Happy New Year!

Hello Planktos shipmates!

This is just a quick new years greeting message to all our friends.

This is a very exciting year for Planktos. Our store was bustling over the holidays with all kinds of eco-friendly folks neutralizing their friends and families this holiday season. And its not too late! What a better way to start the year than by neutralizing your 2007 carbon footprint in advance. Just visit our store to look at your options.


Within the year, we will be heading out on our new research vessel as well. Be sure to keep an eye on this space for all the exciting bloom updates.

On the land side of things, Klimafa is going ahead with its new partnership with with UNEP billion tree campaign. For more information, check out the blog archive.

Climate change consciousness has reached the tipping point. Over the last six months, the level of awareness of the crisis we are facing has exploded. The media is teeming with stories about the Kyoto Protocol, voluntary emissions offsets, and local and international efforts to raise awareness and develop solutions for climate change.

Many of these exciting initiatives are coming out of the youth and on University Campuses. A great blog to keep up to date on the campus climate initiative is itsgettinghotinhere.org. You can get information about local, regional and national initiatives and events.

Over the new year I met a recent McGill graduate who had helped to develop technology that sequesters carbon dioxide in concrete! It not only makes the concrete stronger and impermeable, but has the capacity to sequester a billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. It is this kind of innovation which is needed to attack the climate crisis from as many sides as possible.

and here is a great quote passed along to be by my lovely friend Rosemary -

From an op-ed in the New York Times:

"...while our embrace of green has finally reached a tipping point, the tipping point on climate change and species loss is also fast approaching, if it’s not already here. There’s no time to lose. “People see an endangered species every day now when they look in the mirror,” said the environmentalist Rob Watson. “It is not about the whales anymore.”

Let's hope 2007 sees an explosion in climate mitigation success!