http://itsagreenmobileworld.com Living the high-tech low-carbon life Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:53:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2010/moving-time 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: http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2010/guidelines-for-a-sustainable-internet 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 ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2010/jazz-calculator 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. http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/presentation-about-carbon-literacy 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 ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/linking-to-the-source Using persuasive techniques for (short term) beavioral term. Well done (at least as ad stunt). Check the video. Via webbsverige http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/the-fun-theory 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 http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/solar-e-reading 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) http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/good-guide 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 ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/carbon-sins 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 ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/carbonto 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 ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/asus-eee-reader Information and communications technologies and sustainability are two areas that seems quite unrelated. But it is not so and there is a growing interest in their interplay. As a very interdisciplinary and new area there is still not a consensus on a research field definition nor very defined boundaries between ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/ict-and-sustainability-an-analysis-of-the-research-area The light novel (adapted to anime) Shangri-la presents a dystopical future where the economy market is ruled by the trade of carbon emissions. It plays with concepts as carbon taxes, carbon police corp, turning tokyo into a jungle absorbing carbon, carbon economical speculation... It is set in a high technological ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/shangri-la I'm back at work and getting update with what have happened during the last month I've been offline. I've found some pretty interesting new projects. First, two environmental applications of google maps (google maps API must be the single most important generator of web applications with environmental purpose). One comes from ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/highlights-from-my-rss-feed It has been almost a year since I started this blog. The first year of my phd studies have gone faster than expected and the time for blogging a bit more scarce than I would have liked it to be. I wrote 47 articles, but I think I have as ... http://itsagreenmobileworld.com/2009/holidays