On Wednesday I gave a talk at the 2008 Australian Carbon Trading Expo in Melbourne called “The Train is Leaving: Implications for Business of the new Carbon Constrained Economy,” which just so happens to be the title of the book I am currently writing. The slides above give you some idea of what I […]
Geo-Location of the IP of the sender of the email.
We get a lot of email from the general public here at Carbon Planet and some of it even makes sense. This email is fairly typical and I’d reprint it in full but for the sailor-talk. I am not prude, and find swearing as […]
This morning I gave a speech to a collection of building managers, funds managers and facilities managers about the implications of climate change on the building industry. The talk was hosted by Maureen, CEO of Ndevr Pty Ltd who presented on systems for data capture. The other presenter was Julian from Dexus Property […]
Photo ©2006 Dave Sag. Used with permission
Every so often we get an email enquiry that raises some very valid concerns. In this case we received an email from a chap who claims that there is “no way that a first class passenger is responsible for 3 times the carbon emissions of an economy passenger.”
He […]
Matt and Dave at Carbon Planet’s Summernats stand
Cars, big loud cars, are an Australian cultural tradition. Every year some 150,000 people, car lovers all, descend upon the nation’s capital, Canberra, for a week of high-octane engines, burning tyres, white smoke and wet t-shirt competitions. V-8 cars compete for attention with spoiler-laden trucks, drag […]
Last Friday I was invited to explain the work we have been doing for global leasing giant Interleasing to a gathering of their Sydney management and staff. Kim Witkowski, the National Marketing Manager, gave me six topics to address:
what is carbon neutral
global trends
green consumerism
where does the money go
vehicle makers
band-aid or genuine carbon saving?
Here’s […]
Lighting uses almost one fifth of all power consumed in the world. Switching to low energy lighting could cut this by 40%. These and other interesting facts were revealed this afternoon by Mr Harry Verhaar, Senior Director of Climate Change at Royal Dutch Philips Lighting in a telephone conversation. Harry is in […]
One of my favourite papers, the UK’s Financial Times is reporting Carbon trading shakes off early troubles
Carbon trading has always been one of the key planks of the global strategy to arrest the amount of greenhouse gases we pump into the atmosphere.
And in spite of some teething troubles as we approach 2008 and the next […]