Archive for August, 2007

Eco Report on Sky News

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

I was interviewed on the Sky News Channel’s Eco Report show. It screened last weekend and I’ve taken the liberty of posting it up to YouTube for your streaming pleasure.
In the interview I discuss emissions audting, the reasons a company chooses to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions, Carbon Planet’s involvement as an exchange participant […]

Live Green in Sydney Today

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Kicking off at 10am Sydney time, Live Green (pronounced ‘liv’, not ‘lie-v’ I am told) is an event by the Sydney City Council educating the public on all matters relating to urban green living.
Live Green is a vibrant, new event for the City that demonstrates how we can all learn to live green.
Join us […]

Let’s have a war?

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Writing in The First Post, Robert Matthews argues that Scientists tackling climate change should be put on a war-footing.
Today, many regard global warming as the big scientific problem. They would also insist governments are not taking it seriously enough. The answer may lie in convincing politicians to mount a war against the evil forces of […]

Hot water forces nuclear shutdown.

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

In the USA the Houston Chronical is reporting TVA reactor shut down; cooling water from river too hot.
The Tennessee Valley Authority shut down one of three units at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant Thursday because water drawn from a river to cool the reactor was too hot, a spokesman said.
The nation’s largest public utility shut […]

A history of doubt

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Newsweek is running a fascinating history of coordinated climate change denial in a story The Truth About Denial.

Since the late 1980s, this well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of doubt around climate change. Through advertisements, op-eds, lobbying and media attention, greenhouse doubters (they hate being […]

Don’t Mind the Food Miles

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

There’s been quite a bit of talk about ‘food miles’ lately but, as The New York Times points out in Food That Travels Well, walking-the-walk reveals a different picture. A group at Lincoln University in New Zealand, a country very keen to see food miles discredited it must be noted, conducted a life-cycle analysis […]

The 11th Hour

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

In the wake of the success of An Inconvenient Truth and other climate change docs, The 11th Hour is a new documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio about the state of humanity and the world. As the trailer above shows, this film covers some of the same old climate porn ground as other […]