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GreenMode is all about sustainability and climate change. For us and our clients:
- Green deals are Gold!
Actively answer environmental demands and the profits follow.
Our current projects include:
- Your Carbon Advantage - assisting business to capitalise climate change opportunities.
- Finding a Sustainable Advantage - using Ecological Footprints to motivate and deliver profitable change.
- Affordable, low-carbon growth for developments.
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Exceed environmental laws and regulations”
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GreenMode Sustainability Developments
Eight Convenient Climate Truths | February 20th, 2010
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 It doesn't matter what you think about climate science and scepticism... it still makes compelling sense to cut our carbon emissions.
That's the message sitting behind Amory Lovins' Eight Convenient Climate Truths. Amory says our opinions about climate science shouldn’t change what you should do about energy.
Nor should we argue about the cost to the economy or if it's worth paying to protect the climate. Protecting the climate is not costly but profitable.
The full eight convenient truths are on the Rocky Mountains Institute website.
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Our message: act! | February 17th, 2010
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 Our message to government and businesses is clear. Act now, says Richard Branson.
He's featured in the forward to the UK's Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security
The credit crunch in 2008 stressed government and businesses to the extreme. Richard says The next five years will see us face another crunch - the oil crunch. This time, we do have the chance to prepare.
It's a report on the end of cheap oil. The authors urge action: We must plan for a world in which oil prices are likely to be both higher and more volatile and where oil price shocks have the potential to destabilise economic, political and social activity.
Download the full report here
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Green Customers Up | January 25th, 2010
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 In just one year, the number of Australians considering climate change when they buy doubled. Nearly half (47 percent) of people surveyed in the Ipsos-Eureka 2009 Climate Change report nominate purchasing decisions as a main behaviour undertaken to reduce emissions.
This trend is supported by some hard statistics. An Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) survey finds from 2007 to 2008 the number of Australian households buying green/renewable electricity increased – significantly!
The ABS records a 51 percent jump in the quantity of green power sold. The latest national figures show greenpower customers are approaching a million households in Australia.
Picture: Quote from Ipsos-Eureka Climate Change report
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A century of warming | January 6th, 2010
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 2009 is Australia's second warmest year ever since 1910.
That's the finding from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology who say that 2009 will be remembered for extreme bushfires, dust-storms, lingering rainfall deficiencies, areas of flooding and record-breaking heatwaves.
The graph shows temperature change, averaged over 10 years, the grey bars. It's a consistent picture worldwide - watch the world warm in these NASA animations from 1880 to 2006.
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Picturing carbon over time | December 9th, 2009
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 Having trouble with lots of carbon numbers and Copenhagen claims? A solution is the World Bank's Data Visualizer. It does a great job in turning numbers into pictures.
It's hard to visualise greenhouse gas emissions, and more difficult still to conceptualise the numbers over time, across countries and against other important measures like economy and health. In the image, the bubble size is total emission plotted against economy (horizontal) and per person emissions (vertical).
Go to the Data Visualizer site, chose what you want to compare - from the left hand side menu - and then press play and watch the changes over time.
And a suggestion for the World Bank. Add future scenarios to this visualiser. It would be great to see the data map a path for contraction of total greenhouse emissions and, convergence to equivalent per person emissions, in the future.
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More than GDP | December 1st, 2009
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 Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France with his high powered Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (CMEPSP - including Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi) form the latest group to join the call for a better measure of progress than GDP.
The CMEPSP's report (3Mb pdf) highlights current well-being alongside the assessment of sustainability - whether this well-being can last over time. It's recommendations focus on changing our emphasis from measuring economic production to quality of life, equity and our well being over time and into the future.
It's not a new argument - famous examples included Bhutan's Gross National Happiness, Redefining Progress and, The New Economics Foundation. But it is a very prominent call for change.
Nicolas Sarkozy is encouraging a great revolution to economic and well being measurement. Others in France however see GDP here for a long time into the future. GDP criticisms include the non measurement of state expenditure, such as some public health and, the positive value it places on destructive economic activity.
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