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Ten Years!

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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 wins AMI Award for Marketing Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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 [...]

Announcing G3MS 2.1

Friday, August 14th, 2009

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 [...]

Canon reduces emissions by 23% with help from Carbon Planet

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

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 [...]

Opportunities Beyond Carbon

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

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 [...]

Flight Emissions Calculations

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

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 [...]

Be The Change Issue 13

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

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 [...]

GRASS and Carbon Planet at Metro Screen 09

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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 [...]

Carbon Planet joins SCLAA

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

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 [...]

Carbon Planet inks deal with NEC

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

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 [...]