This
website was established to bring together an overall public list of CO2
content of ordinary items. Previously the information has been in specialized sources
scattered on the web.
The goal is to bring together the most complete list of estimates
for CO2, item-by-item, free on the web, so we will know how to
reduce our daily use of CO2. Tell us any data we
missed.
The site editor is Paul
Burke, a US statistician. He does not have ties to the energy industry, since
his career has been in data analysis, housing, education, and water quality. He
has consulted for the UN Development Program on issues in the environment, development, economics,
poverty, gender, military spending, and education. He has led seminars at University of
California-Berkeley, Columbia University, Venezuela's National Council on Human
Resources, US Census Bureau; and International Labor Statistics Center of the
US Department of Labor. Other projects he has been involved in are at NumbersInstitute.com.
Costs
(and CO2 output) of the website are low, so it takes no outside
money. All sources of information are welcome. In order to grow, the site needs
volunteers to do tasks like the following:
* Create a comparable page or columns in metric units
* Improve design of the web pages
* Take the entire website into a larger environmental
organization
* Improve data on CO2 from solar, wind, nuclear,
hydroelectricity, biofuels
* Identify an effective translation button
* Improve rank on search engines
* Continue finding more CO2 data
Please
send whatever
information you can, as much as possible in the same format used here.
If
you link to this website, please link to CO2List.org,
which will always point to the site, no matter where the site is hosted.