Young climate campaigners from the Woodcraft Folk have today unveiled the first mobile phone application that allows you to calculate your carbon footprint.
The Climate:Mobile calculator will estimate the annual greenhouse emissions using a series of twenty youth life style questions divided into sections such as the home, transport, flights, food and general consumption. The aim of the application is to help young people understand their contribution to climate change and encourage them to reduce it. Once the user has answered all of the questions they will be given top tips on reducing their carbon footprint that uses data from The Centre for Alternative Technology’s carbon calculator – a tool that is highly regarded by major sustainability organizations. The Climate:Mobile has been funded by the Pilkingtons Energy Efficiency Fund (PEET) which gives financial support to energy efficiency research, testing or evaluation projects for the built-environment.
You can get your very own climate calculator by texting CLIMATE to 80010 (standard network rates apply), or by visiting www.switchonswitchoff.org – although it wasn’t available on the site at time of writing this article.