Blackbird, the high-flying cloud-native video editing platform, has been so taken with the work of a little UK carbon calculator project called albert, that it has signed up for green supplier status. While Blackbird is technically a UK-based company, like many vendors it desperately wants to appear American, having built up a respectable US client base. Our question is therefore why video technology suppliers aren’t talking more about albert equivalents for the US market, including PEACH (Production Environmental Actions Checklist) and its sister PEAR (Production Environmental Accounting Report)? The implications of albert’s growing reputation among video technology suppliers in the US are of course resoundingly positive for the climate effort while at the same time being damning for similar homegrown…