Sourcemap: carbon footprint of products or companies

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Sourcemap: carbon footprint of products or companies




by Christophe » 05/02/10, 12:38

Collaborative, this database makes it possible to know the carbon footprint of a product or a food on the whole of the chain of manufacture.

Before landing in the sheds of an Ikea on the outskirts of a French city, the Sultan Alsarp bed crosses, in a kit, China, Russia, Poland and some African countries. Assessment: a carbon footprint of 247 grams of Co2. An ordinary laptop computer is made up of elements from China, Russia, Chile, Korea, Australia, Canada ... Their type and assembly amounts to a footprint of 1496,83 g of Co2. This information is freely available on the site Sourcemap.org

Community citizen platform, the site allows to identify and assess the ecological impact of all the components of a product and their origin. The “eco-conscious” internet user can draw on a database of components and means of transport to draw up the carbon footprint of a product and share their mini-survey with the community, invited to enrich these discoveries in turn. .

Led by Leonardo Bonanni, researcher at MIT Media Lab, the project thus makes it possible to make purchasing decisions no longer based on the economic cost but on the ecological cost of a product.


Found on the Figaro

Problem: for the moment the database is a bit empty (it is the users who apparently fill it up) and it only concerns products imported to the USA a priori ...
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by izentrop » 02/04/22, 02:42

The latest shift project report on the carbon footprint of laughter https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/ ... arbone.pdf
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by ABC2019 » 02/04/22, 07:15

already expired? : Mrgreen:
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