Carbon Footprints

In the UK’s fabulous The Guardian newspaper, Miliband plans carbon trading ‘credit cards’ for everyone.
Every citizen would be issued with a carbon “credit card” - to be swiped every time they bought petrol, paid an energy utility bill or booked an airline ticket - under a nationwide carbon rationing scheme that could come into operation [...]

The UK’s Telegraph is saying UN downgrades man’s impact on the climate.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent.
In a final draft of its fourth assessment report, [...]

The UK’s Independent is reporting Your carbon footprint revealed: Climate change report finds we each produce 11 tons of carbon a year - and breaks down how we do it.
A study by the government-funded Carbon Trust puts the annual carbon footprint of the average Briton at 10.92 tons of CO2
Here’s the breakdown:

Chart by Dave Sag [...]

In part 2 of his series on climate change, Sir David Attenborough looks at the impacts global warming is already having, and is likely to have upon the earth, and what we can do to mitigate its effects in the short term and stop them in the mid to longer term. — DS

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In the UK The Times is reporting Stamp duty relief to underline need for zero-carbon houses.
Newly built zero-carbon homes will be exempt from stamp duty from April for at least three years, Gordon Brown announced.
The move is intended to give impetus to investment into zero-carbon communities — 27 per cent of carbon emissions in Britain [...]

Part 1 of the riveting BBC documentary by the legendary Sir David Attenborough. He asks the question “Are we changing Planet Earth?” and goes on to demonstrate, in his inimitable style, how we are changing the Earth’s climate, and how we know we are. Using archival footage covering his 27 years as a wildlife [...]

Dave, Matt and Dallas discuss an issue in iChat
Carbon Planet is a very distributed organisation. The only way we can manage that, and be true to our principles of maximum CO2 emissions reductions, is to use web-based collaboration systems such as Jira and Confluence by Atlassian for issue tracking and data sharing. By [...]