He started Wild Guanabana, which was the Middle East's first carbon neutral travel company.
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All of this global business is driven by the presumption that biomass is carbon neutral.
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Copenhagen, for example, aims to be the world's first carbon neutral capital by 2025.
But the aim is to show that carbon neutral motoring, using waste fat as a biofuel, is achievable.
The entire site would be carbon neutral and powered by a range of solar, thermal and recycling generators.
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The fourth example was a G-Wizz electric vehicle which is the most environmentally friendly or carbon neutral green vehicle type.
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We thought that, leading the way in becoming carbon neutral, we could get our corporate brothers and sisters to follow.
Many schools have pledged to go "carbon neutral" by offsetting their greenhouse gas emissions by investing in CO2 reduction efforts elsewhere.
"Business as usual is not going to move us towards a carbon neutral world, " said Jeff Gazzard, of the Aviation Environment Federation, who nevertheless welcomes the Davos declaration.
Steffen, a journalist and founder of WorldChanging, raised money for his book Carbon Zero, which details the future of carbon neutral cities and comes out next month.
The college's film focuses on environmental issues as the film makers investigate making their school greener with the ultimate goal of turning the college into a carbon neutral building.
Woody biomass has been presumed to be carbon neutral because carbon emissions released by burning the wood would be taken back up from the atmosphere as new trees grew.
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Environmentalists howled and state regulators ultimately held him to one, extracting a promise to make the project ostensibly carbon neutral by shutting down 800 megawatts of older coal plants by 2018.
In addition, many green-minded schools, like Yale and Stanford, aren't part of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, an agreement by university presidents to make their school carbon neutral.
First, one of the main points is the high environmental cost and how long it will take for the project to become carbon neutral: 71 years, according to a UC Berkeley study.
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This would include advanced land use management strategies to protect or enhance land carbon sinks, and the use of biomass for both carbon sequestration (including biochar) and as a carbon neutral energy source.
Because it uses organic materials, any carbon dioxide released during the generation of energy is offset by that absorbed during the plant's life, so the process as a whole is broadly balanced, or "carbon neutral".
While the residents of Samso can take advantage of their island's blustery weather, open spaces and low-population density to be carbon neutral, the success of wind energy on a global scale may come down to simple economics.
However, since a critical UN report in 2010 organisers have produced an extensive "green" programme for Sochi 2014, including carbon neutral construction, environmental education, and a plan to reintroduce the endangered snow leopard back into the region.
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Google says it has been carbon neutral since 2007, offsetting its greenhouse gas emissions by signing contracts to purchase renewable energy from wind farms and the like and by buying carbon credits that help finance other green power projects.
As Copenhagen itself strives to be carbon-neutral itself by 2025, sustainable economic growth remains a major concern.
And by that time, we could and should have viable, affordable carbon-neutral energy systems in place.
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The Nets claim to be the first major professional sports team to achieve carbon-neutral status.
British wind power company B9 recently tested a model of its planned 100-meter, 3, 000-ton carbon-neutral freighter.
Owned by celebrity chef Kylie Kwong, Billy Kwong is a carbon-neutral eatery modelled on a traditional Chinese teahouse.
He also talks about Corporate Social Responsibility in China, and a student-led initiative that has meant that CEIBS is the first certified carbon-neutral campus of any business school in the world.
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Much of the avoided energy consumption will come from the switch to carbon-neutral district heating (rural households will switch from oil, natural gas, and electric heating to heat pumps and biomass burners).
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He highlighted Toronto's own "tower renewal" project, retrofitting buildings in a run-down area of town that he hopes will be an example of a carbon-neutral urban renewal project that can be applicable elsewhere.
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