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Martin Nicholson Zero Carbon Australia plan – more expensive than you think

The renewable energy advocates (and the Greens apparently) must be very pleased. The University of Melbourne in conjunction with Beyond Zero Emission (BZE) have solved all the problems with getting
renewable energy to run our entire electricity network.


Their recent report called Zero Carbon

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Added by Martin Nicholson on September 1, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Change2 ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - I is for International Energy Agency (IEA)

Many coal-fired power stations all over the world currently operate at efficiencies well below 30%. 'This is a significant waste of energy and an unnecessary cause of climate-damaging CO2 emissions. Given that the share of coal in power generation is rising, this is alarming', Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the Internation… Continue

Added by Change2 on August 30, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Lee Stewart ACT set ambitious emissions targets. A great program or destined to fail?

This morning the ACT is set to announce a very ambitious target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2020. The announcement has left some wondering whether this is realistic as the territory recently downgraded its NoWaste 2010 target to just an inspirational goal.
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Added by Lee Stewart on August 27, 2010 at 10:14am — 3 Comments

Terence Jeyaretnam Zero 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

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Added by Terence Jeyaretnam on August 23, 2010 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Change2 ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - H is for Hydro-Power

In Australia, the biggest and best example of hydro-electric power generation is undoubtedly the 'Snowy'. The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme is one of the most complex integrated water and hydro-electric power schemes in the world. It collects an stores the water that would normally flow east to the coast and diverts it… Continue

Added by Change2 on August 23, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Change2 ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - G is for Green Jobs

Human resources managers know it. New graduates know it - opportunities abound in the new green economy. It appears that all kinds of engineers, scientists and architects are taking jobs with companies at at the forefront of the energy and emissions business. With oil prices near record highs and more companies concerned about… Continue

Added by Change2 on August 16, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Change2 ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - F is for Fossil Fuels

Where do fossil fuels come from? Peter Doherty has the answer in A light history of hot air: 'Most of the enormous energy store originated in the small ocean organisms and the trees and ferns of the cretaceous period that occurred something like 360 million years ago'. These ancient sea… Continue

Added by Change2 on August 9, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Change2 ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - E is for Emissions Trading

A scheme that allows companies to either reduce emissions of greenhouse gases or pay for the right to pollute (with money paid being used to reduce emissions elsewhere, including investments in tree planting or renewable energy). Many private emissions or carbon trading schemes operate voluntarily in Australia (see… Continue

Added by Change2 on August 2, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Lee Stewart Change2 Presentation for CitySwitch - Innovation and Cool Ways you can Reduce IT and Office Footprint

I had the pleasure of presenting to the Sydney CitySwitch signatories on one of my favourite topics "Innovation in ICT and ideas on how to reduce your footprint."

Having been to a number of presentations around the topic of sustainability I thought I would do something a little bit different rather than show the usual graphs and let people know about some of the "Cool Innovations" happening around the IT sector and energy effic… Continue

Added by Lee Stewart on July 29, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Change2 ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - D is for Data Centres

It has long been suspected that the IT (Information Technology) industry has been a major contributor of CO2 emissions. Gartner - a company that acts as an analyst and adviser to the industry - announced in April 2007 that the IT industry produces 2% of the global CO2 emissions, placing it on par with the aviation industry. Now… Continue

Added by Change2 on July 26, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Lee Stewart Citizens Assembly? More Consultation On Climate Change? Didn't we do that years ago?

Being an optimist I thought that maybe Julia Gillard might be a bit different and act on Climate Change and that the upcoming election we would see a credible climate change policy from a major party.

So the news coming out today on Julia's… Continue

Added by Lee Stewart on July 23, 2010 at 12:30pm — 6 Comments

Change2 ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - C is for Carbon Neutral

When its carbon emissions are effectively reduced to zero through a combinationn of decreasing energy consumption, using renewable energy and purchasing carbon credits to offset the remainder, a business or induistry is said to be carbon neutral. To achieve this, they must manage to control their direct emissions and of… Continue

Added by Change2 on July 19, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Lee Stewart The Gap Story and the One Report that Changed Everything

Last week I was invited to be a part of an Executive Round Table discussion on Ethical Supply Chains. The event was kindly hosted by the United States Studies Centre and the NSW Department of State and Regional Development.
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Added by Lee Stewart on July 14, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Change2 2010 City of Sydney Business Awards

Vote for Change2

Change2 has recently been nominated for the 2010 City of Sydney Business Awards in the category Environmental Business.

This is great news, but we need your help!

Register your Vote for Change2 and go in the… Continue

Added by Change2 on July 14, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Change2 ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - B is for Biomass

India is attempting to move away from fossil fuels to make maximum use of its available biomass for energy generation. It is also drawing on international investment to finance its projects through the clean development mechanism (CDM). The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) announced on 2 November 2007 the allocation of… Continue

Added by Change2 on July 12, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

3BL Media Leonardo Academy Presents a Free Webinar on How to Be a Hero and Deliver Great Post-Occupancy Performance in LEED-NC Certified Buildings

(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) Madison, WI - July 6, 2010 - Leonardo Academy announced today that it will present a free webinar training course on maintaining high performance in LEED-NC certified buildings on July 15, 2010, titled: 1-2-3 LEED-NC Certification: How to Be a Hero & Deliver Great Post-Occupancy Performance. This course provides step-by-step guidance on how the LEED-EB rating system can be used to achieve and maintain high ongoing performance for buildings certified

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Added by 3BL Media on July 10, 2010 at 8:14am — No Comments

Nick Potter The Buzz Beyond Sustainability

It’s official: I’ve ended my relationship with sustainability. We still see each other occasionally but the magic is missing. I’ve moved on to other words. We actually cut loose a long time ago. So it’s sayonara sustainability. It was great while it lasted.

Breaking up with sustainability wasn’t easy. We had a long-term relationship. We also keep bumping in… Continue

Added by Nick Potter on July 9, 2010 at 11:30pm — 3 Comments

Change2 ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - A is for Awareness

With the help and support of fellow Change2 member and author Ken Hickson we are publishing on a weekly basis little snippets from his book the… Continue

Added by Change2 on July 1, 2010 at 5:16pm — No Comments

Terence Jeyaretnam In 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… Continue

Added by Terence Jeyaretnam on June 28, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

L John Carson Seeking To Understand The Nature of Change. Is it Checkers ... or ... Is It Chess?

Is it Checkers or is it Chess? The very notion of change has interested me all of my life: its driving force, its meaning and its resistant forces all speak to us all of a much larger arena, but mostly of the latter. Once we truly understand the nature of "the momentum of the mind's stagnation" ... we may just have a chance at evolutionary change. When change moves beyond potential … creation of the new and possibly the earmarks of evolution are its effects. When pain or boredom sets in, chang… Continue

Added by L John Carson on June 15, 2010 at 1:47am — No Comments

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