Carbon Footprints

Bloomburg is reporting “Global Warming Bill With Cap-and-Trade Plan Gains Committee Nod“, saying
A House committee passed a climate-change measure that would create a cap-and-trade system to control greenhouse-gas emissions, the most comprehensive effort yet by the U.S. to tackle global warming.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday approved the bill 33-25, with one Republican joining [...]

I love Greenpeace and donate regularly but sometimes they come out with some terrible ideas and today’s is a doozy. Business eZine FastCompany is reporting that “Forest Credits Could Crash The Price of Carbon, Greenpeace Says“. They of course neglect to explain that, even if it were true, and I doubt it, lower [...]

Pressure to measure, manage and minimise carbon pollution is not just coming from green interest groups and forthcoming legislation, it’s coming at many firms simply because of their slot in the supply chains of other companies.
In Australia, serious pressure to deal with carbon pollution is coming from the Government in the form of the forthcoming [...]

I believe in peace in our time. Naive perhaps but I really believe that the coming years will see the shunning of the extremism that has polluted many of the great faiths. I believe that the recent hostilities in the Middle East will simmer down in the coming years as prosperity comes [...]

Hack a Hand-crank Flashlight

I love this sort of thing. I am always charging something, my iPhone, my laptop, my Wife’s 9 year old mobile that only holds charge for a few days (but she loves and won’t upgrade until it really truly dies). So being able to charge these devices without drawing off [...]