CarbageSocial Innovation Camp 2009Submission

support presentation

Meet Joe.

He’s heard about carbon footprints, and climate change.

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But he’s totally confused by conflicting info about all of this stuff.

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So he flies RyanAir, eats loads of red meat and drives around all day long.

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But it’s okay.

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Because he unplugs his phone charger when he isn’t using it.

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This story keeps happening across the country.

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See the thing is, none of us want to actively screw up this planet.

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But we can’t easily measure the effects of the steps we take.

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So most of us either ignore the problem...

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... or make quaint little token gestures.

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We need a way to know if what we’re doing is actually helping.

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Or at least if we did better today than yesterday.

Make it feel like a game

Make it feel like a game

How do we do this?

Speed up feedback

Give ownership over carbon data

Make data portable and aggregate it

What we need for

this:

Smart meter

Wifi box in building

A phone or laptop for each person

The Uk government is putting

smart meters in

every house in the UK.

They can measure power every 6

seconds

Phone ownership in

UK is approaching

200%

Average of 2 phones

per personnow!

All phones and laptops have unique ID’s you can listen for on a wireless network.

Rough outline of

how it would work.

Wifi box detects Joe by his phone or laptop.

Wifi box talks to smart meter

Wifi box turns smart meter figure to Co2 figure

Wifi box shares data with Joe, while he is in the building

Sample scenario: Joe at work

At work Joe shares an office with two other people

24Kwhrecorded with

meter in office

So the power for

each person is about 8kwh.

24Kwhbetween3 people

We use AMEE

to convert this...

Today: 25kilos

CO2

per person

Joes switches off lights in a room they don’t use.

Yesterday:25 kg / person

Today: 20 kg / person

Joe and everyone

else see how much it saves.

Yesterday:25 kg / person

Today: 20 kg / person

Joe’s feeling awesome and green and all

empowered and stuff!

This works at home and

anywhere with wifi and smart meter

We suddenly have a

target to aim it!

He’s starting to...

take out the

carbage.

Please help us find a new name... (sorry)

Follow us on twitter!

Thanks!Chris Adams@chris_d_adams

James Gardner@thejimmyg