I mentioned previously that Dopplr were about to add Carbon Footprint data to your travel data, well they made it live today.
I got a serious fright when I checked it first as it had mistaken my trips to Dublin last year as trips to Dublin CA (there’s a Dublin in California?). How likely was it […]
I’m going to be in the market for a new car soon. My biggest priority in choosing a car will be its carbon footprint but where can I find this information?
I trawled through Google but had a difficult time finding anything useful until I came across the British Government’s Act on CO2 site.
Here you can […]
Via James I came across this hi-res map of the continental US colour coded by CO2 emissions generated by a team out of Purdue University.
From the site’s About page:
The Vulcan Project is a NASA/DOE funded effort under the North American Carbon Program (NACP)to quantify North American fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at space and […]
ESB, the incumbent Irish energy company, are not renowned for being innovative but today they shocked everyone when they announced that they are going on a capital expenditure program worth €22 billion!
This has got to be the largest announced investment by a single company in Ireland in the history of the state.
Why am I reporting […]
Via Tim O’Reilly today I came across Saul Griffiths‘ highly informative Wattzon.org site.
The site starts out by informing us that
The average American uses 11400 Watts of power continuously. This is the equivalent of burning 114 x100 Watt light bulbs, all the time. The average person globally uses 2255 Watts of power, or a little less […]
Dopplr is a site where you add your travel-related information and it tells you of others in your network who are making similar journeys so you can meetup. Via Ian Forrester’s blog this morning I saw that Dopplr are making your travel-related carbon footprint information available.
I failed to find the functionality in my Dopplr account […]
Ireland is famous for its picturesque green landscapes. However, climatologists think that our beautiful landscape may be under serious threat if the world continues to be profligate in its carbon emissions.
According to the recently released Changing Shades of Green report (1.8mb pdf)
Ireland’s rich, green scenery may fade to brown, its potato crop may again whither, […]
We all know that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is affecting the planet’s climate. We also are all painfully aware that if we somehow stopped injecting CO2 into the air today that the climate would still continue to be affected for decades to come by the levels of CO2 already there.
And yet we discuss reducing […]
