Smoking A Joint Could Ruin Your Carbon Footprint

...it's important to put the stoner jokes aside and think about ways to reduce this industry's impact on the environment.

Mills says the energy use for indoor Cannabis production can be reduced dramatically. Cost-effective efficiency improvements of 75% are conceivable, which would yield energy savings of about $25,000/year for a generic 10-module growing room. Shifting cultivation outdoors eliminates most energy uses (aside from transport), although the practice can impose other environmental impacts.

Earthquakes linked to climate change

The researchers say it's the first time climate change has been recognised as having the potential to influence the motion of tectonic plates.

Opposition targets carbon compo plan

Mr Combet told the National Press Club the more than 50 per cent level would apply in the first year of the carbon price "and over a period of years".
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Ms Gillard, who visited a power station in southwest Queensland on Wednesday that uses solar energy and coal, said people would receive "more household assistance than the price impacts they will see in the things that they buy".

About 50 high polluters to bear carbon tax brunt, Greg Combet tells Press Club | The Australian

In a move to reassure business, Mr Combet said the Gillard government was committed to providing substantial transitional assistance to emissions-intensive, trade exposed industries.

But - taking a $20 carbon price - he said the average price impact on a tonne of steel would be about $2.60 out of an $800 per tonne price.
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But opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said Labor's carbon tax would simply redistribute wealth rather than change behaviour.

"If a lot of people are better off, what's the purpose of the tax?'' he asked.