Archive for the 'Carbon Planet News' Category

Carbon Planet is officially Greenhouse Friendly™

Monday, June 30th, 2008

It’s official! Carbon Planet’s operations and services have been officially certified as Greenhouse Friendly™ by the Australian federal Department of Climate Change. What does this mean?
Products and services which are certified as Greenhouse Friendly™ are eligible to be labeled with the Greenhouse Friendly™ Certification Logo.
Under a rigorous certification process based on the principles [...]

Be The Change Issue 9 is out

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

In this issue we include feature articles:

The lowdown on Biofuels
The Hummer vs Prius Debate
Outrageous Wasters - a special article from our co-founder Dr Ross Williams

Plus our regular features:

Profile of a planet saving superhero - Meredith Henderson
Profile of a newly sustainable business - Caravan Pictures
Useful tips for saving the planet
How to talk to a climate skeptic

And [...]

The TV Show that spawned an idea.

Friday, April 11th, 2008

In 1999 the ABC TV in Australia broadcast an episode of Four Corners, a show whose theme music for is entrenched into the mind of most Australians my age I suspect. This particular episode, the last for the year, was not, as some would guess, about the Y2K bug, but concerned global warming. [...]

Hello from sunny Shang Hai

Monday, March 31st, 2008

I’m in China right now getting ready for the start of Carbon Trade China 2008.
Asia & Pacific accounted for 80% of carbon trade volume in the CDM market. New projects in Asia increased dramatically.China accounted for 51% of the world’s CDM carbon emission credits. During the first three quarters 2007, the number of CDM projects [...]

Carbon Planet launches its first Seminar Series

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Carbon Planet is about to launch its first Australian corporate seminar series as part of a broader ‘Carbon Insights’ programme. The first series concerns The Economics of Carbon Management and covers new legislation such as the National Greenhouse and Eenergy Reporting Act 2007, the emergence of an Australian Carbon Trading Scheme, and the implications [...]

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

Monday, March 17th, 2008

It’s been just over eight years since we started Carbon Planet. Here’s a little bit of history. At the end of 1999 there was a TV show on the Australian current affairs show “Four Corners” titled “Emissions Impossible.” This show highlighted the role of Carbon Dioxide in the heating of the planet, [...]

Carbon Planet launches a major Website Overhaul

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Screen snap of Carbon Planet’s new look website
It’s official! Carbon Planet’s marketing team, an army of graphic designers and the web development team have been busy for the last two months rethinking and re-implementing how we communicate to both corporate and consumer audiences alike. I am very pleased to announce that about five [...]

Understanding the footprint of a crash repair shop

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Video extracted and used with permission from IAG Insurance
Carbon Planet worked with IAG Insurance to audit the carbon emissions associated with typical accident repair centre, in this case the Bayside and Whitehorse Accident Repair Centres in Sydney. The video above is extracted from an in-house DVD prepared by IAG’s team to communicate what we [...]

Carbon management and Corporate Social Responsibility

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Slides from the talk I gave to the CSR special interest group of the AIM
Last night I was privileged to be able to give a talk to the Corporate Social Responsibility special interest group of the Australian Institute of Management. The organisers claim that it was one of the most well attended talks they [...]

Carbon Planet’s latest website overhaul.

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Carbon Planet’s website has just undergone a total overhaul, and despite the fact that it looks very similar, the changes are deep, and profound. For a start you can finally actually elect to save all of your details such that when you come back to buy another flight offset, or whatever, you don’t need to [...]