Carbon Footprints

Zero Emissions Day is a Global 24 hour Moratorium on Fossil Fuel Combustion to be held globally on 21 September 2009.
The Guidelines are simple:

Don’t use or burn oil or gas or coal.
Minimize (or eliminate) your use of electricity generated by fossil fuels.
Don’t put anyone in harm’s way: All essential and emergency services operate normally.
Do your [...]

In the interview above, Connecting climate change and economic recovery, Sir Nicholas Stern, author of the famous Stern Review on the economic consequences of climate change, discusses the economic downturn and its effect on the climate change agenda.
The economic slowdown has prompted some public and private leaders to question whether the world can afford to [...]

The Australian Government released its controversial Carbon Pollution Reduction Schemedraft legislation today and I thought it best to explain as simply as possible how it works.
Download a PDF version of this diagram with more details.
The Government makes the political decision to reduce targets according to some trajectory. Not wishing to pick favourites the [...]

I just watched the most amazing TED talk from 2003, by Bill Gross, founder of IdeaLab and CEO of Energy Innovations. If you watch the whole video above Bill explains the development of his Solar Sunflower and it’s brilliant. In the video he’s using genetic algorithms to optimise old-school tech like Stirling Engines [...]

Reuters is reporting on a new Google tool helps consumers reduce energy usage.
On its official company blog, Google said it is developing a smart grid tool called Google PowerMeter that will show home energy consumption almost in real time on a user’s computer.
Google PowerMeter is currently being tested by employees and is not yet available [...]

The Toronto Sun is reporting in a story Window of Opportunity that US President Obama has just four years to turn climate change around.
“(Obama’s) four-year administration offers the world a last chance to get things right,” said James Hansen [NASA's top climate scientist, director of the Goddard Institute for Space and an adjunct professor of [...]

“We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf and burning it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that has to change.”

Nobel Prize winner, former US Vice-President and long-term climate activist Al Gore addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the strong links between the climate crisis, the economic [...]

The Environment News Service is reporting Without Delay: Congress to Fast-Track Climate Legislation.
WASHINGTON, DC, January 15, 2009 (ENS) – The heads of some of America’s largest corporations together with the leaders of five of the country’s largest environmental groups today presented a joint plan to Congress for climate protection legislation. Congressional Democrats met their call [...]

US President -elect Barack Obama gave the first of his weekly addresses to the nation and declared ‘that his administration would mark a “new chapter in American leadership on climate change.”‘
“Few challenges facing America — and the world — are more urgent than combating climate change,” he said. “Many of you are working to confront [...]

David Gallo, one of the first oceanographers to use a combination of manned submersibles and robots to map the ocean world with unprecedented clarity and detail, gives an astounding talk at TED called Underwater astonishments. It’s important, with all of this talk of the economics of climate change, to remind ourselves of the total [...]