Climate Positive
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Forget the CPRS – its up to you
This blog aims to show how acting vigorously to reduce carbon emissions is good for the environment and good for business. That it is possible to create a "win-win" with the right approach. The Emissions Trading Scheme - officially known ...
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Overnight energy audit saves $50,000
We assume so much in life, both personally and at work. Our assumptions and reality aren’t always the same. An occasional “reality check” can be very valuable. I wonder what expensive assumptions our organisations might harbour?
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Sunlight in a Cable
We are all familiar with the concept of the traditional skylight or solar tube that directs sunshine through a duct or a flexible tube from the roof to a ceiling. This is an easy way to get natural daylight into ...
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Local climate extremes demand concerted positive action
Black Saturday 7 February 2009: Melbourne’s temperature reached 46.4 degrees (116.5 deg F), fanned by strong hot winds 400 bushfires across the state killed over 170 people and destroyed 700 homes. And the dams supplying the state with water are ...
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Is Plasma Light a serious competitor to LED light?
Controlled Plasma (CP) lighting technology is the latest of a number of emerging innovative lighting technologies that inadvertently help reduce GHG emission through energy efficiency. In fact its Melbourne inventor Graeme Huon (formerly and acoustics engineer) asserted that ...
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Reflect on Fluoros
WME The Environmet Business Magazine had this article "Reflect on Fluoros" in their Dec 2008 issue. The article started bt stating that "While the EPOCH's promise of spending nothing to get better power at a lower cost provides a very ...
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Chinese mass produced hybrid car with 100km electric range now available
Chinese drivers can now buy a hybrid vehicle, with an electric-only range of 100kms. The BYD auto F3-DM vehicle retails for around $22,000 USD. More details here and at the BYD site. Toyota, who I recently commented on, have ...
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Two popular assumptions that prevent cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate scientists are clear when they say that large cuts in human caused greenhouse gas emissions are needed to slow climate change. But there are two popular assumptions in Australia, probably replicated in other countries, that are preventing these large ...
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One of the most dangerous newspaper headlines you’ll ever see – “Climate change is a lose-lose affair”
This blog exists because of my belief that a vigorous response to the climate change challenge provides a win-win situation, not a lose – lose. Yet Fairfax Digital’s Independent Weekly has just come out with this headline “Climate ...
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Become A certified mirrorlux Installer or Sales Agent
Carbonetix has developed a website to assist its certified Mirrorlux installers and distributors with sales, marketing and installation activities. Mirorrlux provides an opportunity for Electrical Contracting and Facility Management businesses to build additional business by offering Delamping Services which can ...