Carbon Footprints

I was lucky enough to get the chance to interview Ben Kalina, Associate Producer of the new documentary film A Sea Change. Carbon Planet has been working with Ben and his team to assess the GHG emissions associated with making the film. A Sea Change is the first major documentary to highlight the [...]

Do you work in film, television or new media productions? Do you want to know how to make your film, show or production greener? Carbon Planet and the Rozelle Protocol got together with the Australian Directors’ Guild to produce the How Green Are You Scorecard. It’s all part of the new Production [...]

A couple of years ago Carbon Planet was approached by Ben Kaliner, an American film maker, who was just setting out to make a film on ocean acidification. I met Ben while in the USA for some friends’ wedding and we clicked well. Carbon Planet eagerly put its hand up to be involved [...]

I am very excited to announce that Carbon Planet has been approved as a provider of GreenPower™ for Australian business customers.
What is GreenPower™?
GreenPower™ is a trademark owned by the NSW Department of Water and Energy, who manage the national GreenPower™ Program on behalf of the various states and territories. Certified GreenPower™ consists of Australian Renewable [...]

The 2008 Carbon Market Expo Australasia, being held at the Gold Coast Convention and Entertainment Centre on 30-31 October (ie next week) is shaping up to be huge. Carbon Planet people will be there, staffing a stand (see the floor plan) and I am speaking on the future of the Voluntary Market as part [...]

I was invited by SARDI, the South Australian Research and Development and something starting with I, to give a speech on climate change, the carbon economy and what people can do in their own offices to be more efficient. The above movie is the slideshow for the talk. — DS

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]