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Category: Carbon footprint
Students develop tool to predict the carbon footprint of algorithms
On a daily basis, and perhaps without realizing it, most of us are in close contact with advanced AI methods known as deep learning. Deep learning algorithms churn whenever we…
“We need to change”: Astronomers Admit Their Outsized Contribution to the Climate Crisis
All those long flights to remote observatories ensure Astronomers have an outsized carbon footprint. And Astronomers keen to reduce their carbon footprints are being advised to abandon software languages like…
The carbon footprint of dinner: How ‘green’ are fish sticks?
Popular products generate significant ‘post-catch’ emissions, underscoring the need to measure what happens after fish are caught University of California – Santa Cruz Processing Alaskan pollock into fish sticks, imitation…
High carbon footprint families identified by sweets and restaurant food, not higher meat consumption
University of Sheffield Families with high carbon footprints consume two to three times more sweets and alcohol than those with low footprints Study by experts in Sheffield and Kyoto, Japan,…
Now They’re coming after the Roast Beef of Old England
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley At Harvard, there was once a University. Now that once noble campus has become a luxury asylum for the terminally feeble-minded. Walter Willett, one of…
UK Govt Committee: End All Private Vehicle Ownership Because Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova; Even EVs like Tesla are not safe from this new demand from the green British Conservative Government. Ditch cars to meet climate change…
Eco-sneakers are still killing the planet, just a little slower [Study]
by Danny McLoughlin Eco-sneakers are still killing the planet, just a little slower [Study] The Adidas NMD_CS1 Parley Primeknit is made from recycled plastic bags retrieved from the ocean. With…
The Lancet: Diet and food production must radically change to improve health and avoid potentially catastrophic damage to the planet
From EurekAlert! Public Release: 16-Jan-2019 The Lancet: Diet and food production must radically change to improve health and avoid potentially catastrophic damage to the planet Feeding a growing population of…
Google's massive carbon footprint fingered with new online tool
Internet search giant emits 500 kg of CO2 emissions per second. Every Google search comes at a cost to the planet. In processing 3.5 billion searches a day, the world’s most popular website…
