These days you hear a lot about carbon footprints. Which is basically a measure of how wicked and selfish you are in respect to the environment. If you’re a power company with a size 14 footprint for example you are very very wicked - if you have a smaller one you are very good. And Meridian have a very small footprint indeed - like this action-man size boot.
Here’s a sneak peak of the Energy Module of the Carbon Futures Challenge 2010. Sign up now at carbonfutures.biz.uwa.edu.au (using your mobile or computer) and take the first step to reduce your carbon footprint. The top 2 participants who make the biggest sustainable reduction to their carbon footprint will win great prizes!
This is my 10 year old 11kW wind turbine. Generating electricity with wind turbines significantly reduces CO2 emissions. Turbine on a 18m mast A Gaia-Wind turbine generating around 30000 kWh of green electricity per year, will offset around 17 tonnes of CO2 emissions from existing energy generation. This is sufficient to bring the carbon footprint of the average four person household back to zero (household energy use + car + air travel). real time data: www.pachube.com
Profitable Green Solutions–Dr. Eric Woodroof works with businesses worldwide to develop processes that reduce energy usage and increase profitability. Businesses will learn how to reducing their carbon footprint, increase efficiencies and improve profits. www.profitablegreensolutions.com
In this interview Anne Owen, research associate at SEI York Centre, explains the objective of the project ‘Greens Streets’ and what carbon footprint is. She also talks about the way they target local neighborhoods and the work methodology they use.
This video is part of the submission for Achieve Educational Systems as part of the HASTAC and MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition