Carbon Footprints

The New York Times is reporting Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost.
Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google’s co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels, which are made using a technique that is being held out as the future of solar power manufacturing.
The [...]

5 year old Elanore was confused; wasn’t Santa real? I’m afraid not Elle, I explained gently. Santa is the first of many ticks we adults play on you kids. But you weren’t ’sposed to find that out until you were 7. Let’s not tell Anna said Elle and I agreed.
A man [...]

Last Friday I was invited to explain the work we have been doing for global leasing giant Interleasing to a gathering of their Sydney management and staff. Kim Witkowski, the National Marketing Manager, gave me six topics to address:

what is carbon neutral
global trends
green consumerism
where does the money go
vehicle makers
band-aid or genuine carbon saving?

Here’s [...]

AFT is reporting on the final tense negotiations during the final hours of the Bali COP13 conference that concluded this weekend. Global warming pact set for 2009 after US backs down.
World climate negotiators set a 2009 deadline Saturday for a landmark treaty to fight global warming after two weeks of intense haggling led to [...]

Lighting uses almost one fifth of all power consumed in the world. Switching to low energy lighting could cut this by 40%. These and other interesting facts were revealed this afternoon by Mr Harry Verhaar, Senior Director of Climate Change at Royal Dutch Philips Lighting in a telephone conversation. Harry is in [...]

The USA is now the only remaining opponent to taking action on climate change.
It’s official; The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting Rudd becomes PM, ratifies Kyoto.
Mr Rudd’s first act after taking his oath of office was to sign the instrument of ratification for Kyoto, the international agreement which commits countries to targets for reducing or [...]

One of my favourite papers, the UK’s Financial Times is reporting Carbon trading shakes off early troubles
Carbon trading has always been one of the key planks of the global strategy to arrest the amount of greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere.
And in spite of some teething troubles as we approach 2008 and the next [...]