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Gaia Movement

Gaia Preservation Coalition: The Gaia Preservation Coalition is a gathering of those who are concerned about the impact of humanity upon the biosphere and who seek with others to reduce the carbon footprint of society through the creation and exploration of ideas and actions that move Humanity toward a more harmonious relationship within Gaia.

Victoria Square Shopping Centre

Environmentally, a large section of the roof has been covered in Sedum in a direct attempt to reduce the carbon footprint of Victoria Square.


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Belgrave Trust

; Ease Through Simplicity : An extreme concern with a very simple and fast method for calculating and individual's carbon footprint, contrasted with the sequential questionnaire approach, and transactional (rather than subscription) model used by first generation retail voluntary offset services such as TerraPass and Native Energy.

Carbon Clear

In 2010, the company was involved in measuring the carbon footprint of Cousin Island and the conservation and eco-tourism activities of Nature Seychelles.

Carbon Trust

Examples of products featuring their carbon footprint in the UK are Walkers Crisps, a range of own brand products in Tesco supermarkets, Halifax (HBOS) bank accounts, Dyson airblades, Marshalls building products, Kingsmill bread, Quaker oats, Silver Spoon sugar, Tate & Lyle sugar and La Farge cement.

Curepipe

Prominent projects include the segregation of waste, judicious use of water, parking problems, the encouraging of public transport, the promotion of the SSR Curepipe Botanic Gardens and working towards minimizing the town's carbon footprint.

Energy applications of nanotechnology

ConsERV's value is demonstrated in the form of an energy recovery a device which pretreats the incoming fresh air to a building using the energy found in the exhaust air steam using no moving parts to lower the energy and carbon footprint of existing forms of heating and cooling equipment Polymer membranes can be designed to selectively allow particles of one size and shape to pass through while preventing others of different dimensions.

United Nations Car Free Days

The team has organized and supported three low carbon footprint events: in Bogotá, Surabaya, and Fremantle.