1. Drive Smart

Have you ever felt the pang that comes from realizing that you’ve left the faucet running on full blast while brushing your teeth for minutes or more? I know I’m not the only one who remembers the Sesame Street gang crooning about water conservation. This is the pang you should feel when you waste gasoline. Save the gas, use your legs, or better yet–use your bike. Additionally, when you do drive, make sure that your tires are fully inflated. This one simple act can drastically improve your gas mileage.

2.  Plant Trees

Lots of people argue that a decent way to off-set carbon/fossil fuel use is by planting trees to last 50 years or more. Naturally trees act as a carbon sinks, much like the ocean–trapping carbon, breaking it down and converting it into safe compounds. As long as the wood of the tree hasn’t decomposed, the carbon is sequestered. There’s a lot of debate over whether or not this can actually be described as off-setting burning fossil fuels, but every little bit helps!

3. Control Your Heating/Cooling Habits

Improving our increasing fossil fuel use goes hand in hand with improving our energy efficiency- especially at home. Use less air conditioning and heating, and if possible install a programmable thermostat to adjust temperature for certain times of the day when you’re not home.

4. Add A Carbon Filter To Your Car

This may sound like a costly endeavor, but outfitting your car with one of IEC’s carbon filters is a very economical and effective way of off-setting your fossil fuel consumption. Our filters are custom made as a vehicle exhaust add-ons, and are relatively quickly and easily installed. The filters need only to be changed as often as you get an oil change. And did you know that once these filters are changed out, we at IEC have devised a method for safe carbon storage by collect the filters and converting the captured carbon into limestone? For more information about how you can reduce your impact, or to order a CO2 filter for your car, visit our website at www.carboncapturefilters.com.

Fortunately, many people–including everyone at IEC–see these dangers as complex problems that require creative solutions. The important thing to remember is that while it seems as though we’re in a bit of a bind–environmentally speaking–there are definite, practical, natural and SAFE solutions for restoring the chemical balance of our atmosphere and our planet.

At IEC we brainstorm solutions for carbon capture methods everyday. One such solution to our greenhouse gases contributing to our rising sea levels is to facilitate the earth’s natural methods for carbon capture and sequestration. Our patent pending methods of capturing and storing CO2 include seeding melt water lakes that form on tundra and glacial masses with metal hydroxides for CO2 uptake where needed. Our idea is to then apply nutrient minerals directly to ice pacts and open water in order to promote a safe and natural method of carbon sequestration in the polar seas.

As always, our patented method of filtration of CO2 via chemical absorption will harness the organic energy potential of the compound by decreasing or eliminating its emission and utilizing it safely for alternative means.

What does this mean? This means simply that we can capture excess harmful CO2 and convert it into a useful industrial solid.

If you’re interested in learning more about our patented methods for carbon sequestration in glacial melt water lakes, or about licensing our revolutionary technologies, or if you have no idea what these things mean but think that you’d like to, please log on to our website at www.carboncapturefilters.com.

The ultimate would-you-rather: Would you rather have clean air or cheaper fuel? Well, I’m assuming we’d all like to breathe healthily and be able to exist on this planet for the next few years or so. But then again, filling up the gas tank lately can send you into shock.

Does it have to be one or the other? In voting on whether regulation of the clean air act by the Environmental Protection Agency is a useful/practical tool for combating the US’s staggering carbon emissions, some politicians think so. Rather than get immersed in the epic red-blue environment argument, let’s humor ourselves to assume that eventually we’ll get so desperate as to arrive at an answer to our environmental woes that we can all agree on.

In the meantime, we an entertain an idea that there is an elegant solution to our carbon emissions that also provides effective, safe, and USEFUL storage of converted-carbon compounds from industrial and vehicle CO2 emissions. In fact, Industrial Environmental Carbon provides continually evolving technology to reduce carbon emissions by capturing CO2, and providing a safe alternative method for storage that converts captured carbon into a useful industrial solid.

If you’re interesting in reducing your impact, ask us about our easy-to-install vehicle exhaust add-ons. For more inquiries about IEC’s  patented technology, visit our website http://carboncapturefilters.com

One of the biggest carbon-related events of the year is on for the next three days here in LA– Navigating the American Carbon World 2011!

Disappointed I couldn’t attend,but pretty excited to see what comes out of it, and to see new faces come out of the woodwork in the carbon world. Stay tuned!!

For information on purchasing one of IEC’s revolutionary filters, email:

katherine@carboncapturefilters.com

It is like a different universe down here- completely unique. The mini is plugging away through the salt flats and the Colorado Plateau.

“Other people might feel I stayed the same from place to place; but to myself I always seemed totally steeped in my environment, or dyed in local color, and now because in transit I felt suffused with utter nowhereness, and therefore like I might turn out to be anyone at all.” – Benjamin Kunkel, Indecision

Welcome to Colorado!

My favorite so far- driving through the mountains was almost like a religious experience. Talked to a trucker in Breckenridge who wanted to know if IEC custom-made filters to fit semis. Yes! IEC can custom design filters for ANY combustion engine vehicle. Trucks, cars, SUVs, lawn mowers, 4 wheelers, go carts, motorized scooters- whatever! You can reduce your emissions wherever you go- in whatever mode of transportation gets you there.

Approximately 400 miles into our journey, the filter housing remains tightly secured to its stainless steel shelving fixed around the tail end of the exhaust. So far, the add-on has made little audible difference beyond normal exhaust noises. Gas mileage so far has averaged around 40 MPG highway, and the filter is not expected to affect this either negatively or positively, but there are plenty of miles of open road to explore this. Grabbing some Bocce’s pizza with some old Syracuse friends then heading out west bound early in the morning.

Our Journey Starts in Vermont

Welcome to the maiden voyage of the newest engineered design from IEC. Our custom-made filters can be designed specifically for any combustion engine vehicle. This filter was engineered for a Mini Cooper S with a turbo charged 4-cylinder engine, and is made from stainless steel. It contains two baffles to channel the exhaust air up into the perforated filter compartment, interacting with the filter media contained in a pocket of Kevlar 50-grade mesh material. Flow is not restricted, only diverted through filter media before exiting the exhaust add-on unit with very little increase in heat in the surface area of the unit. Heading out west bound out of Vermont with a full tank of gas and a packed cooler.

IEC offers a custom-made carbon filtration exhaust add-on unit for any gasoline-powered vehicle. This filter will improve the quality of engine exhaust by reducing CO2 by an average 50% total volume output.

The filter is housed within a stainless steel cylinder and fitted over the length of the vehicle’s tailpipe. The combustion gases are diverted through this revolutionary filter to capture the exhaust’s CO2 emissions.

The average carbon footprint for American driving is 6 tons per year. This filter can effectively reduce this amount by half. Our patented carbon-capture method reduces CO2 emissions by 3.12 lbs per vehicle continuously at idle speed. For example, if 356 cars equipped with our device were sitting at a red light, they would capture one ton of CO2 before the light turns green.