We've blogged about the importance of energy visualisation a few times before. The Carbon Quilt is a wonderful tool for visualising that most amorphous of intangible, invisible, ungraspable things - CO2 emissions.
The video above explains how it works. In their own words, it "brings the abstract concept of a ‘carbon footprint’ to life." The Quilt works on all scales - you can see the carbon footprint of a whole continent or a single light bulb or a car journey...
Rather excitingly, the visualisation below is how much CO2 the Green Thing community has saved so far. It's shown as a quilt covering the whole world(510.4m km2) at a thickness (or rather thinness) of 11.5 nanometres. (See it online here).
The Carbon Quilt software is one of the cleverest online tools to tackle CO2 visualisation we've seen so far. We hope it's used extensively by politicians at the Copenhagen summit this December.
Our hats are well and truly off to Green Thing advisor and founder of CarbonSense Antony Turner and Ravi Kapur and Adam Nieman of GovEd Communications.
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