The World’s Biggest Polluters. Posted on Oct 15, 2009 | Comments 13 Here we present a graphical representations of the world’s 20 biggest CO2 emitters , in terms of million metric tonnes. China has now overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest polluter ; its carbon emissions have more than doubled in a decade. However, US and China, world’s biggest polluters, promise to address global climate change at the Climate Change Summit at the UN General Assembly in New York, recently. India, now the fourth biggest polluter, is also rapidly increasing its emissions, and is increasing its population of 1.15 billion people far faster than any other country; soon its human numbers will be on a par with China’s and its emissions following suit. image source: maplecroft.com.
Blog Action Day: Five apps to help save the world. TUAW is participating in this year's Blog Action Day on 10/15, an annual event in which bloggers around the world aim to spark discussion and awareness of serious and important issues.
This year's topic is climate change, and fortunately, just like last year, we in the Apple community are in a pretty good place -- the company makes it a point to stay as green as possible, they have Al Gore on their board, and they make it safe and easy to dispose of their products in an environmentally friendly way. But there's always more we can do, from person to person -- making the earth a better place to live is going to take all of us working together. CARMA - Carbon Monitoring for Action.