Nick Young

This is not a drill! The directors of 20 major NZ greenhouse gas emitters have been warned of possible litigation if they don’t take action on climate change.
More on the Greenpeace website

It seems that Solid has reduced production for the year by 250,000 tonnes, in part because of the protests by The Save Happy Valley group.
And so the protest group is now selling “carbon credits” as a fund raiser.
This is great news for the climate! Solid Energy can’t catch up that lost 250,000 tonnes of [...]

Man we’ve been banging on about this for a long time.
This excerpt is from an educational documentary called the “Unchained Goddess” produced aroudn 50 years ago by Frank Capra for Bell Labs for their television program “The Bell Telephone Hour.”

You can’t get this little gadget yet but it looks promising …
UK mobile phone operator Orange will demonstrate a wind-powered mobile phone charger next week, as part of its sponsorship of the Glastonbury festival. The prototype weighing in at just 150g and can be mounted on a tent.
Orange demonstrates a wind turbine charger

Here’s an interesting homegrown site embracing the collaborative web2.0 approach - The Health Connection www.healthconnection.co.nz is a niche directory aimed at the health sector and at first glance it’s just another directory but if you look closer there are some neat features.
It’s hard to define just what web2.0 actually is but I think it’s about [...]

Also filed in the scares-the-shit-out-of-me category is a story from the NZ Herald this morning titled: Earth could flip into environmental disaster
The Earth is in imminent peril and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change, six leading scientists say.
Writing in the Philosophical Transactions [...]

The UK Government is releasing an ‘official website’ to tell Britons how much much carbon dioxide they are each producing and how to cut it.
In NZ we can also calculate our carbon footprints with the following:
http://www.contactenergy.co.nz
http://www.carbonzero.co.nz
There was one at MFE but it’s offline undergoing a refit.
Anyone know of any other NZ based calculators?

Times they are a changing. Just found this over at Celsias…
General Motors is determined to “remove the car from the environment and energy debate” in the next 10 years by doing away with the internal combustion engine altogether. - Autocar
interesting discussion in the comments about whether electric cars are the solution when our electricity is [...]

Arguments against travelling overseas or buying foreign food because of the carbon footprint are “idiotic” and not the way to tackle climate change, Helen Clark has said.
So says our leader. Is she serious?
Curbing travel to cut carbon ‘idiotic’ - Clark - 15 Jun 2007 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news

Yesterday organisers of the Go-Expo conference, and hundreds of Alberta oil and gas executives, got duped bad.
Attendees paid 50 dollars a head to hear a speech from the National Petroleum Council, a group that also advises the White House on oil and gas matters. It was rumoured that a new joint energy policy from the [...]