Carbon Footprints

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]