carbon footprint
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Is It More Sustainable to Live Off the Land or in the City?
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life — and the systems that will save us. Check out…
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The World’s Biggest Plant to Suck Carbon Dioxide From the Sky Is Up and Running
The world’s biggest direct air capture (DAC) plant is set to come online in Iceland on Wednesday. The moment is an important one in developing new technologies to help suck carbon dioxide out of the air — but raises a whole host of questions on the future of how we’re going to put those technologies…
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Behold, Carbon-Free Steel Now Exists
This week, a Swedish firm announced it had delivered carbon-free steel to a customer — a world-first. It’s a huge step in the race to clean up one of the most carbon-intensive activities on Earth.
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Ban Mansions
Individual choices about consumption won’t solve the climate crisis alone. But for the richest among us, some forms of polluting pleasure are going to have to go. At the top of the list are giant houses, which are a key reason that the world’s richest 1% have carbon footprint 175 times the size of those…