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ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - M is for Methane

It may have become fashionable to target four-wheel drives as gas guzzlers and heavy emitters, but they are probably less damaging to the environment than the cows and sheep that are essential to the rural economy. Methane emissions from both ends of cattle and sheep are causing great concern, according to Times Online in July 2007. The UK government has asked researchers to find ways to cut down on methane (a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful at driving global warming than carbon… Continue

Added by Change2 on September 27, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

The Shweeb the Future of Eco Transport?

Every now and then something truly unique and innovative comes along. I am happy to say that this one is from my home country New Zealand and is a pedal-powered monorail called "The Shweeb".



This is the first human powered monrail and passengers pedal what is best described as a bicycle in an aerodynamic capsule. You can get speeds up to 70kph and you don't have the usual problem… Continue

Added by Lee Stewart on September 26, 2010 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

Get fit, get a free pedometer AND help WaterAid and Walk4Water?

Just a quick shout-out to all you change-makers!



WaterAid is a really amazing charity that provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene to people, and especially children throughout the world.



They are especially active in Timor-Leste and have done amazing work to alleviate some of the suffering in Pakistan.



This October they are launching the Walk4Water campaign to help raise some money so they can continue to do their work.



For the month of October, you… Continue

Added by Jess Miller on September 20, 2010 at 3:17pm — No Comments

ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - K is for Kyoto Protocol

An international agreement made in 1997 (in the Japanese city of Kyoto), the Kyoto Protocol, sets emission reduction targets for developed countries and establishes mechanism to reduce the emissions of developing countries. The Kyoto Protocol is an addendum to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It took one year for the member countries of the UNFCCC to decide that the Convention had to be augmented by an agreement with stricter demands for reducing greenhouse gas… Continue

Added by Change2 on September 13, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Describing a Regenerative Economy

I'm looking for ways to describe a regenerative economy. What's it going to look like to live in a world where business is good for the environment - consuming greenhouse gases, increasing natural habitat. What else will be different? How do we turn the sustainability conversation from "I don't want more GHG produced" into the reverse image? What is the reverse image anyway?

These are the things that occur to me:

  • New buildings will generate their own power, store…
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Added by Leigh Baker on September 10, 2010 at 3:36pm — No Comments

Federal Election Result

Has anyone done research to establish what the Federal election result means for development of renewable energy sources in Australia?

Jeff

Added by Jeff Egan on September 7, 2010 at 11:29pm — No Comments

A new kind of optimism?

I'm sure most of our visitors here at Change2 came out of the 2007 Federal election with a sense of optimism. Kevin Rudd was going to put a price on carbon, get indigenous reconciliation back on the agenda and take a moral and compassionate stance on asylum seekers. We were also going to see a visionary piece of national infrastructure built; the National Broadband Network.


I'm also sure most of you shared my sense of disappointment at the way the climate debate…
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Added by Leon Young on September 7, 2010 at 5:40pm — 1 Comment

ABC of Carbon Weekly Blog - J is for JENI

The JPMorgan Environmental Index - JENI (or JENI Carbon Beta in full) - is the first high-grade corporate bond index designed to address the risks of climate change in a rigorous way. A collaboration between JPMorgan and Innovest Strategic Investment Advisors, a world leader in providing environmental analysis to institutional investors, JENI-Carbon Beta is designed to enable credit investors to make return- driven investment decisions that systematically take the risks and… Continue

Added by Change2 on September 6, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

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…

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

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