Our message: act!

Our message: act!

Our message to government and businesses is clear. Act now, says Richard Branson. He’s featured in the forward to the UK’s Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security The credit crunch in 2008 stressed government and businesses to the extreme....

Green Customers Up

In just one year, the number of Australians considering climate change when they buy doubled. Nearly half (47 percent) of people surveyed in the Ipsos-Eureka 2009 Climate Change report nominate purchasing decisions as a main behaviour undertaken to reduce...
A century of warming

A century of warming

2009 is Australia’s second warmest year ever since 1910. That’s the finding from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology who say that 2009 will be remembered for extreme bushfires, dust-storms, lingering rainfall deficiencies, areas of flooding and...
Picturing carbon over time

Picturing carbon over time

Having trouble with lots of carbon numbers and Copenhagen claims? A solution is the World Bank’s Data Visualizer. It does a great job in turning numbers into pictures.It’s hard to visualise greenhouse gas emissions, and more difficult still to...
More than GDP

More than GDP

Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France with his high powered Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (CMEPSP – including Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi) form the latest group to join the call for a better...