Carbon Footprints

1st Media Briefing at COP15. Photo by Dave Sag, used with Permission.
I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to write on climate change and other topics for several years now, but I’ve never really thought of myself as a journalist. But the UNFCCC, in their wisdom, thought otherwise, so here I am [...]

While much of the public debate in Australia has been over the Government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, quietly, in the background, the federal department of Climate Change has been plugging away on the National Carbon Offset Standard, known in the biz as the NCOS. The NCOS supplements the forthcoming CPRS by giving Australian businesses [...]

With less than 7 weeks now to go until COP15 climate change talks start in Copenhagen, the Hopenhagen project is gaining momentum.
When you go to the Hopenhagen website and sign their petition, you get to add a message of hope to the system. As you watch the map, the various messages pop up all [...]

One of Australia’s most brilliant economists, Professor Ross Garnaut, answers questions after a speech on the economics of climate change at ANU last year.
I recently had the opportunity to write a couple of guest posts for the Brisbane based Courier Mail’s Green Blog. (See Part 1 and Part 2). Some of the comments [...]

Beds are Burning, The classic Midnight Oil protest song about Aboriginal Land Rights has been adapted by some of the most famous faces in contemporary pop music to become a stirring call for action in the lead up to COP15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December. The lyrics have not ben changed much and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]