Carbon Footprints

There’s a story in New Scientist, Long-life solar cells.
Polymer solar cells used to convert sunlight to electricity are degraded by ultraviolet light, which limits their lifespan.
Yang Yang, a materials scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, US, has a simple solution. He suggests coating the solar cell with a material that converts ultraviolet photons [...]

Slides from the talk I gave to the CSR special interest group of the AIM
Last night I was privileged to be able to give a talk to the Corporate Social Responsibility special interest group of the Australian Institute of Management. The organisers claim that it was one of the most well attended talks they [...]

In April 2007, Professor Garnaut, a Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, was commissioned by the Australian States and Territories, and more recently the Commonwealth Government, to undertake a review examining the impact of climate change on the Australian economy and potential medium to [...]

There’s a story over at Virginia Tech in the USA, Lamp lit by gravity wins Greener Gadget award, about an industrial design student there who has developed a gravity powered LED lamp called Gravia.
Clay Moulton of Springfield, Va., who received his master of science degree in architecture (concentration in industrial design) from the College of [...]

A Field of Marijuana. Photo ©Bart Pogoda and used with permission.
I lived in Amsterdam for some years and got to know many cannabis growers. These farmers, mostly based in Switzerland, do not grow “industrial” (ie low THC) hemp, but they do grow cannabis in industrial quantities. I do tend to use the [...]

I was lucky enough to meet Louis Fox, head of Free Range Studios at a conference in Korea last year and I am totally hooked on the stuff his studio makes. The Story of Stuff is the latest from the people that brought you The Meatrix and other brilliant, socially aware short films.
What is [...]

Koyanisqatsi is one of the most remarkable films ever made and this particular piece, Vessels, popped up while surfing through YouTube recently. It’s not really a climate change film, or even about climate change, but, watching this clip again, it’s just so damn relevant 25 or so years after it was first released. [...]