http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog The founder's blog for Carbon Planet Limited. You can be the change® Fri, 09 May 2008 03:47:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A pair of Great TitsThe BBC is reporting some good news on the climate for a change in a story Great tits cope well with warming. Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars. Writing in ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/05/09/great-tits-cope-well-with-warming/ Australia's Future Climate is quite well modeled and the results of that modeling have been made available online.: Our future climate will depend on greenhouse gas emissions, so the regional projections are available for low, mid-range and high greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. These scenarios were developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/05/07/climate-change-in-australia/ On Wednesday I gave a talk at the 2008 Australian Carbon Trading Expo in Melbourne called "The Train is Leaving: Implications for Business of the new Carbon Constrained Economy," which just so happens to be the title of the book I am currently writing. The slides above give you ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/05/02/the-australian-carbon-trading-expo-2008/ Conservative British flagship paper The Times has a great story Top 12 UK farmers' markets. Dirty dozen: the best of Britain's 600 local-produce markets where you can buy muddy carrots and misshapen fruit that tastes as it should. St Giles farmers' market, Shipbourne, KentWinchester farmers’ market, HampshireStroud farmers' market, GloucestershireKings Norton farmers’ ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/04/17/the-best-farmers-markets-in-the-uk/ In 1999 the ABC TV in Australia broadcast an episode of Four Corners, a show whose theme music for is entrenched into the mind of most Australians my age I suspect. This particular episode, the last for the year, was not, as some would guess, about the Y2K bug, ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/04/11/the-tv-show-that-spawned-an-idea/ bikes4work is an advisory service that can help organisations set up workplace bike fleets. Bike fleets can be set up in most workplaces where staff are required to travel on-site, between worksites or within the local area. Benefits to employers include:Productivity increases and lower levels of absenteeism from a healthy ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/04/10/bikes4work-programme-launched/ I'm in China right now getting ready for the start of Carbon Trade China 2008. Asia & Pacific accounted for 80% of carbon trade volume in the CDM market. New projects in Asia increased dramatically.China accounted for 51% of the world's CDM carbon emission credits. During the first three quarters 2007, ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/03/31/hello-from-sunny-shang-hai/ Carbon Planet is about to launch its first Australian corporate seminar series as part of a broader 'Carbon Insights' programme. The first series concerns The Economics of Carbon Management and covers new legislation such as the National Greenhouse and Eenergy Reporting Act 2007, the emergence of an Australian Carbon ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/03/20/carbon-planet-launches-its-first-seminar-series/ It's been just over eight years since we started Carbon Planet. Here's a little bit of history. At the end of 1999 there was a TV show on the Australian current affairs show "Four Corners" titled "Emissions Impossible." This show highlighted the role of Carbon Dioxide in ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/03/17/what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been/ In a press release today (PDF) the Australian Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, announced the draft timetable for the adoption of an Australian national emissions trading scheme. The timetable includes four phases of consultation on key design and implementation issues. March to June 2008 Phase 1 consultation with stakeholders to ... http://www.carbonplanet.com/blog/2008/03/17/timeline-announced-for-development-of-australian-emissions-trading-scheme/