Last night Australian Anthill Magazine announced the winners of the 2007 ‘Cool Company Awards‘. Carbon Planet was one of 18 finalists out of over 650 entries, and one o 3 finalists in the ‘Social Capitalist’ category. Alas we didn’t win, that honour, in our category, went to the community networking site Our Community, […]
The International Herald Tribune recently hosted a Q & A with Joseph Stiglitz on economics and climate change. The questions came from all over the world and the acclaimed Mr Stiglitz has provided thoughtful and insightful answers. There’s too much detail in the article for me to summarise here so I recommend you […]
Australian activists GetUp are running a campaign to get their latest climate change commercial, shown above, aired during the forthcoming Australian Football League Grand Final being played this coming Saturday.
Carbon Planet has been working with Origin Energy as part of their “Go Green for Footy” programme to audit and offset the greenhouse gas emissions for […]
Al Gore, former next president of the USA, was in town last week and I was lucky enough to get a small slice of his time. Carbon Planet was chosen, in partnership with Origin Energy, to neutralise Mr Gore’s Australian tour. Carbon Planet is working on the emissions audit right now and, when […]
Awrad winning filmmaker Cathy Henkel from Hatchling Productions wanted to make sure that her new film, The Burning Season was a properly carbon neutral production. Cathy contacted Carbon Planet to organise a greenhouse gas emissions audit of the film’s production and to seek advice on ways the crew could ensure they minimised the emission […]
Former Next US President Al Gore will be the guest speaker at the Sydney launch of the FEX-SIM, Sustainability and Cleantech Investment Market; the world’s first market board focused on sustainability and clean-tech investments.
Commerce Carbon Exchange together with Carbon Planet have facilitated the listing of verified carbon credits to be listed on the National Environment […]
Sydney with +6m sea levels. The Sydney Declaration does nothing to prevent this.
Guy Pearse, author of the book High & Dry, sums up the recent ‘Sydney Declaration” (PDF) by APEC members concerning climate change in the Australian political e-zine Crikey APEC & climate change: a whole lot of nothing (subscription required).
The bottom line is […]
There has been a lot of hoo-haa about the so called crisis in the New South Wales NGAS scheme. As Kristen Le Mesurier blogs in More innovators destroyed by botched policy;
On Tuesday NSW Premier Morris Iemma announced what has long been suspected: the State’s first carbon emissions trading scheme is on the brink of […]
I received an email the other day from Rex Rowley at Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas who pointed me to the work they have been doing with sea level rise mapping. They have Google Earth streaming data files for sea level rises of 1 to 6 meters. Their original […]
“Black Balloons” by the Alliance for Climate Protection. Narrated by Tommy Lee Jones.
Bring[s] to life the contribution that each household is making towards climate change and demonstrate some very easy ways to help reduce it while saving money.
This is one of the most imaginative videos I have seen that makes the invisible visible. — […]