If you’re anything like me, you’re both thrilled and relieved that the 2008 presidential elections will actually be happening tomorrow, and on Wednesday we will finally (barring technical, judicial malfunctions...fingers crossed) be able to, as fellow TreeHugger Lloyd Alter puts it, get back to green instead of red and blue.

photo: Maury Landsman

Norway has lots of reasons to back CCS - it already sequesters 1 million tons annually.

Photo: Indigenous activists protesting lack of representation in UNFCCC at last year's climate talks in Bali (AP/Ed Wray)

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Instead of funding tree planting in Indonesia, wind farms in China or methane capture right here at home, S.F.-based Village Green (of "Green My Vino" fame) is trying a different route - selling directly to consumers permits from the fledgling carbon cap and trade market just starting up in the U.S. Northeastern states.

The Baltic Exchange Dry Index or "BDI" (plotted 2001 to present) is considered an economic indicator of future economic growth and production, world wide. .…an assessment of the price of moving the major raw materials by sea.

As part of the eco-friendlienss factor that computer manufacturers are implementing in their designs is bamboo and wood-cased computers. Feeling the pressure both from consumers and from each other, the greenness of a computer plays in to the current acceptance level of a manufacturers new products…well, at least in part.