Carbon Footprints

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 [...]

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is about to screen Crude at 8:30pm Thursday, 24 May 2007 in Australia.
From the food on our tables to the fuel in our cars, crude oil seeps invisibly into almost every part of our modern lives. It is the energy source and raw material that drives transport and the economy. Yet [...]

There’s an article by Fred Pearce in this week’s dead-tree edition of New Scientist called Look, no carbon footprint! (subscription required) which raises many valid concerns about the whole carbon offset industry.
There are two kinds of offset. Official offsets - sanctioned under the Kyoto protocol - allow governments and companies to earn carbon credits that [...]

The Sheffield Doc/Fest is one of the world’s major documentary festivals and last year Carbon Planet helped them measure their CO2 emissions, gave them a host of recommendations as to how to reduce their CO2 footprint, and then sourced the carbon credits they needed to reduce the whole event’s footprint to zero.

The film above gives [...]

Every so often we get an email from someone who raises an interesting point. In this case a person called Chris asked us:
How can you be so stupid as to believe in mans role in global warming. Have you ever heard of increased solar activity.You dummies will be proven wrong. I must say I [...]

Recruiting is a terribly cut-throat business; not for nothing they are called “head hunters”. The boutique recruitment agency Management Resource Consulting, based in Adelaide, decided that one way of reinforcing its strong ethical sense, and thus differentiating itself from other agencies, was to take responsibility for the greenhouse gas emissions associated with its operations.
Carbon [...]

I’ve made no secret of our love of Apple’s computers. Indeed we have managed to achieve fabulous carbon emissions savings by using software like iChat to hold virtual meetings in lieu of travelling. Well Apple were impressed it seems and wrote up a fabulous 4 page case study on our business. Mac Computing [...]

The Adelaide Film Festival launched on Friday with the announcement that it will be Australia’s first CO2 free™ film festival
The 2007 Adelaide Film Festival will lead the way as the first CO2 free™ film festival in Australia, thanks to the support of Carbon Planet. Reflecting their innovative and ground-breaking style, the AFF are keen to [...]

Today is Carbon Planet’s 7th birthday. We started the company on 12 January 2000 with fairly modest aims and an even more modest clue about what it actually meant to offset carbon emissions. We spent 5 years working that out, negotiating with suppliers of carbon credits and talking to lots of people about [...]

The Foofshop hand-make customised protective sleeves for many popular consumer electronic devices such as iPods, Apple laptops and handheld gaming systems like the PSP and Nintendo DS. Foof contacted Carbon Planet earlier this year and we performed a comprehensive CO2 emissions audit on their operations and distribution. (download the PDF).
Foof’s managers have decided to [...]