Green Options » carbon diem http://greenoptions.com/tag/carbon-diem Posts tagged 'carbon diem' Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:17:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en New Mobile Phone App to Track Carbon Footprint http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/29/new-mobile-phone-app-to-track-carbon-footprint/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/29/new-mobile-phone-app-to-track-carbon-footprint/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:17:56 +0000 Timothy B. Hurst http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/29/new-mobile-phone-app-to-track-carbon-footprint/ A new software application will make keeping track of your carbon footprint as easy as having a mobile phone in your pocket. A London-based start-up has developed software for mobile phones that uses global positioning systems (GPS) to automatically figure out whether you are walking, driving or flying and then calculate your impact on the environment.

Carbon Diem’s inventors claim that, by using GPS to measure the speed and pattern of movement, their algorithm can identify the mode of transport being used. The software then calculates the amount of carbon dioxide the journey has emitted into the atmosphere – without any need for input from the user.

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