Carbon Footprints

I was lucky enough to get the chance to interview Ben Kalina, Associate Producer of the new documentary film A Sea Change. Carbon Planet has been working with Ben and his team to assess the GHG emissions associated with making the film. A Sea Change is the first major documentary to highlight the [...]

Zero Emissions Day is a Global 24 hour Moratorium on Fossil Fuel Combustion to be held globally on 21 September 2009.
The Guidelines are simple:

Don’t use or burn oil or gas or coal.
Minimize (or eliminate) your use of electricity generated by fossil fuels.
Don’t put anyone in harm’s way: All essential and emergency services operate normally.
Do your [...]

Reuters is reporting from Bonn saying “EU: Earth warming faster“.
Global warming is likely to overshoot a 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) rise seen by the European Union and many developing nations as a trigger for “dangerous” change, a Reuters poll of scientists showed on Tuesday.
Nine of 11 experts, who were among authors of the final [...]

The Global Canopy Programme is covering the discussions in Bonn where the topic of avoiding deforestation is on the table. In a blog post called “Forests & the Future Climate Regime” they cite a speech by Johan Eliasch, the UK Prime Minister’s special representative on deforestation and clean energy, and Frances Seymour, Director-General of [...]

Do you work in film, television or new media productions? Do you want to know how to make your film, show or production greener? Carbon Planet and the Rozelle Protocol got together with the Australian Directors’ Guild to produce the How Green Are You Scorecard. It’s all part of the new Production [...]

Okay so it’s not going to win any awards for song-writing, but it gets its point across in a funny, clever way. — DS

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Map showing the Wilkins Ice Shelf
The hot news is that the collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf accelerated last weekend with some major new cracks. The whole shelf now hangs by a thread.
As the Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula, ESA’s Envisat satellite is observing the area [...]

In the UK The Guardian is reporting “UK climate policy not up to scratch, warns CBI“.
Business leaders have delivered a surprise attack on the government’s environmental policy, arguing that ministers are not doing enough to cut global warming emissions or make sure the UK does not run out of power.
The CBI says billions of pounds [...]

A couple of years ago Carbon Planet was approached by Ben Kaliner, an American film maker, who was just setting out to make a film on ocean acidification. I met Ben while in the USA for some friends’ wedding and we clicked well. Carbon Planet eagerly put its hand up to be involved [...]