RSS
Email
Invite to Carbonflow booth @ Carbon Expo
Written by Karla Bell on Sunday, 24 May 2009
Carbonflow is the first web-based multi-party carbon record system, will participate at Carbon Expo in Barcelona. Designed from the ground up to manage carbon projects, including CDM/JI and the voluntary market, Carbonflow works in rapidly changing multi-party project environments.
Carbonflow drastically lowers the cost and time it takes to create carbon credits. It improves the velocity and transparency of this growing market, while enabling the expansion of the carbon credit supply.
> Read more …
Editor and Main Author: Karla Bell
Pragmatic Environmentalist and Entrepreneur
A long time pragmatic environmentalist, Karla is probably best known as the driving force behind developing the Green aspect of the Olympics starting with the first Green Olympic Games in Sydney, while working for Greenpeace in the Atmosphere and Energy campaign. She has since been an advisor to both the public and private sector on green infrastructure and emissions trading, and has been a proponent of the need to bring transparency and automation to help scale emissions trading markets.
> Read more …Meet our Contributing Writers
> Read about them here …Waxman-Markey Draft Bill Amendments on Climate Change Bill
Written by Karla Bell on Thursday, 14 May 2009
This announcement by Steven. T.Dennis, seems to indicate that, “Waxman has agreed to give utilities free initial allocations on nearly all of their greenhouse gas emissions. Boucher had sought to give utilities the credits to avoid rate hikes for consumers”. They have still not addressed the issue in the long-term of how to not incur [...]
> Read more …Solutions to the Draft Waxman Bill expose design flaw in U.S. ETS
Written by Karla Bell on Thursday, 7 May 2009
The Waxman and Markey Climate Change bill has to be finalized by 25th of May on Memorial day 2009. The House is considering climate change legislation authored by a key subcommittee chairman, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA). President Obama has said this is, “a rare opportunity to rise above parochial concerns to enact a bill [...]
> Read more …Support for Green Building Carbon Credits - BOMA, U.S Green Building Council
Written by Donald Simon on Tuesday, 28 April 2009
A Structure for Promoting Greater Efficiency in the Real Estate Sector to Address Climate Change The research, analysis and preparation of this white paper was partially funded by the joint efforts of BOMA International, The Real Estate Roundtable, U.S. Green Building Council and the California Business Properties Association. Reproduced in full - Donald Simon is [...]
> Read more …Principles Post 2012 Climate Change Agreement include BRIC nations
Written by Karla Bell on Sunday, 26 April 2009
At a recent conference called, “Navigating the American Carbon World Conference and Trade Fair” sponsored by Point Carbon and IETA, PG & E, April 1-3 2009. San Diego, California, there was a consistent general tone to the presentations on the importance of doing something about Climate Change, how little time we have to do it [...]
> Read more …Energy Efficiency initiatives in Australian Emissions Trading Scheme
Written by Simon Dawes on Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Some thoughts on domestic energy efficiency initiatives.
There has been considerable furore in the Australian papers recently as a case is being made that the Government claims that domestic energy efficiency will not reduce Australia’s emissions - this is simply wrong. The claim is that any domestic energy efficiency outcome will immediately result in a corresponding [...]
Campaign Diary
Campaign Diary - Energy Efficiency & Agricultural offsets in U.S. Cap and Trade
Campaign Diary for Energy Efficiency and Agricultural Offsets to be in included in the U.S. Cap and Trade and revised Kyoto Protocol December 2009. This is a campaign progress report.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
April 24th - Monday April 27th, the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco is hosting a panel discussion on cap & trade and other market mechanisms. Panelists include Josh Margolis, CEO of Cantor CO2e and Eileen Tutt, Deputy Secretary for Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Cal EPA. Tickets are $18. Program begins at 6:30pm at 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor. Reception to follow at 7:30pm. http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1
March 13th, Sydney - Listen to Bill Joy, a longtime KP Limited Partner, joined KPCB as Partner in January 2005. He is advocating that the skills of Silicon Valley be put at the disposal of Carbon Valley. Bill helps entrepreneurs advance the Internet, develop wireless innovations, and find new ways of using large scale computing to solve the most difficult problems. He also looks to help entrepreneurs who have discoveries and inventions that can solve energy and resource problems, and helps them apply 21st century advances in physics, chemistry and the natural sciences to help create abundance. Bill Joy was Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. He has been called the “Edison of the Internet.”
March 9th - Great interview on Charlie Rose with Stevan Chu “A conversation with Steven Chu, United States Secretary of Energy”. He is talking about green buildings, weatherization packages, energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Feb 24th - Carbonflow policy document is attached. Energy Efficiency in the U.S Cap and Trade and revised Kyoto Protocol
> Read more …Clean Living
A special section on daily living by Karla Bell
What to eat - Local food for less food miles, organic and less meat
British Academic, Tim Lang, on World Food Day, adviser to the UK Government on food security and tackling obesity, said one of the key ways Britain can help tackle Climate Change is through food policy. Lang, says, “not only should we buy local produce, but “we must cut down on eating animals and dairy foodstuffs to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced in rearing livestock”.
The popular wisdom on food and agricultural contributions to Climate Change has been espoused in terms of Food Miles, a phrase coined by Professor Lang. He has added two other parts to the ‘buy local’ movement solution to agricultural emissions that is buying organic to reduce pesticides and chemicals for human health reasons and to consume less meat as the conventional view is that herbivores produce large quantities of methane emissions contributing to Climate Change. See main ghgblog.com for a contrary view by Dr Allen Savoury.
> Read more …