Different shades of green – Babbage Blog (The Economist)

Interesting insight from the Economist’s Babbage blog:

“OIL tycoons, mining giants and airlines make for such perfect villains in the global-warming debate that it is easy to forget the environmental impact of a humble household. But a report published this week by the OECD, a rich-country think tank, notes that households use up to 30% of global energy production, and emit 20% of its CO₂ emissions.”