This idea of a carbon footprint comes up a lot in news coverage about personal climate impact. The concept is simple: It includes anything that you add to planet-warming emissions, ranging from the ...

When you hear about the many dire effects of human-caused climate change -- boiling summers, rising seas, intensifying natural disasters-- it's normal to think, "What can I do to help?" One answer you ...

Anyone picking up a prescription from their pharmacy is used to the reams of paper that typically accompany it: information on safety, storing, and how to use the drug. What if that information also ...

The Bits to Energy Lab has developed a prototype system utilizing data collected via RFID to calculate an individual item's carbon footprint and display it on an RFID-enabled mobile phone. A product’s ...

Students at Smith are thinking about their carbon footprints—the amount of greenhouse gas emissions associated with each person’s individual lifestyle and consumption—but are also learning to look ...

This idea of a carbon footprint comes up a lot in news coverage about personal climate impact. The concept is simple: It includes anything that you add to planet-warming emissions, ranging from the ...