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Carbon Accounting in New Zealand

Carbon trading is making headlines in New Zealand with changes to the way the government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will be phased in over the next few years. Even with the delays, the ETS will come in to effect for liquid fuels in 2011 ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, WorldChanging,  14 May 2008

Pangea Day Film Event is This Weekend

What's fascinating is that Pangea Day is so largely a community event. Despite Nokia's sponsorship and a fair amount of celebrity involvement, the majority of Pangea Day events ('Friends of Pangea Day Events") are making use of willing grassroots ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, WorldChanging,  5 May 2008
Related Topics: NASA

Measuring Genuine Progress

1. Economic satisfaction (savings, debt and purchase power) 2. Environmental satisfaction: (pollution, noise and traffic) 3. Workplace satisfaction (job satisfaction, motivation, ethics, conflict, etc.) 4. Physical health (Severe illnesses, ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, Eyebeam reBlog,  28 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Bright Green Marketing Practices

It's nothing new that the relationship between marketers and their potential customers can be a bit strained at times. There's probably been at least a few times in your life that you've felt annoyed about the way advertisers are approaching you. If ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, WorldChanging,  21 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Meat and the Biofuels Debate

Each day, 820 million people in the developing world do not have enough food to eat. Food prices around the world are shooting up, sparking food riots from Mexico to Morocco. And the World Food Program warned last week that rapidly rising costs are ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, WorldChanging,  7 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Cornell University

Carbon Neutral by 2020

When I show people this book, the title alone is often enough to launch them into a uncontrollable tirade about how it's not possible. But carbon neutrality is quite straight forward, and something very possible indeed. 1. Account for your carbon ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, WorldChanging,  31 Mar 2008

How to run a Carbon Neutral Power Company - today.

The company that generates the largest proportion of New Zealand's electricity has been certified carbon neutral for more than a year. Meridian Energy generates around a third of New Zealand's total energy demand (approx 12,000 GWh) exclusively from ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, WorldChanging,  26 Mar 2008

Open 28 Hours

Under the 28 Hour Day system, the current week would remain at exactly 168 hours. (24x7=168) However, this 168 hour period would be divided into six 28-hour days rather than 7 24-hour days. http://www.dbeat.com/28/ The Long Now Foundation uses five ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, WorldChanging,  10 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Benjamin Franklin,  Harvard University

Heat pumps: The Future has Hot Showers.

Alex recently posted a charming video snippet that he described as "solutions porn" - the video shows a man in a dusty, un-named country installing a photovoltaic panel on his roof and enjoying a lengthy hot shower when the evening sets in. His family ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, WorldChanging,  19 Feb 2008

What are We Going to Do with all this Coal?

Auckland Anniversary Day was also the two year anniversary of the longest environmental protest occupation in New Zealand: the Save Happy Valley Coalition exist to prevent state-owned Solid Energy from digging an open-cast coal mine near Westport in ...

From CRAIG NEILSON, WorldChanging,  11 Feb 2008

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