Carbon Footprints

Carbon Planet senior emissions auditor Davide Ross wearing our specially made Carbon Planet cycling suit. Photo ©Matthew Curnow and used with permission.
Wednesday 17 October 2007 is Ride to Work Day in Australia.
Government and corporate organisations from around Australia have made the commitment to join this huge event. Estimated participation this year is:

Over 60,000 participants
Over [...]

We’ve done quite a bit of work with large scale data centres over the last year so this article in CNN Money, Server farm goes solar, is opportune. Server farm, AISO.net has unveiled a fully solar powered data centre, powered by 120 solar panels located on two large sets of arrays on either side of [...]

Walking is great! We love it. It’s free, healthy and helps you get to know your neighbourhood better. If more people walked there’d be more incentive for shops to move closer to your home. So it’s exciting that tomorrow, October 5, is International Walk to Work Day.
It’s easy to participate, just [...]

Australian broadcaster SBS Television has launched their Change The World in 5 Minutes short film and photo programme.
Changing the world isn’t just about governments and corporations (though they have their own role to play). It’s about the small things you can do at home, and the changes you can make to your lifestyle. Like replacing [...]

Australian activists GetUp are running a campaign to get their latest climate change commercial, shown above, aired during the forthcoming Australian Football League Grand Final being played this coming Saturday.
Carbon Planet has been working with Origin Energy as part of their “Go Green for Footy” programme to audit and offset the greenhouse gas emissions for [...]

“Black Balloons” by the Alliance for Climate Protection. Narrated by Tommy Lee Jones.
Bring[s] to life the contribution that each household is making towards climate change and demonstrate some very easy ways to help reduce it while saving money.
This is one of the most imaginative videos I have seen that makes the invisible visible. — [...]

Kicking off at 10am Sydney time, Live Green (pronounced ‘liv’, not ‘lie-v’ I am told) is an event by the Sydney City Council educating the public on all matters relating to urban green living.
Live Green is a vibrant, new event for the City that demonstrates how we can all learn to live green.
Join us [...]

Writing in The First Post, Robert Matthews argues that Scientists tackling climate change should be put on a war-footing.
Today, many regard global warming as the big scientific problem. They would also insist governments are not taking it seriously enough. The answer may lie in convincing politicians to mount a war against the evil forces of [...]

In the wake of the success of An Inconvenient Truth and other climate change docs, The 11th Hour is a new documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio about the state of humanity and the world. As the trailer above shows, this film covers some of the same old climate porn ground as other [...]

News aggregator Forbes is reporting Business Group Calls for Climate Action.
The Business Roundtable, which represents 160 chief executives of leading U.S. companies, said that “collective actions” should be taken now to begin reducing heat-trapping “greenhouse” gases that scientists believe are warming the earth.
“The consequences of global warming for society and ecosystems are potentially serious and [...]