how to be a green geek

How to be a “green” GeekCristianoBetta.com - BarcampLondon4

It’s not easy being greenIngredients: super soldier serum, anger, and a touch of pepper

An inconvenient truthPolar bears will be extinct by 2050

George W Bush“Some” countries didn’t sign the Kyoto protocol

geeKyoto 2008Fixing a broken world

Green building blocksEven small things can help

How to do our own Kyoto?

All the technology is here!

1 - Awareness

Create AwarenessWattson by DIY Kyoto (diykyoto.com)

Track AwarenessCarbon Diet (carbondiet.org)

Share awarenessDo The Green Thing (dothegreenthing.com)

2 - DIY

Calculate your impactAvoiding Mass Extinctions Engine (amee.cc)

3 - Keep it local

Forget your carBus about 3 times more efficient. Train even better.

Buy LocalMost food travels ~2500km to reach your plate

Stop the cow Methane 21x more harmful than CO2(http://earthsave.org/globalwarming.htm)

It takes food to make meatEating 1lb of meat = driving a Hummer for 40mi

Use local energy productionSolar panels now reaching 40% efficiency

Standardize chargingUSB Cell batteries (usbcell.com)

Conclusions

Conclusions

We broke the world

Conclusions

We broke the world

Governments won’t fix it quick enough

Conclusions

We broke the world

Governments won’t fix it quick enough

Let’s fix it the geek way

Conclusions

We broke the world

Governments won’t fix it quick enough

Let’s fix it the geek way

The technology is already there

Conclusions

We broke the world

Governments won’t fix it quick enough

Let’s fix it the geek way

The technology is already there

Need to change people’s habbits

Conclusions

Conclusions

Awareness

Conclusions

Awareness

Information

Conclusions

Awareness

Information

Start local

Questions?