Comments on: Two good software tools for calculating emissions http://www.carboncommentary.com/2010/01/08/1150 A critical appraisal of issues in the move to a low-carbon economy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wookey http://www.carboncommentary.com/2010/01/08/1150/comment-page-1#comment-2967 Wookey Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:10:18 +0000 http://www.carboncommentary.com/?p=1150#comment-2967 I agree imeasure is a very useful tool. Sign up now, start using it. Footprinter, on the hand, doesn't work at all with free tools - it requires the Adobe Flashplayer and won't work at all with Free replacements. That's no use at all in my book - the web is good because important technologies are not proprietary. Software authors that ignore gnash and swfdec should not be rewarded with users. You wouldn't like a proprietary web - remember what happened when all the browser authours started providing their own proprietary extensions, and it got really hard to write a web-page that everyone could read? Well, it'll be 100 times worse than that. I agree imeasure is a very useful tool. Sign up now, start using it.

Footprinter, on the hand, doesn’t work at all with free tools – it requires the Adobe Flashplayer and won’t work at all with Free replacements. That’s no use at all in my book – the web is good because important technologies are not proprietary. Software authors that ignore gnash and swfdec should not be rewarded with users. You wouldn’t like a proprietary web – remember what happened when all the browser authours started providing their own proprietary extensions, and it got really hard to write a web-page that everyone could read? Well, it’ll be 100 times worse than that.

]]> By: Lightbulbs I like « http://www.carboncommentary.com/2010/01/08/1150/comment-page-1#comment-2826 Lightbulbs I like « Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:42:20 +0000 http://www.carboncommentary.com/?p=1150#comment-2826 [...] If you’ve spent a small fortune on a lovely light fitting, the last thing you want to do is fit a clunky, unattractive bulb. There are some beautiful bulbs on the market now and there really is no excuse for this (see left) anymore, in fact the only reason it’s still in our bedroom is that (a)  I’m too mean to change it and (b) it’s adequate for the job. I’m sure you’d agree though, it’s not very pretty and doesn’t exactly conjure up a mood of romance or serenity! We recently spotted some gorgeous twisted candle bulbs in a hotel inGeneva,  the manager was very keen to tell us they had recently upgraded all the bulbs to energy efficient models and he had a draw full of the “U tube” variety (like in the picture) if any guest wanted to take them away! We have 32 light bulbs in our house, shocked? Count yours – oh and there’s a string of 100 LED party lights in the kitchen too. We didn’t replace all our bulbs at once, it took a couple of years. We started with the bulbs we use most, the kitchen, hall and living room. Firstly, we used the freebie U – tube shaped ones the Energy Saving Trust give away at community events and slowly sought out nicer ones. I also helped set up a light bulb library run by my local Brownie pack, thanks to the very helpful advice of Chris Goodall (author of  How to Live a Low Carbon Life), you can read his advice on light bulb libraries here and a review he wrote of a couple of carbon footprinting tools here. [...] [...] If you’ve spent a small fortune on a lovely light fitting, the last thing you want to do is fit a clunky, unattractive bulb. There are some beautiful bulbs on the market now and there really is no excuse for this (see left) anymore, in fact the only reason it’s still in our bedroom is that (a)  I’m too mean to change it and (b) it’s adequate for the job. I’m sure you’d agree though, it’s not very pretty and doesn’t exactly conjure up a mood of romance or serenity! We recently spotted some gorgeous twisted candle bulbs in a hotel inGeneva,  the manager was very keen to tell us they had recently upgraded all the bulbs to energy efficient models and he had a draw full of the “U tube” variety (like in the picture) if any guest wanted to take them away! We have 32 light bulbs in our house, shocked? Count yours – oh and there’s a string of 100 LED party lights in the kitchen too. We didn’t replace all our bulbs at once, it took a couple of years. We started with the bulbs we use most, the kitchen, hall and living room. Firstly, we used the freebie U – tube shaped ones the Energy Saving Trust give away at community events and slowly sought out nicer ones. I also helped set up a light bulb library run by my local Brownie pack, thanks to the very helpful advice of Chris Goodall (author of  How to Live a Low Carbon Life), you can read his advice on light bulb libraries here and a review he wrote of a couple of carbon footprinting tools here. [...]

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