Social network sites have traditionally been seen as either playthings for bored office workers, dating site equivalents for lusty students, helper kits internet-stalkers or fronts for the CIA, but today I think I actually found something useful in facebook. Carpooling.
Previously, online ride-sharing was a risky and difficult endeavour for any user. Finding a ride [...]
AFT is reporting on the final tense negotiations during the final hours of the Bali COP13 conference that concluded this weekend. Global warming pact set for 2009 after US backs down.
World climate negotiators set a 2009 deadline Saturday for a landmark treaty to fight global warming after two weeks of intense haggling led to [...]
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 [...]
The USA is now the only remaining opponent to taking action on climate change.
It’s official; The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting Rudd becomes PM, ratifies Kyoto.
Mr Rudd’s first act after taking his oath of office was to sign the instrument of ratification for Kyoto, the international agreement which commits countries to targets for reducing or [...]
Greenpeace International have launched their latest video project, Message In a Bottle.
Want to be part of a Greenpeace action? Help us pass a message around the world! We all need to act, but this December people representing YOU will attend a vital UN climate meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Let’s all let them know that we [...]
Photo ©2007 Dave Sag and used with permission
Carbon Planet people in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney attended this year’s Walk Against warming last Sunday and it was great fun. In Canberra, where I was, some 9000 people, three times as many as last year, congregated at the fountain in City Walk and listened to [...]
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Green Linking was created to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to reduce carbon emissions. Green Linking searches are powered by [...]
Australian activist group GetUp is pimping this year’s Walk Against Warming to be held on 11 November at 1pm in every city and town in Australia.
Last year, more than 100,000 people nationwide got together to walk for the climate action solutions we know exist, many of whom had never marched before. All you have to [...]
Canada’s Financial Post has a story, Carbon catastrophe, attacking the Kyoto protocol and the trading of carbon credits. Alas for the writer it’s simply wrong. I don’t usually respond to the rubbish I read in the press, knowing full well that most people just don’t buy the arguments used by climate change deniers. [...]
There is an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that addresses something that has confused me for a while. In Climate-change apathy driven by fear, resentment, columnist Jay Bookman explains:
Climate change poses a myriad of difficult challenges — scientific, political, economic and technological. But more important than any of that, it poses a [...]