Carbon Footprints

Clipping from the letter from the DCCEE
The Australian Federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has officially re-certified Carbon Planet’s operations and services as being carbon neutral under the soon to expire Greenhouse Friendly™ programme.
We were the first carbon management company ever to have its operations and services awarded Greenhouse Friendly™ certification and today’s [...]

Carbon Planet’s primary schools programme, Operation:Coolenation® scored a visit yesterday from Mel Hawksley and Kim Oliver, two Bachelor of Education students from the University of South Australia, who wanted to experience first hand a day in the life of the Cooelnation project. They had this to say:
As University of South Australia students coming to [...]

Protect the environment or I’ll f*#%’n kill you!
Frustrated media mogul Ted Turner becomes Captain Planet and takes direct action. Hilarious. — DS

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Wow I just reduced carbon emissions in the UK by 45% from current levels. How? Well I closed all its coal fired power stations, and then closed oil and gas fired power too. I shut half of the UK’s nuclear reactors and built some massive solar and offshore wind farms. I [...]

The Ted Talk above by Shai Agassi is all the more remarkable given it was given in 2009 and, since then, his vision is starting to be rolled out. The Better Place network is being rolled out in Canberra, where I live, and the Renault Fluence electric car that uses Better Place’s charging system [...]

GreenAnswers is a new social question and answer site dedicated to environmental issues. I had a short chat with Jacob Lipman, the founder of the site, who explained:
The impetus for GreenAnswers was the realization that a lack of widespread knowledge about environmental issues is one of the greatest hurdles to positive action. We created GreenAnswers [...]

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 [...]

Simon from Carbon Planet at the Carbon Markets Expo Stand at the Gold Coast
It’s Carbon Markets Expo time again at the Gold Coast and, as usual, Carbon Planet is there. I’m speaking today on the role of the Voluntary Carbon Markets if you happen to be passing the Gold Coast’s Convention Centre.
The Expo is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]