Carbon Footprints

Beds are Burning, The classic Midnight Oil protest song about Aboriginal Land Rights has been adapted by some of the most famous faces in contemporary pop music to become a stirring call for action in the lead up to COP15 climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December. The lyrics have not ben changed much and [...]

The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, looking back at just how stupid we have been.
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at archive footage from 2007 and [...]

There is a special parliamentary screening of the cinematic release of the film The Burning Season at Parliament House in Sydney tonight. The film’s narrator, Hugh Jackman, will be there apparently. I’ll be there too, happy to share what I know about the technicalities of REDD projects and filmmakers Cathy Henkel and Trish [...]

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 [...]

The Home Project is a new film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. It has been released in full online free of charge. See the complete movie in HD via YouTube.
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources [...]

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 [...]

Okay so it’s not going to win any awards for song-writing, but it gets its point across in a funny, clever way. — DS

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I just watched the most amazing TED talk from 2003, by Bill Gross, founder of IdeaLab and CEO of Energy Innovations. If you watch the whole video above Bill explains the development of his Solar Sunflower and it’s brilliant. In the video he’s using genetic algorithms to optimise old-school tech like Stirling Engines [...]

If you, like me, have ever wondered just how many planes, or how many people, are in the air at any one time then the video above should be interesting for you. This is all of the known aircraft in flight over one 24 hour period. Obviously the USA and EU, being the [...]

If we stay on our current path the Earth will enter a period of ‘runaway global warming’ and no scientist on Earth can predict what the consequences of that will be. — DS

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