In the UK The Times‘ Caitlin Moran has written an hillarious story A plague on all your houses’ hated kitchen gadgets and I couldn’t agree more. One of the biggest drivers of waste, carbon emissions and pollution in general is this drive we seem to have to fill up our houses with crap we […]
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Australian activist group GetUp is pimping this year’s Walk Against Warming to be held on 11 November at 1pm in every city and town in Australia.
Last year, more than 100,000 people nationwide got together to walk for the climate action solutions we know exist, many of whom had never marched before. All you have to […]
Canada’s Financial Post has a story, Carbon catastrophe, attacking the Kyoto protocol and the trading of carbon credits. Alas for the writer it’s simply wrong. I don’t usually respond to the rubbish I read in the press, knowing full well that most people just don’t buy the arguments used by climate change deniers. […]
There is an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that addresses something that has confused me for a while. In Climate-change apathy driven by fear, resentment, columnist Jay Bookman explains:
Climate change poses a myriad of difficult challenges — scientific, political, economic and technological. But more important than any of that, it poses a […]
Carbon Planet has been seeing a huge upturn in interest in avoided deforestation carbon credits. Explaining this idea, the Environmental News Network is reporting Rainforest coalition proposes rewards for ‘avoided deforestation’.
The Coalition of Rainforest Nations, led by Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have told the UN climate […]
In the UK The Guardian has a story The unheralded polluter: cement industry comes clean on its impact, talking about a recent EU summit of concrete producers. Chief Executives and other senior concrete industry leaders met recently in Brussels to discuss the impact of their industry on climate change.
No company will make carbon-neutral cement […]
Carbon Planet senior emissions auditor Davide Ross wearing our specially made Carbon Planet cycling suit. Photo ©Matthew Curnow and used with permission.
Wednesday 17 October 2007 is Ride to Work Day in Australia.
Government and corporate organisations from around Australia have made the commitment to join this huge event. Estimated participation this year is:
Over 60,000 participants
Over […]
Australia’s The Sydney Morning Herald ran a story the other day, buried deep in the paper, Greenhouse gas levels ‘dangerously high’.
Acclaimed author and scientist Tim Flannery said results of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) synthesis report, due for release next month, show that since 2005 Australia has already been producing the amount of […]
Burning rain forest in the Amazon, Para, Brazil. Photo by Julio Etchart, used with permission.
Almost one fifth of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed to date according to an article on Mongabay.com titled Fires rage in Amazon rainforest park.
In 2005 and 2006 the Amazon experienced the worst drought on record as thousands of square kilometers […]