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 ...

Consider, for example, the personal carbon cost of taking a commercial flight. On the one hand, the calculation is straightforward: take how much fuel a plane burns and how many greenhouse gases are ...

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 ...

This episode is sponsored by Wren, a website where you calculate your carbon footprint. Sign up to make a monthly ...

When we think about our carbon footprint, hot topics include plastic waste, air pollution and high energy consumption. But we don’t give as much attention to the impact of our digital life. With the ...

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 ...

Reducing your carbon footprint means contributing less of these gases to the atmosphere. But figuring out how to lower your carbon footprint is more complicated. That’s why several mobile tracking ...