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Reducing Our Carbon Footprint through Ridesharing

Description: This report discusses research on reducing our carbon footprint through ridesharing. The focus of this research project was to analyze and collect travel trajectories to calculate carbon footprints under different travel modes and identify ways to reduce it.
Date: 2012
Creator: Garrett, Kim; Bell, Jesse; Huang, Yan & Powell, James
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings

Description: This article uses 9 years of annual meeting attendance data from the Ecological Society of American and the Association of American Geographers to assess the efficacy of two additional solutions: 1) alternate large national meetings that require significant air travel with smaller regional meetings that do not; and 2) incorporate geography into the meeting location selection process.
Date: October 29, 2011
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G. & Byrnes, Jarrett E.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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