Categories: Technology

Track Your Carbon Footprint

Itâ€™s a free, open-source Adobe AIR app that calculates your carbon footprint by measuring the fuel, power, and paper you use. And it does much of this automatically. By tracking your carbon consumption, itâ€™ll help you see where you have the most negative impact so you know where to put the three Rs into action. Aside from reducing, reusing, and recycling, it can link you to places where you can offset your carbon totals. ECOBOT is here for your greener good from the outset to the offset.

How does it work?

See your fuel consumption. Wherever you take your laptop, ECOBOT automatically detects that youâ€™ve travelled by keeping track of the wireless networks you access and letting you assign geographic locations to each. When you move from one network to another, it calculates the distance. Once detected, youâ€™re prompted to enter how you got there, and the distance will be added to your trip history. Of course, if youâ€™ve got a desktop computer, you can manually enter your travels instead of lugging a hard drive around.

It is now in Beta, you can check it out and install on your computer and start tracking your Carbon Footprint.

Arnt Eriksen

Arnt Eriksen has worked with creative and visual communication for the last 2 decades, and is one of the leading authorities within digital- and social media in Norway. With his extensive experience from the advertising industry and from running his own agency for years, he delivers and builds actionable and quality relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Arnt combines strategic and creative thinking with storytelling to engage and attract clients to companies. Arnt is a passionate and engaged speaker, keynoter and advisor to teach companies about communication and social media covering subjects such as “the future of communication”, “the ROI of Social Media” and “You – a digital brand” Connect with him at @arnteriksen