During the winter developer’s conference at Senacor Technologies AG in Nuremberg, they presented a nice little tool to measure and offset carbon dioxide emissions during business travel.
The tool is called Vagabundo and is realized using a serverless framework; it collects data from all business travels, calculates CO2 emissions and offsets them through Atmosfair – great approach at using technology to protect our climate!
It’s currently an in-house project, but Senacor seemed amiable to open-source it.
Much more than the offsetting part, I like the reporting – how much CO2 do I emit during travel and how could I optimize it?
Taking this a step further, I could see creating internal (team) competitions – who’s the best at having video conferences instead of in-person meetings? Who’s able to reduce air travel the most?
I think, there’re endless possibilities – anybody as interested as I am?
