Archive for the 'sustainability' Category
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
The Cleantech Show #35 (MP3 - 13MB - 36min)
Interview with Nick Rowley, Director of Kinesis and Former advisor to PM Tony Blair
For two week in december last year more than 10,000 participants were brought together by the UNFCCC for the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, including representatives of over 180 countries together with observers [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
For those of you like me wanting to know the guts of the Bali Action Plan, here you go.
The Bali Action Plan is linked to the page:
http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php
and can be downloaded direct from:
http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/cop_13/application/pdf/cp_bali_act_p.pdf
The agreement of the Kyoto parties (ie. not including the US) is likely to be
found in due course at:
http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/3878.php
Source: Phillip Sutton, Greenleap Mailing List
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #32 (MP3 - 12MB - 34min)
Interview with Monique Conheady, CEO and Founder, Flexicar
Many of you in major cities are most likely aware of care sharing programs, albeit under potentially different names. Some of you probably fit the demographic just by listening to this show, and may well be participants. Car sharing [...]
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
The Cleantech Show #029 (MP3 - 13MB - 35min)
Interview with Jan Dekker, Cleantech Ventures - Venture Capital Firm
Following on from our recent shows on Technology Transfer and Research Commercialisation, on this weeks show we look at the process of Venture Capital investment into Cleantech. My guest this week is Jan Dekker, Investment Principle of [...]
Posted in Australia, Podcast, clean tech, cleantech, private equity, sustainability, venture capital | No Comments »
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Yesturday I had the pleasure of being present when Al Gore opened the new FEX-SIM sustainability and cleantech stock exchange in Sydney. Here’s a wrap up.
The exchange is the creation of Brian Price, whom I interviewed recently on the cleantech show during which we discussed the FEX-SIM in detail. You can listed to the [...]

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Posted in Australia, Carbon Tax, Investment, al gore, clean tech, cleantech, climate change, kyoto protocol, stock market, sustainability | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #019 (MP3 - 14MB - 38min)
Interview with Mark Sinclair, Windlab Systems
According to Global Wind Energy Council figures 2006 recorded an increase of installed capacity of 15,197 MW, taking the total installed wind energy capacity to 74,223 MW.
Key to the continued development of wind resources around the world is the accurate assessment, modelling [...]
Posted in General, Podcast, clean tech, cleantech, climate change, modelling, renewable energy, sustainability, wind energy, wind resources | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Gil Friend’s posted this interesting discussion regarding the impact of the coal industry and an article in Architecture 2030 . Have a read through and for those Australian’s in the Audience think about the impact of our policy to push a clean coal future. Now the article doesn’t even go into detail of the [...]
Posted in clean coal, clean tech, cleantech, climate change, renewables, sustainability, thermal power | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #017 (MP3 - 14MB - 37min)
Interview with Phil Kithill, Atmocean Inc.
In February 2007, Richard Branson and Al Gore announced a new global science and technology prize - The Virgin Earth challenge - whereby an individual or group can demonstrate a solution that can remove at least 1 billion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide [...]
Posted in C02, General, Podcast, carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, clean tech, cleantech, climate change, ocean technology, sustainability, virgin earth challenge | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #017 (MP3 - 15MB - 41min)
India is quickly becoming one of the worlds largest markets for clean technology. With rapid economic growth, coupled with issues of poverty, energy supply, food and water provision and pollution its appetite is steadily growing for technologies, and companies who can work with India companies and government [...]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #014 (MP3 - 11MB - 30min)
The Active Reactor is an electronic device that saves electricity and energy when used with HID (high intensity discharge) lamps. On this weeks show founder and Managing Director of The Active Reactor Richard Dluzniak and I explore the massive potential for this technology to reduce the energy [...]
Posted in Active Balast, Energy efficiency, General, Podcast, Reduced Maintenance, Savings, Stadium Lighting, Street Lighting, clean tech, cleantech, climate change, emissions reduction, sustainability | No Comments »