Archive for the 'climate change' Category
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #007 (MP3 - 12MB - 34min)
Carbon Neutrality is the key objective of many consumers and organisations seeking to nullify their impact on global emissions. For many individuals and companies an available approach is to choose to offset gross emissions by purchasing Carbon Offsets. The Growth in this market over the last [...]
Posted in Accreditation, CO2, Carbon Offsets, General, Podcast, Regulation, climate change, emissions, environment, research | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #006 (MP3 - 20MB - 56min)
The pressure to establish Emissions Trading programs in order to reduce C02 emissions is mounting in many countries and at a global level worldwide.
In this weeks show we have an in depth discussion about Emissions Trading with Rob Fowler, the Managing Director of Abatement Solutions - Asia [...]
Posted in Australian Government, C02, CDM, Carbon Price, Carbon Tax, Emissions Trading, Investment, Podcast, alternative energy, clean development mechamism, cleantech, climate change, emissions, environment, greenhouse gas, investors, sustainability | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #005 (MP3 - 13MB - 36min)
On this weeks show our guest is Gary Bertuch, the Managing Director of HySSIL Pty Ltd, a company commercialising a revolutionary new lightweight concrete technology involving the CSIRO.
Hyssil’s technology allows the production of lightweight concrete panels that have and unique combination of lower weight, higher strength, lower [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
If your living in Australia, you would have found it hard not to know that the Prime Ministers National Emissions Trading Taskforce Report is out. For those of you elsewhere in the world, a quick google will bring you up to speed, or you can have a read of this story on news.com.au.
Without going into [...]
Posted in Australia, Australian Government, Carbon Price, Carbon Tax, Emissions Trading, Greenhouse, Report, World, alternative energy, cleantech, climate change, environment | No Comments »
Friday, June 1st, 2007
A new Cleantech report has just been released predicting that spending on the development of new energy and environmental technologies - Cleantech - is projected to grow by 14% in 2007 to exceed $55 billion worldwide. With corporate and government spending [...]
Posted in Asia, General, Global, Investment, Spending, World, alternative energy, cleantech, climate change, environment, sustainability, technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #004 (MP3 - 13MB - 36min)
Sylvia Tulloch, is the Managing director and founding team member for 3rd Generation solar cell technology company Dyesol (ASX:DYE).
3rd generation solar cell technology utilises biomimicry of the chlorophyll dye in plants to produce energy from the sun.
Dyesol has been a pioneer in the field of Dye [...]
Posted in Podcast, cleantech, climate change, sustainability | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Water Availability and Desalination is a hot topic at the moment here in Australia, as in many other areas of the world. Developed countries like Australia are gripped in drought and faced with shifting climate conditions that mean that water availability is becoming more and more pressured.
Around the world in developing countries 1.1 billion [...]
Posted in cleantech, climate change, desalination, environment, new technology, research, sustainability, water | No Comments »
Monday, May 28th, 2007
One of the things I love about the revolution in technologies at the moment is the shift from Brute Force approaches to problems, based on cheap energy and resources to smarter design based on minimising energy and resource use.
The ingenuity of these approaches were often thought up in another era.
In an age gone by when [...]
Posted in General, cleantech, climate change, concentrator, environment, green building, solar, sustainability | No Comments »
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Now this is one of those great innovations looking at a societal system and identifying the its ecological and cost structure and then innovating to bring benefits to both.
In this case that system is trash collection and disposal. The system being, installing the bins, collecting the trash and truck logistics, disposing of it.
Big Belly is [...]
Posted in General, PV, cleantech, climate change, company, environment, solar, sustainability, waste management | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
The Cleantech Show #003 (MP3 - 15MB - 42min)
This weeks podcast is an interview with Mitra Ardron. Mitra is principle of Natural Innovations a company which provides consulting services on developing businesses around sustainability, and in particular green technologies.
Mitra has previously worked in commercialising internet technologies and co-founded the international NGO Association for Progressive [...]
Posted in General, Podcast, alternative energy, australasia, cleantech, climate change, commercialisation, company, environment, investors, start-up, sustainability, venture capital | No Comments »
