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Buy Nikon’s COOLPIX S52 and become carbon neutral for a month

Published by Simon Leufstedt on May 6th, 2008 in Business & Politics.

Nikon\'s Coolpix S52In a move to attract consumers during Earth Day, Ritz Camera, the largest retail camera and photo chain in the United States, have started a partnership (PDF) with Carbonfund.org featuring the Nikon COOLPIX S52.

This partnership lets you buy a “special edition ECO-Green colored” Nikon COOLPIX S52 camera and thus become carbon neutral for a month.

Basically, each time a customer purchases this special “ECO-Green colored” camera Ritz Camera will make a donation to Carbonfund.org to help offset 1.91 tons of carbon dioxide, per camera sold. According to CarbonFun.org it costs, using their service, $5.50 to offset one ton of carbon dioxide.

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Solar power from Africa could power all of Europe

Sahara desert in Morocco

The image shows the sun shining through the clouds on the Sahara desert in Morocco. Photo by: GETA.80.

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy earlier this summer launched, with the support of EU, a new Mediterranean union with the aim to “tackle issues such as regional unrest, immigration to pollution.”

The new international body will include 16 non-EU states from around the Mediterranean and all 27 EU member states. The union will focus on dealing with energy, security, counter-terrorism, immigration and trade. The union will include 756 million people from Western Europe to the Jordanian desert.

Some say that the Union was launched mainly because Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to “exchange” nuclear power expertise with North African gas reserves. Nicolas Sarkozy on the other hand says the union is supposed “to ensure the region’s people could love each other instead of making war.”

But some people are more positive and hope the union is the first steps towards large scale solar plants in northern Africa with focus of generating green and renewable electricity to Europe.

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