Those of you who would like to perhaps use the winter time to educate yourselves about the environment, here’s an opportunity. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made available for free download several of its course textbooks as part of an initiative called Open Courseware. The courses cover several areas of interest, including the environment. Click here to see a list of the courses in the Civil and Environmental Engineering section and you may well find one that will match your interests. Have fun.
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Antonio Pasolini
London-based, Italo-Brazilian journalist and friend of the earth.
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Does anybody know about this site ( http://www.earthlab.com ) ? I have seen other environmental sites with carbon calculators like yahoo and tree huggers, but I am wondering what the deal with earthlab.com is, is it credible? I saw they also published a list last month of the top ten greenest cities ( http://www.efficientenergy.org/Top-Ten-Green-Cities-in-the-United-States ). Does anyone know if this site is better than say WWF site? Fill me in
I took their carbon foot print test and it was pretty interesting, but they said that I put out 4.5 tons of carbon while another test gave me like 15 tons? I think I trust earthlab.com’s test a little more (because my score is lower). Does anyone know about any other tests?