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The Morning Challenge Suggests Japanese People To Wake Up 1 Hour Earlier For Saving CO2

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:49:10 +0000

It looks like the Japanese aren't going to stay behind the English with daylight saving (or vice-versa), and launch a campaign that encourages people to change their wake-up and sleep time one hour earlier to save lots of tons of emitted carbon dioxide.

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Research: Postponing 5 O'Clock Tea By 1 Hour Could Offer Huge CO2 Savings

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:01:19 +0000

You surely remember how it's like in winter: you wake up, it's dark, you turn the lights on. When you go to work, there's finally more light, but when you return at around 5, say, it's dark again, and you feel like you've been missing the whole day. But that's not the point. The idea is that you consume much more electricity and resources if your schedule doesn't match the daylight.

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Dutch Scientists Say Reducing Speed Limits to 50 MPH Would Cut CO2 Emissions by 30%

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:07:11 +0000

Holland is a country many people mention for its cleanliness and low-speed driving (120 km/h max on motorways). Still, there's room for more, as Mattijs Otten and Huib van Essen from the University of Delft released a study saying that the CO2 emissions would be reduced by 30% in the long run by reducing the speed limit to 80 km/h (50 mph).

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