Carbon Footprints

Transport 2.0 is showing off the latest Lotus concept car, the Eco Elise: A new type of ‘green’ car:
Lotus have gone for a different type of ‘green’ by announcing an ‘Eco Elise’ made largely out of hemp… No need to check your calendar, it’s not April 1. The theory behind this radical new approach is [...]

In a decision akin to a red rag to a bull, a British Jury has decided that the threat of global warming justifies breaking the law.
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In [...]

I am very excited to let you know that Carbon Planet is a finalist in the 2008 Australian Anthill Cool Company Awards! We were nominated in both the Social Capitalist category for Carbon Planet as a whole, and in the Commercial Creativity category for our primary school education programme, Operation: Coolenation. Amazingly we [...]

I came across this today at the Groovy Green Blog. Even when I was a school kid, before I’d heard of Calvin and Hobbes I’d heard of the greenhouse effect. We used to call it the sh1thouse effect back then but heck, we were school kids so what the hell did we know.
The [...]

The BBC is reporting Warming boosts strongest storms
The strongest tropical storms are becoming even stronger as the world’s oceans warm, scientists have confirmed.
Analysis of satellite data shows that in the last 25 years, strong cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons have become more frequent in most of the tropics.
Every day the science hardens, putting paid to the [...]

Severn Suzuki gave this speech to the UN in 1992, aged 12. It’s so impassioned, so adult in its delivery, yet emphasises over and over that she is “just a child.” To think that so many years have passed and so little done to fix the problems she so clearly identified back then. [...]

Reuters is running a story Massive Arctic ice shelf breaks away, saying
A huge 19 square mile (55 square km) ice shelf in Canada’s northern Arctic broke away last month and the remaining shelves have shrunk at a “massive and disturbing” rate, the latest sign of accelerating climate change in the remote region, scientists said on [...]