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Zero Carbon Plan for Australia
Posted on August 23, 2010 at 12:00pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
Did you know that enough sunlight falls on the earth’s surface every hour to meet world energy demand for an entire year? That the average amount of solar energy that falls on Australia is about 15,000 times the nation’s energy use? Then there’s wind, geothermal, wave and hydro to draw on, in vast renewable quantities. Coal is cheap, but that’s…
Continue In search of the elusive Green Shopper
Posted on June 28, 2010 at 5:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
There are two types of people in the world - those who divide people into groups and those who don’t. In marketing, the practice of customer segmentation is important. It helps make sense of the complexity in the way decisions are made, especially in purchasing. Often, dividing people into four or five groups makes problems seem more manageable. I personally like the five point scale that TerraChoice has come up with, ranging from (RAW NUTZ) Righteous And Willing Nature Unspoiling… Continue A Low Carbon Growth Plan for Australia
Posted on March 22, 2010 at 2:30pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
There’s been a campaign of mind washing Australians, by those most to gain, to believe that a response to global warming through carbon mitigation will be at a significant cost to society that will result in job losses and a lower quality of life. This has virtually made the policy proposition for an emissions trading scheme a back-leaning ladder to climb. What’s more, this has turned the pinhole into a doorway for climate change deniers and skeptics to march…
Continue Reframing Business for the 21st Century
Posted on February 23, 2010 at 9:20am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The evidence is finally in. Business transactions do result in significant externalised environmental impact, which, if monetised, would result in a third of all profits from the world’s largest companies being eroded away. A recent report by Trucost to the United Nations has made this finding after modeling the environmental impact of the world’s largest 3,000 companies.
The report comes amid growing concern that businesses are merely paying… Continue
Sustainability of the Commons
Posted on January 20, 2010 at 10:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
With the black clouds of the GFC looming upon us at the start of 2009, we were cornered to ask some big questions. So what of business sustainability? Is it still important?Would businesses still seek to be green, or would the sustainability budget be one of the first to be cut? But, we were optimistic. In 2008 we noted that ‘Our feeling is that there will be some natural attrition of sustainability ‘excess’. However, for the large part, there will be retention of… Continue
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Lee Stewart commented on Terence Jeyaretnam's blog post Zero Carbon Plan for Australia"It's increasingly frustrating to read these reports. The technology is there what we lack is the will to make it happen!"
Terence Jeyaretnam's blog post was featuredZero Carbon Plan for Australia
Did you know that enough sunlight falls on the earth’s surface every hour to meet world energy demand for an entire year? That the average amount of solar energy that falls on Australia is about 15,000 times the nation’s energy use? Then there’s wind, geothermal, wave and hydro to draw on, in vast renewable quantities. Coal is cheap, but that’s because the real price of carbon has not been taken into account. These renewable sources, which are in abundance, are, at first, more expensive to draw…See More
Terence Jeyaretnam posted a blog postZero Carbon Plan for Australia
Did you know that enough sunlight falls on the earth’s surface every hour to meet world energy demand for an entire year? That the average amount of solar energy that falls on Australia is about 15,000 times the nation’s energy use? Then there’s wind, geothermal, wave and hydro to draw on, in vast renewable quantities. Coal is cheap, but that’s because the real price of carbon has not been taken into account. These renewable sources, which are in abundance, are, at first, more expensive to draw…See More
Terence Jeyaretnam's blog post was featuredIn search of the elusive Green Shopper
There are two types of people in the world - those who divide people into groups and those who don’t. In marketing, the practice of customer segmentation is important. It helps make sense of the complexity in the way decisions are made, especially in purchasing. Often, dividing people into four or five groups makes problems seem more manageable. I personally like the five point scale that TerraChoice has come up with, ranging from (RAW NUTZ) Righteous And Willing Nature Unspoiling Total Zealots…See More
Terence Jeyaretnam posted a blog postIn search of the elusive Green Shopper
There are two types of people in the world - those who divide people into groups and those who don’t. In marketing, the practice of customer segmentation is important. It helps make sense of the complexity in the way decisions are made, especially in purchasing. Often, dividing people into four or five groups makes problems seem more manageable. I personally like the five point scale that TerraChoice has come up with, ranging from (RAW NUTZ) Righteous And Willing Nature Unspoiling Total Zealots…See More
Leon Young commented on Terence Jeyaretnam's blog post A Low Carbon Growth Plan for Australia"Absolutely right Terrence. The fear mongers have run one of the most effective FUD campaigns in history. Unfortunately, the lack of a public education campaign, or even a unified response to those special interest groups created a vacuum which has…"
Terence Jeyaretnam's blog post was featuredA Low Carbon Growth Plan for Australia
There’s been a campaign of mind washing Australians, by those most to gain, to believe that a response to global warming through carbon mitigation will be at a significant cost to society that will result in job losses and a lower quality of life. This has virtually made the policy proposition for an emissions trading scheme a back-leaning ladder to climb. What’s more, this has turned the pinhole into a doorway for climate change deniers and skeptics to march into.However, as shown by respected…See More
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Yes, completely understand where you're coming from. I personnaly don't have anything against the bigeer polluters (so to speak) - otherwise I woudn't have toasted my bread in the morning, been on the trams, or have this computer to blog with!
Hope life's treating you well mate, Terence.
My aim in making the remark was to at least register my disappointment that all large users of energy are demonized. This rhetoric continues to be promulgated and in doing so, picks up a head of steam ie: large users of energy, are big polluters, big polluters should be stopped, stop users of energy-no matter what,etc, etc. These same big users of energy are also 'saving' energy, buy using a feedstock with a 75% saving on the energy required to make that product from virgin ores. This is not even valuing the recycling 'service' provided ie: conserving resources, preserving landfill space, reducing water use, etc.
They're also large recyclers of secondary product, which displace more carbon-intensive substitutes which are only too freely going to destroy the local steel industry, when Govt has no intentions of limiting imports.