[SustainableTompkins] easy technology for checking your own carbon footprint

[Joey Gates]

I am not sure I want my movements tracked by
satelllite...more than they already are.

--- Patricia Haines <levelgreeninstitute at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> intriguing new technology - worth checking out -
> from http://blog.tmcnet.com/green-blog/
>    
>   Become a Carbon Hero  February 26, 2008 
>      With more and more people becoming conscious of
> their environmental responsibilities these days, the
> focus on reducing global warming has escalated.
>    
>   To this end, more people are looking for ways they
> can do their part to become green and reduce their
> carbon footprint.
>    
>   Now, a new device that helps increase peoples
> awareness is helping them to become a 'Carbon Hero.'
>    
>   That’s what Andreas Zachariah, a graduate student
> from the Royal College of Art in London and inventor
> of Carbon Hero and Oxford graduate student Nick
> Burch are saying about their product, the Carbon
> Hero.
>    
>   The new device is a personal carbon calculator
> that detects movement using satellite navigation and
> displays a user's carbon footprint on their mobile
> phone.
>    
>   Becoming more aware of ones own contributions, and
> the difference they can make by choosing a different
> method of travel, can have a positive impact on
> green initiatives.  
>    
>   “If you go on a diet you want to see if all that
> effort has made a difference so you weigh yourself.
> The beauty of our system is that it’s easy; you have
> a ’weighing scale’ on you all the time giving you
> your carbon footprint. When you make the effort to
> walk instead of taking the car you can immediately
> see the result, so it feels more worthwhile doing it
> and you are more likely to stick with it,” Zachariah
> was quoted as saying in this ScienceDaily report.
>    
>   And not only can this new device help users
> personally discover and adjust their impact on the
> environment but also, businesses looking at the
> benefits of going green, can find benefit in using
> Carbon Hero as well. 
>    
>   “Companies that use Carbon Hero could present the
> results in their annual report, together with other
> ways in which they are helping the environment. It
> is easy to document carbon emissions from heating
> and electricity; now with Carbon Hero, companies can
> also document CO2 emissions from business travel,”
> Zachariah was also quoted as saying.
>    
>   Check it out for yourself at CarbonHero.net 
> 
> 
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