Carbon 2.0: carbon calculators and footprints
source: http://blogs.current.com/green/2009/05/29/carbon-20-carbon-calculators-and-footprints/
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Report from the Hawaii: how to offset the travel. A brief introduction to a few carbon calculators and carbon offset programs.
"I’ve been catching some slack (and for good reason) for the carbon footprint I’m creating while on this trip. In the name of full transparency, I’ll be tracking my carbon footprint as I go. I’ve just begun researching carbon calculators and am learning there is one main feature that distinguishes them. Do you want to go macro and get an overall idea for your carbon footprint for the year, or do you want to go micro, and calculate the details of your carbon footprint? I going for the micro management program, as well as the convenience of tracking as I go. I’m toggling between two iphone applications: Carbon Tracker (personal addition) uses a GPS system that you begin and end with each leg of your trip, and Twavel (made by Netscribe). Ed Begley says it’s “fantastic,” so I have high hopes.
If you are into the quick fix of getting an estimate of your early carbon foot print, you may want to check out the iphone application Carbon Calc. The application summarizes your carbon debt and then links you to paypal and “lets” you pay off your guilt right there and then. Something about this rubs me the wrong way. I see the upside, in theory, people are consciously giving a few bucks that will either fund sustainable technology, or plant trees in the Amazon. But I can’t get around that this feels like a cheap quick way of feeling like you did something (and note taken: this is hopefully step one...step two is waiting to be created...by you.) My pet peeve with all of the calculators I found to date, they don’t calculate public vs. private transportation (dude, I want my karma points)...."
Full post is here: http://blogs.current.com/green/2009/05/29/carbon-20-carbon-calculators-and-footp...
"I’ve been catching some slack (and for good reason) for the carbon footprint I’m creating while on this trip. In the name of full transparency, I’ll be tracking my carbon footprint as I go. I’ve just begun researching carbon calculators and am learning there is one main feature that distinguishes them. Do you want to go macro and get an overall idea for your carbon footprint for the year, or do you want to go micro, and calculate the details of your carbon footprint? I going for the micro management program, as well as the convenience of tracking as I go. I’m toggling between two iphone applications: Carbon Tracker (personal addition) uses a GPS system that you begin and end with each leg of your trip, and Twavel (made by Netscribe). Ed Begley says it’s “fantastic,” so I have high hopes.
If you are into the quick fix of getting an estimate of your early carbon foot print, you may want to check out the iphone application Carbon Calc. The application summarizes your carbon debt and then links you to paypal and “lets” you pay off your guilt right there and then. Something about this rubs me the wrong way. I see the upside, in theory, people are consciously giving a few bucks that will either fund sustainable technology, or plant trees in the Amazon. But I can’t get around that this feels like a cheap quick way of feeling like you did something (and note taken: this is hopefully step one...step two is waiting to be created...by you.) My pet peeve with all of the calculators I found to date, they don’t calculate public vs. private transportation (dude, I want my karma points)...."
Full post is here: http://blogs.current.com/green/2009/05/29/carbon-20-carbon-calculators-and-footp...
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plusaf:
Small steps! These carbon calculators are hardly that accurate. But I think you need to start somewhere....they just help bring awareness....
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