Monday, January 26, 2009

Climate Change Moving Quick ad Heavy, & a Cool Tool to make real actionable assessments

climate change moving faster and more irreversible then previously expected. the oceans are absorbing CO2 and heat that will be released for the next thousand years, change must happen in next decade, or two. 
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99888903

Cool Tool For personal Accurate Assessments: and it is a wiki so you can improve its assessments for areas that have not been previously assessed. The city of Berkeley cold contract with Wattz On, to have a Berkeley page and forum that would aggregate the information of all the residents that use the site and to share ideas, especially local businesses that have smaller carbon footprints.  Local businesses coul load their stats on to the site for accurate, cites assesments, and berkeley citizens could then select choose to shop at these businesses and have them as part of their personal wattz on assesment.
http://www.wattzon.com/about#whatiswattzon

Asa Dodsworth
Berkeley ZWC Comissioner and Citizen

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