Carbon Footprints

Photo ©2007 Dave Sag and used with permission
Carbon Planet people in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney attended this year’s Walk Against warming last Sunday and it was great fun. In Canberra, where I was, some 9000 people, three times as many as last year, congregated at the fountain in City Walk and listened to [...]

Carbon Planet has been appointed to work with the Clipsal 500 V8 Supercar motor race in a three year contract to audit the greenhouse gas emissions produced by the race, to make on-going recommendations as to how the race can reduce its global warming impact, and to supply sufficient certified carbon credits to ensure [...]

Green Linking offer a service that re-badges Google searches and diverts 20% of all revenue generated through Google Ad click-throughs towards the purchase of certified carbon credits.
Green Linking was created to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to reduce carbon emissions. Green Linking searches are powered by [...]

We used to allow people to comment on stories but I got utterly overwhelmed with comment and trackback spam so I turned comments back off after a month or so. Since then plenty of people have emailed me to suggest solutions to the spam problem. So we recently updated the blog software and [...]

Last night Australian Anthill Magazine announced the winners of the 2007 ‘Cool Company Awards‘. Carbon Planet was one of 18 finalists out of over 650 entries, and one o 3 finalists in the ‘Social Capitalist’ category. Alas we didn’t win, that honour, in our category, went to the community networking site Our Community, [...]

Al Gore, former next president of the USA, was in town last week and I was lucky enough to get a small slice of his time. Carbon Planet was chosen, in partnership with Origin Energy, to neutralise Mr Gore’s Australian tour. Carbon Planet is working on the emissions audit right now and, when [...]

Awrad winning filmmaker Cathy Henkel from Hatchling Productions wanted to make sure that her new film, The Burning Season was a properly carbon neutral production. Cathy contacted Carbon Planet to organise a greenhouse gas emissions audit of the film’s production and to seek advice on ways the crew could ensure they minimised the emission [...]

I was interviewed on the Sky News Channel’s Eco Report show. It screened last weekend and I’ve taken the liberty of posting it up to YouTube for your streaming pleasure.
In the interview I discuss emissions audting, the reasons a company chooses to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions, Carbon Planet’s involvement as an exchange participant [...]

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 [...]

We are very excited to announce that last Saturday in Adelaide, Vivienne, our amazing marketing strategist, successfully gave birth to a healthy young chap called Emmanuel.
Our best wishes and congratulations to our newest mum, dad and baby. — DS

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