Zerofootprint ideas on issues related to energy efficiency, climate change, and technology.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Turn Your Energy Waste Into Social Good

What if you could leverage wasted energy dollars into many dollars of good to help your favorite cause?

Employee and Customer Engagement on Steroids

Linking corporate philanthropy and customer and employee engagement could enhance the power of each.


BENCHMARKING:

What the Environmental World Needs is Universal Benchmarking in the Fight Against Global Warming

Without Environmental Benchmarking We Will Never Engage the Financial Markets to Green Our Infrastructure

A More Sane Way to Rate Eco-Resorts

With proper benchmarking, green travelers would have a better idea if their resort is the real deal.


CORPORATE & GOVERNMENT:

Turn Your Energy Waste Into Social Good

What if you could leverage wasted energy dollars into many dollars of good to help your favorite cause?

Let’s Do For Buildings What We Have Done For Cars (Canada)

A Carbon Sticker is a simple, effective way to demonstrate carbon performance to tenants and customers.

Let’s Do For Buildings What We Have Done For Cars (US)

A Carbon Sticker is a simple, effective way to demonstrate carbon performance to tenants and customers.

Green Credits

An innovative alternative to carbon tax and cap-and-trade schemes. Green Credits is a program for governments to reduce carbon emissions.

Carbon Value-at-Risk

Building on established best practice, a new method is required to capture the size & probability of the threat - carbon value-at-risk (VaR).

Enterprise Carbon
Management

In a low carbon economy measuring carbon impact regularly will require a new function: Enterprise Carbon Management.

How to Interpret
Carbon Calculators

There are many differences among calculators, we explain why.

The Problem
of Permanence

Why we must factor in the risk of impermanence into our calculations and make offset schemes more robust and credible.

How Governments Should Fund Retrofits

Government money could be leveraged by focusing on insuring the benefits that accrue from retrofitting rather than the capital needed for retrofits.


EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT:

Employee and Customer Engagement on Steroids

Linking corporate philanthropy and customer and employee engagement could enhance the power of each.


MANAGING RISK:

RISKthinking

The future is always uncertain - but just how uncertain matters when making strategic decisions.

RISKthinking: Presentation at TEDuniversity Oxford

Take a look at Ron Dembo’s original TED presentation from July, 2010.


OFFSETTING:

Everything you Wanted to Know About Offsetting but Were Afraid to Ask

A Book about carbon offsetting for the layman.

Best Practice Guidelines For Approval of Avoided

How real, lasting and verifiable GHG emissions reductions can be achieved with forests.

So You Think You Don’t Offset

Garbage and recycling systems makes offsetting part of our daily lives.

Why Offset with Trees When Fossil Fuels are to Blame

Burning fossil fuels accounts for the largest proportion of carbon emissions. But, the loss of trees plays a significant role.

Forest Restoration V. Reforestation

Forest restoration as a means of managing carbon emissions.

Trees - the Only Known Carbon Scrubbers

Why trees are our strongest allies in the battle against climate change.

Offsetting as a Sop to Conscience

Doing offsetting right means real and positive change to the environment.

The Additionality Issue in Offsetting

A concept that ensures to your offsets are legitimate.


COMMUNITIES:

Turn Your Energy Waste Into Social Good

What if you could leverage wasted energy dollars into many dollars of good to help your favorite cause?

Villages: A Country without Borders

Villages have a source of power to fight climate change - their sheer number. Zerofootprint aims to harness the power of this global community.

City Dwellers

Where countries fall out over Kyoto and its alternatives, cities are recognizing that they can act in concert uniting city dwellers around solutions.

Countries Without Borders

Cities can fight against climate change together and have as much impact on the environment as a wealthy nation.

Kyoto from the
Bottom Up

Harnesses the power of the Internet to mobilize communities to meet climate change targets.

Setting a Sustainable Example

The importance of leadership “walking the walk.”

Cities, Villages and Adaptation to Climate Change

Villages are inherently more resilient and adaptable than cities - increasingly important as the climate shifts.


BUILDINGS AND RETROFITS

The Re-Skinning Awards

Zerofootprint runs the annual Re-Skinning Awards to celebrate the best in retrofitting and re-skinning projects from around the world.

Re-Skinning Awards 2010: Winners and Finalists

Winners and Finalists of the 2010 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards, presented in Rio de Janeiro.

Let’s Make Our Buildings As Smart As Our Cars

Our buildings are dumb. By making them smart, intelligent action can be taken to reduce emissions.

New Skin, New Hope

Re-skinning can make our buildings more beautiful, efficient and smart.

Let’s Do For Buildings What We Have Done For Cars (Canada)

A Carbon Sticker is a simple, effective way to demonstrate carbon performance to tenants and customers.

Let’s Do For Buildings What We Have Done For Cars (US)

A Carbon Sticker is a simple, effective way to demonstrate carbon performance to tenants and customers.

How Governments Should Fund Retrofits

Government money could be leveraged by focusing on insuring the benefits that accrue from retrofitting rather than the capital needed for retrofits.

At Last, a Retrofit Program with the Right Design

A new model of retrofit funding has arrived with the financial market support it needs to be a success.


INDIVIDUALS:

Villages: A Country without Borders

Villages have a source of power to fight climate change - their sheer number. Zerofootprint aims to harness the power of this global community.

The Challenge of Water

Measuring and managing water is a huge problem. How can we meet this challenge?

Make Every Home a Generator

Make every building a generator of energy and minimize risk.

The Real Price of
The Food We Eat

The need to measure all the environmental impacts of food production and distribution to understand how to make the most informed food choices.

Oh Christmas Tree

Weighing the pros and cons of purchasing live trees at Christmas.

The Carbon Footprint of Local Food

Measuring the carbon footprint of our food.

The Environmental Impact of Diet

Examining the Ecological Effects of Different Food Choices


WATER:

The Challenge of Water

Measuring and managing water is a huge problem. How can we meet this challenge?