For me to POOP ON...
Posted on 05/15/2007 12:02:47 AM PDT by mathprof
A new Internet tool to help individuals and communities curb their role in adding global-warming carbon emissions will be announced today at a conference in New York of mayors from around the world, said a person who built the Web technology.
Many environmental groups offer simple carbon calculators on the Web, which allow people to figure the carbon dioxide production from daily routines like driving a car or lighting a house.
“But this is serious software, serious quantitative methods and social networking technology brought to the green world,” said Ron Dembo, the chief executive of Zerofootprint, a nonprofit group that provides information and services to combat global warming.
Mr. Dembo, a founder of an analytics software company and a former computer scientist at Yale University, said details of the Web service would be described today at the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit, by David Miller, the mayor of Toronto.
The Web service, called GoZero Footprint City Calculator, is a collaboration of Zerofootprint and Business Objects, a maker of business intelligence software. Bernard Liautaud, the chairman of Business Objects, said that his company had joined the project as an initial step in using its software to help people on the Web create a “collective intelligence” to address humanitarian issues.
On the interactive climate site, people will be able to enter data, see the carbon effect and how their carbon footprint compares with averages in their city and in cities worldwide. They will also be able to do what-if simulations, to see how changes in their activities affect carbon emissions. The anonymous data will be collected for analysis by climate change scientists and others.
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I need one so I can flush it down the toilet.
Does it calculate the carbon one puts into the ground in the form of paper or plastic waste?
If the NYT wanted to save Mother Gaia, which is not the same as posing as her knight, they’d have stopped murdering forests and gone all-web.
Oh, joy, just what we all need to become responsible earthdwellers!
For me to POOP ON...
* Vendor: Zerofootprint
* Type: One Tonne Offset
$ 10.00 (Canadian)
We won’t send you a tonne of carbon, but you can rest assured that a tonne of carbon has been offset in your name. Buy as many tonnes as you want.
Yeah, every time I see words like "rest assured", I get this funny urge to check to see that my wallet is still in my pocket.
I need me one of them carbon footprints, cause WalMart was out of odor-eaters last week.
Who wants to be first to calculate the carbon footprint of Barrack Hussein Obama’s Hemi?
... or John Edwards' lil' ol' house on the prairie. ... or Al Gore's manse, ... or John Kerry's Gulfstream 5.
Sheesh, that IS a pantload, isn't it?
It still makes me feel guilty, even though I "don't believe in showering", and compost in my apartment without a lawn, and my parents both "ride bikes to work".
This new carbon calculator, is that like prayer beads?
REAL software developers don't say things like this.
If everybody used as much as algore we would need 64 Earths (20*3.2, see my tagline)!
Bumper Sticker Idea:
“I upped my carbon footprint - UP YOURS!”
Don’t bother, it’s going to cost you 2 Carbon Credits to use it. A wise man once said, “A Carbon Credit Saved is A Carbon Credit Earned.”
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