Carbon guilt is a common problem these days. I’m still wondering around how to balance the fact that we actually need to change pretty radical with scaring away people with a guilty feeling.

At greengaged they set up a confession cabin for lightening our environmental souls. I think it is a pretty interesting topic they are pointing out.

Photography by Travis Drever

Info at : Greenengaged.

In our everyday life we are increasingly exposed to carbon dioxide information for our everyday life. From the grams CO2 the burger we ordered produced to the tons our travel created. I am exploring the concept of carbon literacy, our knowledge to interpret, understand and relate carbon dioxide information. My hypothesis is that ICT applications can be used to to improve carbon literacy , and so to make better decisions to reduce our carbon footprint.

Together with Henrik Berggren and David Kjelkerud I participated in the 24h development camp Ecomo09 inLondon. The ideas was to spend 24 hours, from 6.pm to 6.pm developing an application from scratch, in this case with an environmental theme. After some brainstorming sessions we decided to focus on an application to improve transform carbon information between different units.

Hacking at 3.a.m

The result is carbon.to a web application that allows to:

• Transform carbon dioxide information to other units for example km of train.
• Compare different footprints for instance how many apples footprints equal a 4 hours flight
• Use as an API to transform CO2 information and present it in your own service in another unit. For instance: carbon.to/apples?co2=10 gives you back an XML with how many

Screenshot

We will keep in updating the service and we will also try to analyze the impact and what it needs to be improved. Have a look and play around with it!

As seen in timesonline (via engadget) asus confirmed the release of a cheap double sided e-reader. Would it be an explosion as the netbooks? In the picture it can be seen that it have color screens and in the article is mentioned: Whereas current ebook readers have monochrome screens, the Asus would be full colour. It doesn’t specify which type of screen technology, but if it isn’t e-ink or equivalent it just misses the whole point of an e-reader! Without it it is not comfortable to read a whole 1000 pages book on it, nor sit outside in full sun. I will call this a tablet optimized for web reading, but maybe it’s probably the beginning of hybrid reading devices. Let’s see how it keeps developing.