Category Archives: travel

Reduce your carbon footprint using virtual worlds

May 8, 2008 – 11:26 am

Virtual Worlds such as Second Life are largely dismissed as trivial and a waste of time by many people (myself included until recently!).
However a recent conversation with Pierre-Olivier Carles changed all that for me. Pierre is the co-founder and CEO of Stonefield Inworld - a company which builds things for people in virtual worlds.
For example, […]

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Dopplr rolls out Carbon Footprint data

April 22, 2008 – 3:16 pm

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 […]

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Dopplr and BA adding Carbon Footprint info

March 18, 2008 – 11:31 am

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 […]

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