Carbon Footprints

The New York Times is reporting, in a story Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize, that Dutch electronics giant Philips has announced that it has already developed an LED based light that meets all of the ‘L Prize’s conditions. The bulb is now being tested in what the US Energy Department [...]

It’s no secret that I have been and probably always will be an Apple ‘fan boy’, ever since I laid my hands on my first Apple ][ in 1980. Carbon Planet overwhelmingly uses Apple hardware, including all sorts of Macs, iPhones and run’s Apple’s OS X on most of this hardware. It’s not [...]

CNBC is running a story citing the CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project, “Companies That Cut Carbon Now Will Profit.”
Corporations who are seizing the opportunity to cut carbon emissions now, without government regulation, will profit more when regulation is enacted, a spokesman for a not-for-profit organization that measures companies’ carbon footprint told CNBC Monday.
“There will [...]

Reuters is reporting that “Japan’s next PM raises greenhouse gas target to 25%“. That’s 25% below 1990 levels too, not 2000 levels as advocated by the Australian scheme.
Japanese Prime Minister-elect Yukio Hatoyama said Monday Japan will aim for a 25 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared with 1990 levels.
The target was premised [...]

Photo of Glenelg, Scotland, by Dave Sag and used with permission.
IEEE Spectrum is reporting, in a story “£10 Million Sea Power Challenge“, on a new initiative by the Scottish Government to boost research into technologies that generate power from the sea.
Scotland is finalizing the terms of a contest in wave and tidal energy that takes [...]

There’s a great mashup over at Australian tabloid blog The Punch, where they show the last month’s pattern of extreme weather anomalies using an interactive Google Map. See the originl story at “Australia’s scorching August”
View The Punch – August weather in a larger map
Weather records are often trivial matters, a question of a few tenths [...]