MAKING CARBON VISIBLE

SEPTEMBER 15th, 2009

It might be the greatest challenge facing humanity but getting people to engage with climate change has long proved difficult. Two of the main obstacles preventing people from relating to greenhouse gas emissions are the abstract nature of the term ‘carbon footprint’ and the fact that greenhouse gasses are invisible. The Carbon Quilt is an interactive tool, endorsed by top scientists, that aims to create a visual language to help communication.

The tool converts statistics such as: “every day we pump 80 million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere” into more meaningful amounts such as: “at the rate we emit Carbon Dioxide it would take four seconds to fill the UN building seven times”. The Carbon Quilt also personalises the CO2 emissions by being applicable to any scale, from continental emissions to those of a single light bulb.

Try it out and find out more at carbonquilt.org

Source: Green Thing Blog

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