{"id":552,"date":"2012-12-11T00:27:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T08:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=552"},"modified":"2015-11-06T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:15:54","slug":"carbon-at-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Carbon at scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the making the intangible tangible dept.  Some nice work from <a href=\"http:\/\/carbonvisuals.com\">CarbonVisuals<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not usually that excited about 3D geo rendering stuff, but this is elegant, simple, and compelling. <\/p>\n<p>A single hour of NYC carbon emissions:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carbonquilt\/8112404383\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NYCCarbon.png\" alt=\"NYCCarbon\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-803\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NYCCarbon.png 600w, http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NYCCarbon-150x84.png 150w, http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NYCCarbon-450x253.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Carbon emissions associated with NYC public buildings:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/carbonvisuals.com\/work\/the-carbon-canyons-of-new-york\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/carbonvisuals.com\/media\/item\/351\/311\/960px-2011-BrooklynBridgeView1280x720px-480.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a> broken link :-(<\/p>\n<p>I think I need this one attached to my car keys. One Gallon of Gas:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/carbonvisuals.com\/work\/usa-specific-image-set\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ref-OneGallonPetrol.png\" alt=\"Ref-OneGallonPetrol\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-801\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ref-OneGallonPetrol.png 600w, http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ref-OneGallonPetrol-150x84.png 150w, http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ref-OneGallonPetrol-450x253.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From the methodology document:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTake a typical room 20 feet x 20 feet x 9 feet. Only 400 parts per million of the air in the room is carbon dioxide, which doesn&#8217;t sound like a lot. However, that is nearly 11 US gallons of carbon dioxide, which sounds a lot more significant. 3.2 US gallons of that came from burning fossil fuels. If you show people that <strong>in every small room there is 3 US gallons of greenhouse gas that we have put there<\/strong> if begins to seem like a big deal.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking maybe I should label three empty milk jugs and leave &#8217;em in my living room to trip over, just so I don&#8217;t forget.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2012\/11\/carbonvisuals_making_carbon_dioxide_emissions_statistics_more_graspable.htmlhttp:\/\/\">infosthetics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the making the intangible tangible dept. Some nice work from CarbonVisuals. I&#8217;m not usually that excited about 3D geo rendering stuff, but this is elegant, simple, and compelling. A single hour of NYC carbon emissions: Carbon emissions associated with NYC public buildings: broken link :-( I think I need this one attached to my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/?p=552\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carbon at scale<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skyeome.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}