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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Trucost
Trucost, a company founded by Simon Thomas and Andrew Jacobs provides data on the carbon footprint and environmental impact of companies. It is hoping to enable fund managers to work out the carbon footprint of the companies they invest in.
They have produced a number of reports (you need to register to access [...]
Carbon Neutral Jobs
Just a thought but if you would like to advertise ‘carbon neutral’ related jobs on the blog - please feel free to drop me an email: connect@carbonneutraltourism.co.uk
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Mass tourism and climate change could lead to destruction of world’s wonders
Martin Hickman of the The Independent reports on The Future of World Travel document which considers the potential impact which climate change could have on popular tourist destinations.
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Carbon Neutral - Behaviour Change
A question without a clearly defined answer (please feel free to email me with your thoughts connect@carbonneutraltourism.co.uk).
How does the behaviour of an individual change in respect of reducing their carbon footprint? I think it’s an evolving process.
1.0 The individual starts to become aware of the environmental issues
2.0Perhaps they carry out research into their own [...]
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Low Carbon Accelerator
Low Carbon Accelerator is listed on the Alternative Investment Market and invests in companies which provide low carbon products and services which deliver immediate reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.
Mark Shorrock, Chief Executive Officer, is the founder and CEO of Wind Energy Limited the United Kingdom’s largest independent developer of wind farms
Visit Low Carbon Accelerator’s website.
Carbon neutral :: Carbon Offsetting
If you are concerned about carbon offsetting programmes it may be worth reading an article published in the Financial Times earlier in the year. It’s kind of worrying if the consumer doesn’t have faith in carbon offsetting programme.
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Conkers
Conkers is an environmentally themed visitor attraction located in the National Forest has just opened a new exhibit called the E.ON Energy Experience. The interactive exhibit focuses on climate change, energy production and conservation issues.
Central to the exhibit is Energy World which is a 3ft animated globe which demonstrates the effects of climate change, such as [...]
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Environmental Audit Committee
The Environmental Audit Committee published it’s ‘The Voluntary Carbon Offset Market’ report today.
Key points from the report include:
“Carbon offsets have a role to play in cutting carbon emissions and raising awareness of climate change;
Encouraging offsets must not inhibit increased efforts to cut emissions;
Research is needed to find out if buying offsets makes people more or [...]
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More Associates
More Associates are an interesting design practice based in the UK working in the field of ’sustainable design.’ Their “current focus is on delivering carbon reduction and energy-literacy strategies across populations to produce widespread behaviour change and help transform markets toward carbon- and energy-efficiency.” It is worth visiting their website, particularly the research [...]
