Carbon Footprints

Carbon Planet is the 2009 South Australian winner of The Australian Marketing Institute’s award for Marketing Excellence in the Corporate Social Responsibility category for its innovative primary schools education programme, Operation: Coolenation.
Operation: Coolenation is an effective and enjoyable tool for communicating the science of global warming and climate change to primary school students. The programme [...]

New Scientist is reporting, in a story “As Arctic Ocean warms, megatonnes of methane bubble up“, that one of the key tipping points we, and other climate science groups have been predicting for a long time is now actually happening.
Over 250 plumes of gas have been discovered bubbling up from the sea floor to the [...]

I’ve been comparing climate change to the Y2K bug for a long time, but not in a climate change denying way, more in a, ‘Look we actually got our acts together and solved the Y2K bug, and patched or upgraded pretty much every computer in the world,‘ kind of way. Take this story in [...]

G3MS, Carbon Planet’s Greenhouse Emissions Measure, Manage, Minimise Suite, is the foremost collaborative carbon management suite featuring simple, yet standards compliant workflows for co-ordinating your carbon reporting requirements. G3MS 2.1 is an evolution to the system and builds on features introduced in 2.0. Mostly this release includes optimisations and improvements under the hood, but there [...]

IT news service IT Brief is reporting that “Canon leads by example with green initiative“, having reduced its emissions in New Zealand by a massive 23% in the last year.
The result comes mostly from reductions in staff travel, utilities and third-party services. Of particular note, Canon reduced its air travel by 35% between 2007 and [...]