Widget exploration
As you may know, we just released a series of Widgets to help you explore CARMA. We’ve been looking at some of the plants tagged using the Improve Your CARMA widget, and there’s a lot of really interesting results to share. The following are just a few plants that you helped find…
CARMA in Action: Interfaith Forum on Wise Country Power Plant
One role of CARMA is to provide information on plant and firm-level CO2 emissions to local activists trying to block new coal fired powerplants. I am involved in one such effort in Northern Virginia, where a group with the wonderful name Interfaith Power and Light (GWIPLE) is working to organize religious organizations to combat climate change.
CARMA and CGD research in the wild
The Confronting Climate Change team at CGD is always interested to see what happens to our work once it leaves our desktops and joins the “marketplace of ideas,” fighting to make it to the top of a mountain of information on environmental issues. So we thought we’d quickly share two recent sightings from two very different corners of the internet.
CARMA a Webby Award Official Honoree!
We’re pleased to announce that CARMA.org was selected as an Official Honoree of the 2008 Webby Awards. From over 10,000 entries, only 15% were selected as Official Honorees. We feel like we’re in pretty good company! Kudos and thanks to the CARMA Team at the Center for Global Development and Forum One Communications. And thanks to you, the users, for helping make CARMA a success. More to come…
CARMA Needs Your Help
As reported in an earlier post, we are releasing a widget entitled “Improve Your CARMA” that allows users to submit information back to the CARMA site. We are all very proud of the data CARMA provides to users, but we believe that through a collective effort, our power plant data could become much richer. This new widget allows our CARMA friends to collaborate with us by submitting better mapping coordinates, providing images to our Flickr account, and adding feedback about these power plants.
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Welcome to CARMA
The objective of CARMA.org is to arm individuals with the information they need to forge a cleaner, low-carbon future. By revealing the unvarnished truth regarding both clean and dirty power producers, CARMA hopes to influence the opinions and decisions of consumers, investors, shareholders, managers, workers, activists, and policymakers. In other contexts, so-called “public information disclosure” techniques have proven successful in reducing traditional pollutants.
