Climate Positive
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Linfox climate change leadership – cutting its emissions by 50% by 2015
I caught up again today with David McInnes, Group Manager Environment for Linfox - you can find the interview here. Linfox have cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 28% per km since 2006/07. They ...
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Energy Saving Measures in Government Buildings gone too far?
A British government office has taken a radical step to reduce energy usage by installing timing switches in their toilets. In itself there is nothing unusual about this but staff in the West Midland reported that they have been often ...
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World’s most energy efficient office building?
The Elithis Tower in Dijon, France, consumes just 20 kWh/m2 and was designed to cost no more than a conventional office buildings. The February issue of Ecolibirum, the magazine of AIRAH (Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating) reported ...
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How self-limiting beliefs are wasting money and energy
Last year VECCI - the Victorian Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry – undertook a survey of business attitudes to climate change. A surprising – and very disappointing result – was that many businesses believed they had done all they could ...
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What’s happened at Copenhagen?
There was a tremendous build up to this international climate conference. There was lots of anticipation by the public. It was declared to be the ...
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“Dry” evaporative cooler saves energy and eliminates the need for refrigerant based cooling
At the recent All Energy expo in Melbourne (early October) I came across the Coolerado cooler, distributed in Australia by Clear Solar. This is an ingenious, simple air cooler based on a combination of evaporative cooling and plate heat exchangers ...
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Don’t Lose Interest in Climate Change but take part in International Day of Climate Action
According to dire news reported in the media last week Australians are losing interest in Global Warming. While in 2007 this issue ...
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What will make zero net energy office buildings affordable by 2020?
A zero net energy office building is one which consumes no net energy. Its an office that uses very little energy, then has some form of renewable energy to generate all the power it requires. With current off the shelf solar technology, ...
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Painting your roof white better than a PV system in slowing global warming
Lawrence Berkerley National lab reported November last year on some fantastic research into how "cool roofs" can help slow global warming. White surfaces reflect rather than absorb radiation, and can be effective in re-radiating ...
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You have SPAM with a huge carbon footprint
You may have come across this news item a couple of months ago but it is worth taking another look. Although, the study was conducted by a major spam-ware corporation, it is clear that junk e-mails have a ...