Carbon Footprints

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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From my friends at Freerange Studios. Enjoy and don’t make December 25th your very own “turn it up day”.
To find out more about how coal mining companies are literally ripping the very tops of mountains, you can use Google Earth to see before and after images, or check out the I Love Mountains website. [...]

David Gallo, one of the first oceanographers to use a combination of manned submersibles and robots to map the ocean world with unprecedented clarity and detail, gives an astounding talk at TED called Underwater astonishments. It’s important, with all of this talk of the economics of climate change, to remind ourselves of the total [...]