Carbon Footprints

Last month Carbon Planet celebrated its 10th birthday (with cupcakes!) and so we thought we’d update the official Carbon Planet timeline video. Enjoy — DS

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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 [...]

There’s a new book hitting the shelves now called “Opportunities Beyond Carbon“.
The book aims to recast the debate on climate change from one of fear and problems to one of hope and opportunity. It contains a collection of essays from key politicians, investors, business people, activists and academics on how to make the most of [...]

Photo ‘Landing in London’ by Dave Sag and used with permission.
Carbon Planet has always been dedicated to openness and transparency. When dealing with a subject as complex as carbon, and the various ways and means by which emissions are calculated, we’ve always felt that the more information we can share with the world, the [...]

Carbon Planet is pleased to release issue 13 of Be the Change, your resource for news and information on climate change and carbon credits.
In this latest issue we include feature articles:

Obama’s green future
Flight calculators – we clear the air
Climate change vs global warming – what’s the difference?
Energy efficiency gives us triple whammy.

Plus our regular features:

Profile [...]

Emma Lawrence of G.R.A.S.S and The Rozelle Protocol, and our own Chris Wilson from Carbon Planet’s Sydney office were interviewed as part of Metro Screen 09 about how to “Get Real About Sustainable Screens“.
The motion picture industry has been identified as a serious polluter and, to help tackle this problem head-on, Carbon Planet, The Australian [...]

Pressure to measure, manage and minimise carbon pollution is not just coming from green interest groups and forthcoming legislation, it’s coming at many firms simply because of their slot in the supply chains of other companies.
In Australia, serious pressure to deal with carbon pollution is coming from the Government in the form of the forthcoming [...]

I believe in peace in our time. Naive perhaps but I really believe that the coming years will see the shunning of the extremism that has polluted many of the great faiths. I believe that the recent hostilities in the Middle East will simmer down in the coming years as prosperity comes [...]