William Lachance ([info]wlach) wrote,
@ 2007-05-31 23:24:00
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Entry tags:advogato, climate change

Citing your sources
After hearing about Zero Footprint several times in the press (they've inked deals with both Air Canada and the city of Toronto), I decided to check out their site the other day. After considerable digging, I could find absolutely no documentation on the economic or scientific model they were using for calculating an individual's carbon footprint. A message to info@zerofootprint.net has received no response (so far). Am I the only one who sees a serious problem here? How can anyone have confidence in their projections? Because they have a scientific advisory board with big names on it? For all we know, they're just making their numbers up.




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[info]glowingwhispers
2007-09-29 06:33 pm UTC (link)
The footprint idea was first presented by two Vancouver-based social scientists. Given that Canada has a tendency to favour native concepts, the concept seems like it was unduly pushed in Canadian universities beginning in the mid-1990s.

Like "mental illness" though, it seems the general population has difficulty distinguishing between metaphors and physical effects.

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