greenhouse gasses Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:46:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Protecting and Restoring Vegetation Could Help Lower Global Carbon Levels https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vegetation-gloabl-carbon-levels-20171023/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vegetation-gloabl-carbon-levels-20171023/#comments Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:46:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=64681 A new study organized by The Nature Conservancy explains how the 20 steps that it describes can help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere just as much as stopping the use of fossil fuels would. The 20 steps refer to ways through which forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other natural areas could be […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/vegetation-gloabl-carbon-levels-20171023/feed/ 1 64681 Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Worse for Environment than Previously Understood https://www.greenoptimistic.com/keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-worse-for-environment-than-previously-understood-20130418/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-worse-for-environment-than-previously-understood-20130418/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:47:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=36432 The environmental group Oil Change International (OCI) analyzed the climate change impacts of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline and discovered that it would move so much tar sands oil that 181 million metric tons of greenhouse gases would be emitted annually. In stark contrast, US State Department consultants had previously maintained that completing the pipeline […]

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