“Carbon target is a guaranteed catastrophe” This was the headline on the front page of The Guardian today. “If you leave us at 450ppm for […]

Billboard says “CBS Radio and Last.fm, both owned by CBS Corp, have teamed up for closer collaboration on their respective radio initiatives. Under the agreement, […]

Interesting coincidence of acronyms: Gross World Product vs Global Warming Potential vs Global Water Partnership

Interesting convergences: http://www.opendemocracy.net/…/global_threat_multiplier “…calls for an integrated response to climate change and the wealth-poverty divide.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/20/freeourdata.politics “A government study has finally acknowledged that making data […]

Sad news today. Clarke‘s three laws; 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he […]

This is very promising – the Library of Congress is starting to add its archives to Flickr “The real magic comes when the power of […]

I was hoping that I was being ridiculous when creating the “ultimate reality TV show format” – Human Tamagochi – in 2001… but apparently Fox […]

This is great (GB) || awesome (US); “PAD.MA is an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. The entire […]

AMEE is in the USA (California and Texas) from 2nd – 13th March. I’m presenting at 1) ETech talk (8:45am Thursday, 6th March 2008, Marina […]

CI (of which I’m a Director) has been shortlisted for the Music Week Award “Distributor of the Year”. It’s a giant shift in perception that […]

From TED Talks: Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth […]

Set course for 2008…. I’ve blanked out the specifics, but each blue box is a meeting… it’s going to be a busy year.

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]