Archive for the 'Carbon Planet News' Category

Live Green in Sydney Today

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

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 [...]

Congratulation and welcome to the world.

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

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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TickGreen authenticates the greenness of your website.

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

If you look down the very bottom of our site you’ll see a little . That image, when you click on it, opens a window that authenticates the code with the owner of code, and certifies that the emissions associated with running of the web-site have been properly offset. Carbon Planet was chosen by [...]

Video Conferencing saves money, time and carbon.

Friday, June 8th, 2007

This is the first time I have ever had a 5 way chat on iChat - now of course the two developers, Tom and Bruno, were in the one room together but still it’s impressivly simple to get Dallas (graphic designer) who’s at home, Jesse (incoming CTO) who’s in the Sydney Carbon Planet office, Tom [...]

Speech at the Brassey Hotel in Canberra

Friday, June 8th, 2007

I was invited to give a speech about climate change and business at the Brassey Hotel in Canberra. This was also organised by Glen Frost of Frocomm and once again I am grateful for the chance to communicate our message. True to form, and to my mission, I rode my bike in the [...]

Presentation at the American Club

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

I was invited to give a short talk last night at the American Club in Sydney. Since I was in Sydney anyway it seemed like a great idea and I am really glad I went along. The audience, a mix of corporates, not-for-profits and generally interested parties put up with me giving a [...]

Happy World Environment Day

Monday, June 4th, 2007

The theme of the 2007 World Environment Day is Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?.
The day’s agenda is to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development; promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues; and advocate partnership, which will [...]

Improvements to the Carbon Planet web

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

We’ve been busy little beavers here at Carbon Planet, and have rolled out a lot of changes to our public web-site.
Forestry or Carbon Saving, now the choice is yours.
First up you have been asking us for a wider variety of carbon credits. Many of you have told us that, for whatever reasons, forestry just [...]

Greencode Panel at GFFIS 2007

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

The panel discussion about the Greencode Project went off very well at GFFIS yesterday. Marie-France Còté from Canada spoke about the origins of the project, its goals and achievements so far. Then I spoke about Carbon Planet’s involvement in the project and about carbon emissions auditing of films and television productions. Finally [...]

The Greencode Project goes to Korea

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Carbon Planet was one of the founding supporters of the Greencode Project, which aims to address the fact that the screen industries are responsible for a terrible amount of environmental damage. Carbon Planet has devised carbon emissions auditing and reduction services specifically tailored to the film and television industry and has been an enthusiastic [...]