon footprint, and generates more solid waste, backyard compost bins notwithstanding.14 Jervey is by no means alone. The prominent British environmentalist Herbert Girardet—who is an

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—but they overlooked, or mentioned only in passing, the fact that the city contains 2.7 percent of the country’s population, meaning that its carbon footprint is already remarkably low in comparison with that of other American communities. Mandating large reductions in categories in which New Yorkers already lead the nation

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the living space of the average Manhattan resident, thereby making it more efficient.) • Live closer: The main key to lowering energy consumption and shrinking the carbon footprint of modern civilization is to contract the distances between the places where people live, work, shop, and play. Unfortunately, the steady enlargement of the American

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political action that are anticipated by well-meaning agreements like the Kyoto Protocol. As the world’s economies began to seize up in 2008, their carbon footprints shrank, too. What may seem less obvious is that the same relationship must operate in the other direction, as well: scaling back civilization’s most

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like to put people back to work and get them consuming again—for example, through programs intended to revive consumer spending (which has a big carbon footprint), and through public-investment projects aimed at doing things like building new roads and airports (ditto). In my area, stimulus money has already been allocated

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the very least, is decades or generations away) but something considerably worse (such as low-grade coal, China’s main fuel, which makes oil’s carbon footprint and pollution profile look demure), and that ordinary market forces, rather than leading us inexorably toward a golden future, will most likely entice us to

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expensive merely encourages people to drive more. Better cars alone, no matter how many miles they get to the gallon, can’t shrink mankind’s carbon footprint or move us closer to solving the ultimately unavoidable problem of what comes after cheap oil. I have met self-satisfied Prius owners who acted

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’t part of the physical structure of your house, but your use of them is every bit as much a part of your home’s carbon footprint and overall environmental impact as your incandescent lightbulbs, your furnace, your central air conditioner, and your swimming-pool heater. The number of miles you drive

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greener than almost any residential suburb. (The most immediately effective way for a typical residential-college student to further reduce his or her already modest carbon footprint would probably be to stop traveling home for Thanks-giving and to Fort Lauderdale or Acapulco for spring break.) A typical residential college concentrates uses

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travel from London to Australia “in a more sustainable way than I have grown accustomed to over the years.” She “offset” her share of the carbon footprint of her thirty-eight-hour transcontinental round-trip flight by making a $21.50 contribution, through Qantas, to an Australian “greenhouse gas abatement” program, and

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it got where it was going, and what else was traveling with it. The California raspberries I purchase at my grocery store have a smaller carbon footprint than the local raspberries I picked recently at a farm just a couple of towns away, because the California raspberries crossed the country in a

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three-hundred-mile car trips to buy dinner. All the car miles traveled by the farm’s loyal customers should be considered part of the carbon footprint and embodied energy load of those chickens. The weakness of locavorism as a global environmental principle is easy to see if you extend it beyond

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, as the world’s energy and emissions difficulties deepen. In 2008, Michael Specter addressed the issue of “food miles” in a New Yorker article on carbon footprints; in it he quoted, among other authorities, Adrian Williams, a British agricultural researcher, who told Specter, “The idea that a product travels a certain distance

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British supermarket chain Tesco announced a plan to favor locally produced foods and to label every product it sells with a calculation of its overall carbon footprint, including the cumulative footprints of its ingredients or parts, enabling consumers to measure the environmental impact of their purchases “as easily as they can currently

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assess the ultimate effectiveness of whatever actions might actually be taken, and it leads to the public-policy equivalent of playground arguments—“My father’s carbon footprint is smaller than your father’s”—and to politics-driven initiatives of questionable value. Actually, there’s a potentially productive way to think about carbon

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in global-scale delayed gratification, and doesn’t depend even on achieving a worldwide consensus about causes and effects. Almost all human activities with large carbon footprints are going to become increasingly expensive and untenable for reasons that have nothing to do with their likely impact on the earth’s climate fifty

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, as the rising price of jet fuel made flying increasingly expensive and unpleasant, the appeal of casual globetrotting fell, and flying’s contribution to individual carbon footprints fell with it, however slightly. That trend was interrupted in late 2008, when the price of oil plunged; it will resume when jet fuel again

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us, since we work at home and therefore don’t have to drive anywhere to work. (One relatively foolproof way for people to shrink their carbon footprints is to work closer to where they live, or live closer to where they work.) Given that reality, what Ann and I really need to

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mixing of uses, as well as acknowledging that in a dense city the truly important environmental issues are less likely to be things like the carbon footprints of apartment buildings than they are to be old-fashioned quality-of-life concerns like education, culture, crime, street noise, bad smells, resources for the

The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 9 Sep 2019  · 327pp  · 84,627 words

then mine that Big Data with their own analytics and create their own algorithms and apps to increase their aggregate efficiency and productivity, reduce their carbon footprint, and lower the marginal cost of producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services and recycling waste, making their businesses and homes greener and more efficient

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larger profit margins. The use of energy in just the manufacturing of these devices accounts for 85–95 percent of the devices’ life-cycle annual carbon footprint.17 If we take still another step back in the ICT supply chain, the projection doesn’t include energy used and emissions emitted in extracting

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most electricity, and emits the most greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 70 percent of the ICT carbon footprint. And it’s the proliferation of data centers that accounts for most of the energy use and carbon footprint, which by 2020 is estimated to be near 4 percent of all of the world’s power

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’s value chains and use analytics to create algorithms and applications to help their clients increase their aggregate energy efficiency and productivity and reduce their carbon footprint and marginal cost. Their clients, in return, will share the aggregate efficiency and productivity gains with the electricity companies. Power companies will profit more from

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analytics to create algorithms and applications to ensure the optimization of efficiencies along the logistical routes and, by doing so, increase productivity and reduce the carbon footprint while also reducing the marginal cost of every shipment. By 2028, at least some of the shipments on roads, railways, and water will be carried

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me that the goal of his business model is to provide homes, businesses, and communities with IoT technology that reduces the electricity used and the carbon footprint. IoT infrastructure in every building, while still nascent, is expected to grow exponentially in the next few years as the United States transforms its building

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up a society’s critical infrastructure are the juggernaut for managing, powering, and moving economic activity, social life, and governance, and together carry a hefty carbon footprint, we would be remiss in leaving the agricultural sector out, because it is a key consumer of energy and brings with it a big

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carbon footprint. The cultivation, irrigation, harvesting, storing, processing, packaging, and shipping of food to wholesalers and retailers uses a huge amount of energy. Petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides

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fund trustees.2 Although SRIs run the gamut and can be found across every industry and sector, the deepening concerns over climate change, the environment, carbon footprint, and the geopolitical influence of Big Oil have catapulted divestments out of the fossil fuel industry and into reinvestments in renewable energies and green industries

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to outperform their competitors, in part due to their commitment to greater aggregate efficiencies, less waste, circularity built into their supply chains, and a low carbon footprint, all of which increase their bottom line profit, and each of which is tied to their shift away from a fossil fuel civilization and into

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infrastructure, which is at the heart of a Green New Deal, is ascending, along with new aggregate efficiencies, higher productivity, and a dramatic reduction in carbon footprint. In turn, new businesses and workforces will be required to build out the green economy and manage it in the twenty-first century. As to

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aggregate efficiencies, productivity, and generativity of their clients’ business operations and, by doing so, reduce the fixed and marginal costs of their operations, reduce their carbon footprint, and hone circularity and resilience deep into every aspect of the clients’ business practices. Many ESCOs extend their services after the initial performance contract has

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a sustainable future “relies on regions and cities to deliver” on the EU’s targets for increasing renewable energy, accelerating energy efficiency, and reducing the carbon footprint. We briefed the representatives of the regions on the progress being made in the three green lighthouse regions we were working with in Hauts-de

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infrastructure, managing, powering, and moving their goods and services across value chains at low fixed costs, near-zero marginal costs, and with a near-zero carbon footprint. While each state will be charged with the task of building out and scaling up a Third Industrial Revolution, the goals and deliverables in each

Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist

by Ray C. Anderson  · 28 Mar 2011  · 412pp  · 113,782 words

is going to be solved, one smart, self-interested decision at a time. But sometimes self-interest points us in the other direction. Controlling our carbon footprint, even when it seems to save money, is not always the best strategy. Remember what I said about the next order at Interface, that it

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carpet to potential customers fast gives them a competitive edge. Not next week. Not in a few days. Tomorrow. But speed (think air) and reducing carbon footprints are opposite goals. What did we do? We let our sales force keep checking off that “next-day delivery” box, but they had to make

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very big ocean. When they did an audit to see where they stood, they found that a full 40 percent of their company’s total carbon footprint came from ocean freight and distribution (like carpet tiles, water is heavy). Stung by public criticism over marketing such a clean and healthy product in

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footprint to one degree or another. But there are large benefits to Interface, even if the savings seem small. Why? When you examine the total carbon footprint of one square yard of our carpet, you quickly discover that Interface is directly responsible for only 10 to 20 percent of it; everyone else

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sustainability and widens our circle of influence, it shrinks our own environmental footprint. And by the way, if you don’t think that reducing your carbon footprint is terribly important now, you may want to reconsider when you start being taxed on its size. Is that coming? Yes, I believe it is

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refreshing and replacement we would prolong the life of 80 percent of the material, saving the embodied energy and the greenhouse gases, and reducing the carbon footprint. Recall that when we reduced the nylon content of our carpets by just 4 percent we saved enough energy, enough oil, enough greenhouse gas emissions

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surely be meaningful work, and it would cut our virgin raw material use, our transport costs, and the embodied energy in our products—our whole carbon footprint. This could be the perfect integration of environmental responsibility, financial success, and social equity. Win, win, and win. That’s the way the system should

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dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas effect of ppm in atmosphere carbon dioxide credits carbon dioxide emissions legislation re top corporate emitters carbon emissions benefits (from RECs) carbon footprint taxing of zero, buying offsets to achieve carbon offsets doubts about carbon sinks carbon taxes Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) carpet industry, environmental impact of

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change climate mitigation, presidential action for Clinton, Bill Clough, Wayne CO2 Calculator (UPS) coal Coca-Cola cod fisheries College of the Atlantic colleges and universities carbon footprint of change comes slowly in role in solving environmental problems sustainability courses in Columbia University commerce redesigning See also business commitment commuting, by car compact

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

did their part to pave the way for the Paris Agreement. In an open letter, they committed to “taking voluntary actions to reduce environmental and carbon footprints, setting targets to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions and/or energy consumption while also collaborating in supply chains and at sectoral levels.”10 The

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2017. It shows that, even today, there is no magic formula for poor countries to industrialize and keep their carbon footprint in check. Development, an increased standard of living, and a greater carbon footprint still walk in lockstep. This is the central conundrum in the global fight against climate change, and it is almost

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are so innately motivated to seek a better lifestyle, and if in the course of the past 200 years that has meant increasing one's carbon footprint, are more sustainable climate policies even feasible? The answer partially depends on four key megatrends, which to varying degrees are shaped by society in its

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As most of these people lived in developing countries, their access to electricity, roads, and other sources of energy consumption was limited, as was their carbon footprint. But a change was already underway, and it would transform the global landscape in the next 50 years completely. By 2007, half of the world

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climate change. Some of the newest or most sophisticated cities, such as Doha, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and Singapore, are also ones with the largest carbon footprint per capita.31 And storied American cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or Los Angeles have pioneered the notion that in a city, car is

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's Earth Observatory:32 “This means concerted action by a small number of local mayors and governments has the potential to significantly reduce national total carbon footprints.” Moving to an entirely electric fleet of taxis and public transportation, for example, as Shenzhen recently did in China, makes a major difference in a

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/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html. 31 “Global Gridded Model of Carbon Footprints (GGMCF),” http://citycarbonfootprints.info/. 32 “Sizing Up the Carbon Footprint of Cities,” NASA Earth Observatory, April 2019, https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144807/sizing-up-the-carbon-footprint-of-cities. 33 “Why a Car Is an Extravagance in Singapore,” CNN, October

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-2019-a68612. 36 “Fertility Rate, Total (Births per Woman)—India,” World Bank, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=IN. 37 “The Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin,” Christian Stoll, Lena Klaaßen, Ulrich Gallersdörfer, Joule, July 2019, https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30255-7. 38 “Firms Must

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productivity growth during golden age of, 33–34 shareholder, 171–172, 173 state, 171, 172–173, 193 See also Stakeholder capitalism Capitalism, Alone (Milanovic), 173 Carbon footprints finding hope for lowering, 159 no magic formula for lowering, 157 Paris Agreement aim to lower, 150, 165, 182, 183, 189, 198 urbanization and increased

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–42 Healthy365 app (Singapore), 232 Hess-Maier, Dorothee, 9 High-quality debt, 29 Hiroshima bombing (1945), 5 Hirsch, Jeffrey, 240 Hitachi (Japan), 142 Hong Kong carbon footprint per capita, 159 globalization driving economic growth of, 98 Nanyang Commercial Bank of, 57–58 See also Asian Tigers Horowitz, Sara, 242 Housing financial crisis

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influence on global entrepreneurs by, 94 problem with competition in, 208–209 See also Big Tech Silk Road (Seidenstrassen) [1st century BC], 99, 100 Singapore carbon footprint per capita, 159 continued trust in public institutions in, 196 COVID-19 pandemic response by, 232–233 creating prosperity, 249 digital economy embraced by, 113

Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future

by Robert Bryce  · 26 Apr 2011  · 520pp  · 129,887 words

. Give up those evil hydrocarbons and embrace the virtues of renewable energy before you face the eternal damnations of foreign oil, global warming, and a carbon footprint that’s bigger than Boone Pickens’ ego. Lovins is among the most quoted purveyors of energy happy talk. In 2007, he wrote a short piece

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2009 World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency declared that “nuclear technology is the only large-scale, baseload, electricity-generation technology with a near-zero carbon footprint.”20 If policymakers are going to agree that carbon dioxide is a problem, then, as the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Rhodes has put it

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See also under specific countries Carbon dioxide emissions reduction as a global priority nuclear power and See also Global climate change; Kyoto Protocol; Zero-emissions Carbon footprint Carbon intensity, reductions in, comparing (fig.) “Carbon neutral” claims, issue with Carbon tax, myth involving Cardinal Mine(fig.) Carter, Jimmy Causation, issue of Cellulosic ethanol

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

by Molly Scott Cato  · 16 Dec 2008

an economy. GDP only measures monetary values and flows, whereas from a sustainability point of view we need both to measure the actual ecological and carbon footprint of our economic activity and to keep a measure of actual physical assets and resources, not just their monetary value. Inequality. Even if national income

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

, including especially its plastics and fleshes. The Cloud layer, just above the Earth layer in The Stack, makes epic, rapidly expanding energy demands (the total carbon footprint of the world's data centers has already surpassed that of the airline industry and is presumed to triple by 2020), and so risk is

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can best collaborate with other aggregated exertions to power another unknown project. Yes, you are a battery. Our most visionary plots have the Stack's carbon footprint measured not in debt but in surplus, and likely in our lifetimes or not, the geopolitics of a postscarcity Earth layer is worth articulating and

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real estate metrics that outvote other politics of the envelope. A partial list of these benchmarks includes both the sensible and the sinister: on-site carbon footprint minimization, energy and water management, replaceable and recombinant building materials, perimeter gate security, civic control contingency planning, bomb-resistant membranes, crowd circulation administration, tightly curated

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have brought their shared location into contrasting Cloud dramas; one may be ensconced in a first-person shooter game and the other in measuring his carbon footprint, further fragmenting any apparent solidarity of the crowd. With billions of Users wielding mobile Apps at a time, and to varying degrees navigating their domains

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feedback loops initiated with infrastructural systems. This might entail the monetization of cognition (as for Cloud platforms) or of the calculation of a User's carbon footprint toward other ends, but what matters most is the optimization of the User's profile as the source of its economic viability and its political

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. While we are optimistic that posthuman Users contribute in some way toward a post-Anthropocenic geopolitics, that does not mean necessarily that visualizing Siri's carbon footprint or mapping the microbial biome in the cockroaches that pilot Google cars is the shining path. To date, much of the discussion about the political

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the Internet Becoming the Bot Net?,” Big Think, April 2, 2012, http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/is-the-internet-becoming-the-bot-net. 47.  In carbon footprinting all things, sentient or dumb, are comparable. The robot replaces the expensive worker, the inexpensive worker replaces the expensive robot, the even more inexpensive desktop

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that Google-scale platforms might be able to solve both the “socialist pricing problem” as well the “capitalist pricing problem,” namely, transaction externalities (e.g., carbon footprint, infrastructure theft, energy theft, pollution), by including these real costs in to the real price. That price might not only be price of an individual

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, 295 digital, 80 future of, 321 industrial/postindustrial, 80, 128, 254 of people versus things, 212 capitalist pricing problem, 333, 337, 369 carbon economy, 98 carbon footprint China, 259 of data computing, 92–96 electricity generation, 95 India, 95 stabilizing, 259, 303 US, 259 carbon governance, 88–90 carbon police, 306 Carpenter

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, 325, 328–329 United Kingdom, financial crisis, 123 United Nations globalism, 32 United Parcel Service (UPS), 131, 133 United States Air Force, 381n27 bombing, 325 carbon footprint, 259 data-gathering, 363 Department of Defense, 27, 441n8 embassy buildings, 322 federal Stack programs, 441n8 Google's line with, 135 information transparency, 399n39 Internet

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