France urges Australia to keep climate commitment ahead of UN summit
The French government is urging Australia to stick to an international commitment to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. Read more here.
A fact on carbon emissions
Do you know that the internet releases around 830m tonnes of CO2 a year? Internet and other components of information communication and technology (ICT) industry annually produces more than 830 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas,…
School gardens improve students’ health and willingness to eat vegetables
WithOneSeed runs an environment education week in Baguia Timor Leste annually. This year the focus of the week will be on the establishment of school gardens at the 35 schools in Baguia. Education focused on improving the health of students…
A fact on carbon emissions
Do you know that over 1.2 trillion Giga bytes of data is currently being stored in data farms across the planet? This is projected to grow to 40 trillion gigabytes by 2020. That’s the amount of data IDC predicts will…
Quantifying the impact of climate change
New report from the Climate Council New ground-breaking scientific research in 2014 can now tell us just how much of an influence climate change has on a single heatwave or heat records. Read more here.
Human activity has pushed Earth beyond four of nine ‘planetary boundaries’, scientists warn
At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a "safe operating space" for human beings. That is the conclusion of a new paper published in the journal Science by 18 researchers trying…
Cold filter coffee is here!
Happy New Year from WithOneBean! We have some very exciting projects in the pipeline for 2015 which we are working on and looking forward to bringing to the streets of Melbourne. Up first is our delicious new Cold Filter Coffee…
No tea and scones for you, Tone … Firefighters call on Abbott
In the past week we’ve seen bushfires consume huge stretches of land in South Australia and Victoria. 19 communities totalling thousands of residents were forced to evacuate their homes around Adelaide, more than 2,000 firefighters were called upon to battle…
Put it back Tony!
"If you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax?" (Tony Abbott 2009). The graph shows the national electricity market – Annualised carbon emissions. The red line marks when the carbon tax…
Catholic bishops call for end to fossil fuels
WOW: Catholic bishops from around the world are calling for an end to fossil fuel use and increased efforts to secure a global climate treaty! Speaking about the announcement, Monsignor Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón, Archbishop of Ayacucho, and president of the…
