Mobile instant guilt killer
August 18th, 2008
Picture thanks to Jan Chipchase
One of the applications in my thesis was a “mobile instant guilt killer”, meaning a easy way to offset carbon dioxide emissions on the move. If the mobile phones are aware of our greenhouse gases emissions (following our travel patterns using gps) and they reminds us of our lifestyle excesses, why would they not help us reliving the guilt a bit?
I hadn’t found any such application yet, but today reading Jan Chipchase blog I saw that Nokia has recently released an offsetting application developed together with Climate Care! Jan had used the application for offsetting his travel Kabul – Dubai – Tokyo. In the post he brings up the interesting question that such semi automated application makes so easy to offset your actions that you do not need to reflect about the problem (maybe hindering a needed behavioral change).
A good move from Nokia. I could not install the application on my phone, but I will give it a try soon.