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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Zapico, Jorge Luis"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Carbon.to: improving the understanding of carbon dioxide information
    (Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, 2010) Zapico, Jorge Luis; Kjelkerud, David; Berggren, Henrik; Turpeinen, Marco; Brandt, Niles
    Individuals are now often presented with information about greenhouse gases in their everyday life. However there seems to be a gap between this increase in the exposure to carbon dioxide information and the understanding of how to interpret it, making behavioral change difficult. This article presents examples of how different applications have dealt with this problem by representing the carbon dioxide information in different ways. Based on the existing examples, an application called carbon.to was developed and released. This service tries to improve the understanding of carbon dioxide information by simulation in a playful way. Feedback from the users points towards that the gap in understanding existed and that carbon.to was successful in helping closing it.
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    Footprinted.org: experiences from using linked open data for environmental impact information
    (Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information, 2011) Zapico, Jorge Luis; Sayan, Bianca; Bonanni, Leonardo; Turpeinen, Marko; Young, Steve
    Sustainability science relies heavily on information (Allenby 2000, 2006). And as sustainability is gaining weight in decision-making, good and accessible environmental information is needed (Goleman 2009). This is true both at an institutional level, like when deciding the materials for building a product, and at a personal level, deciding between chicken and salmon at the supermarket. However, most of the environmental information is closed, based on proprietary software, expensive or in text documents that are not possible to process. We believe that it is necessary to bring open data concepts from the web to environmental impact information (Davis et al, 2010; Zapico et al, 2010). This would increase transparency, openness, and make it easier to create sustainability services on top of the data. Exploring these ideas we have created Footprinted1, a web service that is trying to solve these problems by opening up the information using linked data, focusing in life cycle assessment information. This article presents the finished application, the experiences developing it, and the first usages.
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    Greenalytics: a tool for marsh-up life cycle assessment of websites
    (Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, 2010) Zapico, Jorge Luis; Turpeinen, Marko; Brandt, Nils
    The environmental impact of internet is growing, reaching an estimated 1.4% of world greenhouse emissions. This impact is hidden for both users and developers. Understanding and analyzing the environmental footprint of a website is not an easy task. The impacts are distributed through multiple hardware networks and a global user base making the individual impacts difficult to allocate. This article presents the development of a functional application for generating automatic life cycle assessments for web sites based on mashing-up information. This application has the aim of making the impact of websites visible, allowing the instant analysis of their carbon footprint using existing analytics data and presenting it in an understandable and transparent way. The development process is presented with detailed information about how the calculations are performed. The results are discussed around two different cases, focusing on the challenges of calculating the server side impact and the possibilities for improvement.