March 7, 2008 – 11:18 pm, by Matt Biddulph

Dopplr at ETech: announcing carbon calculations with AMEE

On Thursday at ETech, Gavin Starks announced that Dopplr is teaming up with AMEE to help you measure your travel carbon footprint.

We’re still putting the finishing touches on this feature, but we’re previewing it with alpha-testers this week and it’ll be launching soon. Measurement is just the first step along this road, and we’ll be working with AMEE to make sure you have pointers to the information you need to understand and act on this data.

Here’s a screenshot to be going on with:

in Dopplr Updates, General Announcements |

17 Responses to “Dopplr at ETech: announcing carbon calculations with AMEE”

  1. 1 Arctic Startup » Dopplr teams up with AMEE to calculate carbons - March 8th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    […] and they provide a neutral, open platform for measuring the “Carbon-Footprint” of anything. Dopplr states on their blog that they are still putting finishing touches on the feature, but will be releasing it soon to the […]


  2. 2 Björn J - March 8th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    Love the feature! But it assumes that all travel is by flight, which is not necessarily the case. Some sort of check box for train travel perhaps?


  3. 3 Matt Biddulph - March 8th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    Björn J,

    Quite right. The ability to specify your mode of travel is one of the “finishing touches” we’re working on before we launch this feature.


  4. 4 Mark Peacock - March 8th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    Interesting and timely feature — we’ve been discussing how to fly “greener” on the last two episodes of the TravelCommons podcast. In our last episode, we discussed how fliers can reduce the carbon footprints of their trips by choosing flights that use more efficient planes (e.g., a Southwest 737-800 rather than an old Northwest DC-9) and/or fly into less congested airports (e.g., Ontario instead of LAX; Chicago Midway instead of O’Hare).

    I wouldn’t expect this feature to take into account these sorts of strategies, but it would be good to explicit state the assumptions made in the carbon footprint calculations.


  5. 5 Carbon! :: Powery.net - March 8th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    […] to work out his carbon footprint. It appears that now Dopplr are teaming up with AMEE to do just that. I reckon this might increase the uptake of Dopplr account where I work at […]


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  7. 7 Edwin Aoki - March 9th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    This is a great feature. I’d like to know my carbon footprint, but I’m also a little apprehensive given the travel I do. To Mark’s point, above, it would be great if Dopplr would include on this screen links to suggestions as to how to reduce one’s footprint as one travel’s around the world.


  8. 8 Lola LB - March 10th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Cute. But I don’t think this is really going to change anything.


  9. 9 TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Dopplr to calculate carbon - March 10th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    […] with your social or business network thus effectively reducing travel - is now allowing members to calculate their carbon emissions as they traverse the planet. Dopplr is teaming up with AMEE for the feature, […]


  10. 10 Marco Mustapic - March 11th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    Great idea!
    Add a checkbox or something similar for trips that have carbon offseting, like Easyjet.


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  12. 12 james emmans - March 16th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    The carbon footprint calculation results is a good idea - it is not just political correctness - it is a scientific fact. The excellent London transport website http://www.tfl.com also give the cardon footprint results for a calculated route - you have a choice of vehicles which give different results.


  13. 13 Lower (Carbon) Footprint » Dopplr and BA adding Carbon Footprint info - March 18th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    […] so you can meetup. Via Ian Forrester’s blog this morning I saw that Dopplr are making your travel-related carbon footprint information […]


  14. 14 Mic Edwards - March 19th, 2008 at 11:01 am

    @Lola LB

    A lack of awareness of the impact of travel is a big part of the problem.

    Some people are going to change their plans on the basis of this knowledge, and that is an excellent reason to implement it!


  15. 15 Jamie Thingelstad - March 23rd, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    Looking forward to seeing this feature on the site! Something I’ve always wanted to know with more detail.


  16. 16 wpomatic test » Dopplr and BA adding Carbon Footprint info - April 14th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

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  17. 17 David Helgason - April 21st, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    A plan forms itself, as simple as 1-2-3:

    1) Consider partnering with TripIt.com or implementing similar functionality for a super-easy way to register one’s travels.

    2) Use this additional information to calculate carbon-footprints.

    3) Partner with Carbonfund.org to allow us to “pay off” our generated carbon footprints… another revenue source, and cooler than the hotel ads (idea from my brother, Ingvar Helgason).

    d.

    PS. The CAPTCHA I had to enter when posting this to prove that I was a human being, was “not Jerusalem”… I think I agree.


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