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CO2 Calculator adds up your carbon footprint

Written by: Michael Keferl on September 19, 2008 at 8:00 am | In Fashion & Lifestyle Trends, Technology & Gadget Trends |

From Frepar Networks, makers of the Sub Spacial Communication Pod, comes a tool that will make tree huggers go crazy adding up the impending doom. The solar-powered CO2 Calculator allows you to take all of your daily activities and add them up to form your “carbon footprint”.

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Everything from utilities to trash and recyclables are included in the handy pocket device, making just about any human activity easy to compute. Is this going too far? While perhaps useful as a teaching device (”OK class, spend one week calculating your environmental impact!”) obsessive compulsive carbon mathematicians now have a new toy. If Al Gore has his way, we may just be using these to calculate our yearly Carbon Tax payments as well!

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It’s greatest potential, of course, is for learning. Japan is in the midst of a major Ecology boom that, while trendy, can always be good for creating environmental awareness at many different levels. For the next step, we’re eyeballing a function that calculates how much carbon is burned creating CO2 calculators. Gotta burn carbon to save carbon, right?

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Pingback by Business blog » Blog Archive » CO2 Calculator adds up your carbon footprint — September 19, 2008 #
[...] There are plenty of carbon footprint calculators online, but now treehugging mathematicians can easily calculate how much damage they are doing to mother Earth using this handy pocket-sized CO2 calculator. Electricity use, water, trash and gas can all be managed from this simple, portable device (although, I don’t see a button on there to calculate the impact all of your calculating has on the environment). Obviously, the CO2Calc is only available in Japan, but I’m sure it won’t be long until a similar product makes its way stateside. And yes, it is solar powered if you were wondering—which is too bad. It would be funnier if it wasn’t. [CO2Calc via Kilian Nakamura] [...]

Pingback by CO2 Pocket Calculator Does The New Hippie Math [Hippie Math] | All tech stuff — September 23, 2008 #
[...] oui, si vous vous posiez la question: elle fonctionne à l’énergie solaire. [CO2Calc via Kilian Nakamura] [...]

Pingback by C+O2=CO2 - Gizmodo - Tant d'amour pour ces fabuleux nouveaux gadgets, c'est surnaturel. — September 30, 2008 #
[...] [Link] CO2Calc via Kilian Nakamura] [...]

Pingback by CO2Calc: Carbon print calculator for Japan | TechFever Network | The Hot Tech News and Gadget Network — September 30, 2008 #
How do I order a “Keep The Earth” portable carbon calculater” from the Freepar Networks site? My Japanese is not too HOT

Comment by Rob Read — November 15, 2008 #