SMART 100 Mavens 2010
So, who were these ‘intense gatherers of information and impressions’? Who were these people described as among ‘the first to pick up on new or nascent trends and share them’? Introducing our maven judges for 2010.
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Test driving Renaut’s 100% electric car, the Fluence (lame name, cool car)
While in Copenhagen for last year’s climate change summit, Anthill contributor Dave Sag had an opportunity to test drive the Fluence, Renaut’s 100 percent electric car. As Sag reports, the loudest thing about the Fluence is its indicator. But is it a game-changer?
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Fear and hope at Copenhagen – a Gen Y perspective
On Monday we published Dave Sag’s first post from Copenhagen. Today we received this diary entry from 26-year-old Australian Wendy Miller, who is attending the Copenhagen COP15 climate change summit as a member of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.
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All atwitter at Copenhagen
Dave Sag is in Copenhagen this week covering the COP15 climate change summit for Anthill. This is his first post in the series.
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Carbon Planet and m2m to merge
Adelaide-based carbon management company Carbon Planet, headed by regular Anthill contributor Dave Sag, is to merge with Melbourne-based telecommunications and investment company m2m Corporation Ltd.
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Carbon pollution reduction — for fun and profit
When the Department of Climate Change decided to change the name of the national Emissions Trading Scheme to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, they really hit on a winner. Yes, it’s a bit harder to say – the CPRS doesn’t roll off the tongue like the NETS. In fact, it sounds a bit like a medical procedure, but it’s a brilliant name change because now the scheme is being referred to in terms of its goals, rather than its mechanism. The new name puts all the focus on what the scheme wants to achieve. The emissions trading scheme is simply the way in which it’s going to be done.
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On bio-fuels
There has been a lot of criticism of late about bio-fuels and, like many issues, the good technologies are being tarred with the same brush as the bad. And this is a terrible shame, for there are clearly good and bad bio-fuel projects, just as there are good and bad hydro projects. The principle behind…
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What are Carbon Credits anyway?
The very best way to reduce your emission of carbon into the atmosphere is to make appropriate behavioural and structural changes so that you physically cease to emit so much carbon. Sounds obvious, hey? But the devil is in the detail.
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Carbon neutral — says who?
October/November, 2007 You’ll no doubt have read about all these businesses that have “gone carbon neutral,” and thought, ‘Gee, that’s great, I’ll go buy their products.’ Scratch the surface of these claims however and, in some cases, a different picture emerges. The first and most primary problem with claims of carbon neutrality is that there…
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Reducing your carbon footprint
Step one in reducing your office’s carbon footprint simply has to involve crushing one of the most stupid office habits – the take-away coffee. You all know the type, they “can’t even think” until they’ve had their morning flapaccino, or whatever the hell is being served in the name of coffee in their local store….
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