EDF rewards customers for using less fuel
EDF are providing bonus schemes to customers if they provide easier access to their data (fuel consumption), and then additional bonuses if they reduce consumption. […]
EDF are providing bonus schemes to customers if they provide easier access to their data (fuel consumption), and then additional bonuses if they reduce consumption. […]
“latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.” [BBC] This is following the trends of most of […]
I’m obviously very, very happy about this. When we first began our AMEE journey, we thought it would be perfect if we could get buy […]
Just an idea… Web 0.0 — the zero-emission Internet? The zero-energy web. The zero-emission Internet. The zero-net. The net-zero web. “I go all the way […]
Further to my last summary on the lowest ever sea ice measurement, things are not getting any better; (source: http://nsidc.org/) “Compared to conditions cited in […]
This year is the 50th anniversary of Jodrell Bank. Today is also a landmark day for Jodrell Bank – the whole science team are moving […]
On 17th Aug 2007, Arctic sea ice surpassed the previous single-day (absolute minimum) record for the lowest extent ever measured by satellite. NSIDC is now […]
I’ve now had a chance to download, try and then, unfortunately un-install the BBC iPlayer. There’s already a lot of commentary about the use of […]
Kind of what you’d expect from the Media, but it’s still saddening to see. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2195538.ece .. it’s like much of the climate change backlash and […]
As we near the launch there are some great pieces starting to hit the wire… Currybet start with this great set of predictions, of which […]
More congrat’s to MySociety on their continuous setting of the bar on social engagement – this is the 3rd year they’ve won the Civic Society […]
I sold my streaming media company, Tornado, to Servecast in 2003 in a cash deal. At the time Tornado had doubled its revenues year-on-year since […]
Courtesy of The Economist (click for hi-res). The USA is the number one for petrol consumption at just under 1.4 billion liters a day.
Live Earth is live. I’m wondering what it’d be like if it’d been held by Global Cool instead of Al Gore… my weekend would certainly […]
Excerpt from Rolling Stone “… To direct the White House’s spin on global warming, Connaughton appointed Philip Cooney as his top deputy. Cooney had the […]
Great news – Google commits to go Carbon Neutral by 2008 – a very aggressive timeframe indeed. “This is just a start,” Eric Schmidt, chairman […]
Hopefully the last cross-post between the AMEE blog and this one… it’s launching this week. AMEE Press Area
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This is great, another “hat’s off” to the Climate Group, and the Greater London Authority. DIY Planet Repairs is a public information campaign calling on […]
This is a great set of visualisations – would be great to see the originals (which are 10 foot wide) http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7 For example, “Depicts 11,000 […]
As reported by the Washington Post “President Bush has consistently called for the development of advanced technology to help meet the country’s energy needs and […]
From the BBC “… according to Dr Copland, the fact that such thick ice could split apart in less than an hour – as it […]
We just launched Amee – a framework for collaborative campaigning on Climate Change. It’s an API on CO2 data and calculations, and for CO2 Footprint […]
” The company’s goals are to reduce its operations’ carbon emissions significantly and to engage its 47,000 employees and its millions of readers, viewers and […]
If you’d like to get involved, have a look ℵhere.
This is very important news http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2007/070423a.htm “A major new campaign that aims to help individuals cut their personal CO2 emissions has today been backed by […]
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Apple still at the bottom. Nokia still high. When you look at the production volumes of these products (in the 100 millions), a 1 gramme […]
at. last. http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/12160 http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html Of course, all CI’s clients already sell non-DRM’d music…
The new UK policy regarding profiling the energy efficiency of your home as part of its sale will help reduce the UK’s co2 profile. For […]
On The Great Global Warming Swindle. “There will always be people with conspiracy theories trying to do down the scientific consensus, and that is part […]
This is a huge step forward. “The government has unveiled plans to set a “legally binding” target to cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2050.” […]
Not entirely sure what Channel Four thinks it was doing, but this helps clear it up… “the channel – is facing a serious challenge to […]
This should be a very interesting conference… “The O’Reilly Energy Innovation Conference frames the ideas, projects, and technologies that are being invented and tested right […]
So no one should have any doubts left. Really. There can be no reason to not act. I’m only linking to the Guardian story, but […]
From BBC “Climatic changes seen around the world are “very likely” to have a human cause, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will conclude. […]
Global Cool at Number 10: transcript Blair, “I think this is just a wonderful initiative that I hope will inspire people the world over. It […]
So, today is the official Global Cool launch day. Expect a fair bit of coverage tomorrow in the UK and USA. Here’s some coverage that’s […]
We’ve launched v0.3 of the site, with an all-new carbon calculator with more valid and traceable calculations and tied into both your user profile, and […]
Some interesting pieces coming out now… On the CEO, Julian Knight, in the Telegraph. On some of the media relationships… Satellite Party: Aspen Times Hollywood […]
Hello from San Francisco, meanwhile, in The Guardian… “The really chilling thing about the IPCC report is that it is the work of several thousand […]
The Doomsday clock has been moved forward 2 minutes, to 5 to 12, one of the reasons cited being climate change… “The Bulletin of the […]
Very exciting times – quotes from this BBC article ‘The UK government is to define criteria for carbon offsetting schemes to bring “greater clarity” to […]
After months/years of R&D, some questions to be addressed and actioned over the next few weeks. Assume; 1) We are past the tipping point of […]
Amazing it took so long really. I did some photography work with them in the late 90s in return for kit and free software/keys/etc. We […]
Announced late last year, but I only just noticed, “An international research team led by Prof. Michael Kramer of the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank […]
Thanks to Tom for reminding me that I’d forgotten to comment on BBC Director-General, Mark Thomson’s, Royal Television Society Baird lecture “BBC 2.0: why on […]
One prominent fund manager, said: “Trying to distort the price of carbon credits shows sheer cheek, but they’ll have to get billions in donations to […]
Congratulations to the MySociety team for their work and multiple-recognition in the Guardian’s Top 100 Most Useful websites. It’s incredible what such a small, dedicated […]
Not to be confused with 1980s UK TV show “The Tube“, or the London Underground, we just launched http://www.global-cool.com/cooltube With lots more content to come.
Quite heavy reading, but very, very good; “The Global Carbon Cycle” (Amazon link) has a great selection of research papers covering most areas from anthropogenic […]
So, we just launched the next iteration of Global Cool – a combination of a more funky redesign, the launch of donation system, and most […]
Following my presentation at Eurofoo on 19th Sept 2006, things have been moving along in “interesting ways”. It’s always frustrating not having enough time and […]
Having watched this unfold since the beginning I’ve been trying to not post anything until YouTube announced who the buyer was. Now we know it’s […]
those chaps at MySociety have just gone and done it again… http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ brilliant stuff.
Amazing turnaround from my old employer (I was part of the Virgin Net startup team) …. Today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5368194.stm Last year (almost to the day): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4255156.stm […]
I’ll explain more soon, but just wanted to capture the phrase I’m now using to describe what I think we are building.
wow. we did it. we built and launched it on time. to the minute, as they walked off stage… It finally (soft/beta) launched with a […]
We had a power outage in our area today, taking out our office… (following on from yesterday’s outage in Marylebone that took out Level3 in […]
An amazing spot of blue in a hot dry landscape – Qatar.
finally got around to watching the insane, dangerously irresponsible video that is “they call it polution we call it life” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGKvDNdJNA the mind boggles (and […]
Random conversations are great. I’ve been looking at mappings between cosmology and ‘other things’ for several years now. Recent conversations keep orbiting links between psychology, […]
Interesting event today at http://www.interdependenceday.co.uk/ the Royal Geographic Society. The only thing missing from the site (and the RGS site!) is the address … so […]
http://www.losowsky.com/archives/009837.html getting closer to Human Tamagochi, but still not quite there….
Via Mark and his remarkable team at Internews Following an assessment mission from Jakarta, Internews is making a public appeal for donations of radio sets […]
“a gathering of video makers, programmers and web producers developing online video distribution as a tool for social justice and media democracy.” it said. it […]
The exequo.org powered SoundJunction just won the “Music” award in the NMA awards I seem to have a knack for turning up/helping some of the […]
In the guardian again, this time with my exequo hat on. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1766532,00.html Again, it’s not a “bad thing” but an evolution of a licensing framework […]
Another step function today on the web… http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax “This experimental catalogue database holds over 900,000 entries” … from the 1920s onwards. This is one of […]
BBC Creative Future… (link) “The second wave of digital will be far more disruptive than the first and the foundations of traditional media will be […]