Archive for November, 2007

Taking the climate bull by the horns

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Australia has just undergone a regime change, having shaken off the yoke of a brutal, heartless despot in favour of what many fear amounts to the same wine in a different bottle. A core-promose of the Kevin07 campaign was the immediate ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. Melbourne’s The Age explains The challenge: […]

Guyana in World’s biggest offset deal.

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The UK’s Independent is reporting on Guyana’s offer for the British to ‘Take over our rainforest‘.
[Guyana,] The former British colony, sandwiched between Venezuela and Brazil, is home to fewer than a million people but it is also home to an intact rainforest larger than England. In a dramatic offer, the government of Guyana has said […]

Carbon Planet’s latest website overhaul.

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Carbon Planet’s website has just undergone a total overhaul, and despite the fact that it looks very similar, the changes are deep, and profound. For a start you can finally actually elect to save all of your details such that when you come back to buy another flight offset, or whatever, you don’t need to […]

Message in a Bottle

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Greenpeace International have launched their latest video project, Message In a Bottle.
Want to be part of a Greenpeace action? Help us pass a message around the world! We all need to act, but this December people representing YOU will attend a vital UN climate meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Let’s all let them know that we […]

“Warming is happening faster than anyone predicted.”

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

And in today’s bad news corner the UK’s The Guardian has a story Millions of jobs at risk from climate change - U.N.. Clearly they don’t mean jobs at the UN. They point out what is fairly obvious, that climate change is impacting tourism and fisheries, but then acknowledge that;
At the same time, […]

Walk Against Warming was great!

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Photo ©2007 Dave Sag and used with permission
Carbon Planet people in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney attended this year’s Walk Against warming last Sunday and it was great fun. In Canberra, where I was, some 9000 people, three times as many as last year, congregated at the fountain in City Walk and listened to […]

Carbon Neutral Car Racing

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Carbon Planet has been appointed to work with the Clipsal 500 V8 Supercar motor race in a three year contract to audit the greenhouse gas emissions produced by the race, to make on-going recommendations as to how the race can reduce its global warming impact, and to supply sufficient certified carbon […]