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Carbon emissions

What If We Create a Better World For Nothing?

by monkchips on January 7, 2010 · 15 comments

in Carbon emissions, deforestation, desert, ecology

One of my goals in 2010 is to help move the sustainability debate beyond Global Warming. Global Warming or Climate Change is still arguable – while other environmental impacts and issues are not. Its surely time for sustainability advocates to reframe our narrative – and get beyond the Global Warming debate. We [...]

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Seriously people, the correct order is planet first, then people, then profit.

by Tom Raftery on September 7, 2009 · 12 comments

in Carbon emissions

Someone I know and respect made a bit of a boo boo last week and I called him on it. In response to the announcement of BP’s “Giant oil find” in the Gulf of Mexico, he Tweeted:
Giant oil reserver [sic] in the Gulf, most rushing to drill it except the US. Wouldn’t that be ready [...]

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What price carbon emissions?

by Tom Raftery on September 4, 2009 · 5 comments

in Carbon emissions

Photo credit Pinot & Dita
One of the reasons we are facing a climate crisis is because people have not been paying the full economic price for their carbon consumption. Had they been, we’d be living in a very different world today. A quick comparison of average car fuel efficiency in the US versus the [...]

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UK Low Carbon Transition Plan

by Tom Raftery on July 17, 2009 · 2 comments

in Carbon emissions

Earlier this week Ed Miliband, the UK’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change launched The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan.
The plan is comprehensive and lays out several targets for the year 2020:

* More than 1.2 million people will be in green jobs
* more [...]

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RealtimeCarbon.org gives realtime CO2 intensity of electricity generation in the UK

by Tom Raftery on July 17, 2009 · 4 comments

in Carbon emissions

If you actively select for cheaper electricity, you are de facto selecting for greener electricity because cheaper electricity has a higher % of renewable energy in the mix.
I wrote previously that it would be great if utility companies were mandated to publish realtime generation mix (% from coal, % for nuclear, % from wind, etc.). [...]

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Rethinking B2C: Business to (Carbon) Consumer

by monkchips on May 18, 2009 · 2 comments

in Carbon emissions

I was thinking about the term business to consumer (B2C) the other day. I am not a huge fan of the term “consumer” in the digital era- we’re all content creators after all. But I just realised that my notion that we are all producers is even more true in terms of carbon footprint. Whether [...]

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SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer on Carbon Reduction

by Tom Raftery on March 20, 2009 · 12 comments

in Carbon emissions

I was in San Jose last week for for the O’Reilly ETech conference. I had an opportunity to meet SAP’s newly appointed Chief Sustainability Officer, Peter Graf and we discussed SAP’s announced aim of reducing its carbon emissions by 51% by 2020.
Some great stuff in the video – I especially loved the bit where Peter [...]

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Sunday Times and the Google non-story

by Tom Raftery on January 12, 2009 · 2 comments

in Carbon emissions

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Dirty Coal

by Tom Raftery on December 5, 2008 · 0 comments

in Carbon emissions

I came across this ad via Joseph Romm’s excellent post – as Joe said:
[the] ad violates a central rule of messaging, rhetoric, and psychology: Don’t keep repeating a strong word the other side is trying to push. That is not just a basic tenet of the 25-century old art of persuasion, but a well-demonstrated principle [...]

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