After almost two years I’ve been writing less frequently in this blog. The reason is mostly that the title restricted me too much. In the beginning my research was going to focus around mobile phones. But in reality most of my research and my projects are more about web and internet. What I’m researching can be defined by the more general term Sustainable Internet (mobile or not), if you read the previous post you have some hints about what I define as sustainable internet and how to work towards it. After starting sustainableinternet.org I have decided to move this blog there. From now on you can follow my research there. I migrated all the old posts there too. I’m looking forward to this new stage, see you there!

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I gave a seminar yesterday about my ideas of how internet could be more sustainable, both from an environmental perspective, both also from a personal / society perspective.
In the website sustainableinternet.org you’ll find all the guidelines and the possibility to comment and participate!
Here is the presentation:

Jazz calculator is a flash web site advertising the new eco-fuel VW Passat. It compares its low carbon emissions with the emissions a jazz band generate while playing (breathing generates CO2..). Even if the comparison is quite absurd (that’s the point) I think that its persuasion intent, to show how small the car emissions are, is pretty effective. This idea is quite in line with some of the discussions we’ve had at persuasion, and in line with carbon.to.

By DDB stockholm

The same agency developed a similar idea for the iphone, where your breathing emissions when blowing in the iphone mic were compared with how many km the car could drive emitting the same.

The usability of carbon dioxide information from sustainablecommunications on Vimeo.

Small presentation part of the World Usability Day 2009 activities. Disclaimer: I was sick so I was a bit slow and drowsy.

I saw the idea of linking to the source that was one of the prototypes from my master thesis in one anime serie (Net Ghost PiPoPa). The basic idea is the same, to use ict to create a link between the individual product and its producer in the moment of buying.

The food is tagged, in this case a QR code.

The screen at the shop plays a video of the producer telling the story behind the food.

Using persuasive techniques for (short term) beavioral term. Well done (at least as ad stunt). Check the video.

Via webbsverige

5 hours of sunlight => 1 extra day of reading. I like it. It is however confusing if it’s a hack to the existing sony reader (I would like that) or if they are working in their own device.

Via Engadget

Good Guide, empowering consumers, making data transparent through ICT. I like it. Check their iphone app too.

(Met some of the people working there when at Berkeley last spring)

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!