Publications

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

• Benchmarking
• Buildings and Retrofits
• Communities
• Corporate and Government
• Employee Engagement
• Individuals
• Offsetting

Latest Publications

• Employee and Customer Engagement on Steroids

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

• 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?

Benchmarking

• 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.

• What the environmental world needs is universal benchmarking in the fight against global warming

Buildings and Retrofits

• The Reskinning Awards

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

• ZFP ReSkinning Winners 2010

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

• Lets Make our Buildings as Smart as 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.

• Lets 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.

• Lets 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.

• A Retrofit Program With Right Design

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

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...

• 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.

Corporate and Government

• Lets 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.

• 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?

• Lets 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.

• Risk Thinking

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

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.

• 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.

• Carbon Footprint of Local FoodThe Environmental Impact of Diet

  Measuring the carbon footprint of our food.

Offsetting

• Everything You Wanted To Know About Offsetting But Were Afraid To Ask

  A Book about carbon offsetting for the layman.

• Best Practice Report

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

• Why Offset with Trees

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

• So You Think You Don’t Offset

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

• Forest Restoration Vs. 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.

• Additionaility Issue In Offsetting

  A concept that ensures your offsets are legitimate.