Technology, Tools & Resources

Jorge Zapico, PhD Student at the Centre for Sustainable Communications, presents tools that help us to understand carbon dioxide information. How much is a kg of CO2? With carbon.to you can compare beef with tomatoes, flight hours with car trips or tv sets with fridges. He stresses the point that We need to make carbon dioxide information usable at the very moment of decision.

Watch the seminar on Vimeo! Follow the slideshow presented at the seminar at Slideshare!

Picture from the seminar "A low-carbon lifestyle through ICT" at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

How inexpensive is it to have your car become a wifi "hotspot", find out here!  Is it safe?

 This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24,000 metered parking spaces in the nation’s most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which of the spaces are free at any moment.Drivers will be alerted to empty parking places either by displays on street signs, or by looking at maps on screens of their smartphones. They may even be able to pay for parking by cellphone, and add to the parking meter from their phones without returning to the car. Read On.

Oyster Cards are used as payment on buses, Tube, tram and Docklands Light Railway in and around London. Due to a computer fault, the cards have malfunctioned for many users.  Learn about the glitch!