Carbon Footprints

I received an email the other day from Rex Rowley at Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas who pointed me to the work they have been doing with sea level rise mapping. They have Google Earth streaming data files for sea level rises of 1 to 6 meters. Their original [...]

“Black Balloons” by the Alliance for Climate Protection. Narrated by Tommy Lee Jones.
Bring[s] to life the contribution that each household is making towards climate change and demonstrate some very easy ways to help reduce it while saving money.
This is one of the most imaginative videos I have seen that makes the invisible visible. — [...]

I was interviewed on the Sky News Channel’s Eco Report show. It screened last weekend and I’ve taken the liberty of posting it up to YouTube for your streaming pleasure.
In the interview I discuss emissions audting, the reasons a company chooses to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions, Carbon Planet’s involvement as an exchange participant [...]

In the wake of the success of An Inconvenient Truth and other climate change docs, The 11th Hour is a new documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio about the state of humanity and the world. As the trailer above shows, this film covers some of the same old climate porn ground as other [...]

VideoJug: Global Warming Basics
Dr Micahel Oppenheimer explains the basics of global warming, care of VideoJug. He covers a lot of ground in a very clear and calm manner. What is “global warming”, how will climate in the future be different, is the sun a major contributor to global warming, is global wamring happening right [...]

Video from TED
Architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "All children, all species, for all time." A tireless proponent of absolute sustainability (with a deadpan sense of humor), he explains his philosophy of "cradle to cradle" design, which bridge the needs of [...]

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 [...]

Australia’s Government run Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been screening a series of panel discussions on a show called Difference Of Opinion - Cool Heads In A Warm World.
Australia is one of the world’s biggest emitters of CO2 per head of population. With polls suggesting that up to 70% of us want something done [...]

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 [...]

Okay so Kian over at Eco-Chick didn’t find Sarah Silverman’s “A Very Convenient Truth” so funny, but I really think it’s important to retain both a sense of humour, and a sense of perspective. Sarah uses humour to get across the same points as Gore, using the same footage, but is utterly lampooning herself [...]