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I'm building a site for a local Transition towns group (Transition towns is an initiative about encouraging people to positively reduce their energy use in the face of the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil - see http://transitiontowns.org for more information).

Essentially its an area fo growing interest, and one where I think Drupal could be extremely useful as an online community building platform.

Also based in the UK is AMEE, the Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine, which is a clever tool for enabling individuals and groups to monitor and change their carbon emissions. See http://blog.co2.dgen.net/ for the details on that.

What i'd like is to see Drupal and AMEE able to work together, presumably via an AMEE module? I'm not a developer (I'm still working on that) but I am a site builder using Drupal for numerous sites.

Is anyone interested in this as a project? Or maybe you can see a simple way whereby the AMEE can be integrated into a Drupal site?

Regards
Graham

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x

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jim kirkpatrick’s picture

jim kirkpatrick commented

I've contacted you separately, but just wanted to say publicly that I would like to help out in whatever way I can.

It'd be great to be able to add a carbon calculator module to Drupal sites, ideally storing details against user or email address to allow retrieval and updates. I work with two organisations who would love to use a similar module.

Cheers,

Jim

Drupal consultant & senior developer - http://www.i-jk.co.uk/

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summit commented

Hi,

I just launched a drupal 6 site about geothermical energie (www.geothermische-energie.nl ). I would love to follow a geothermical project on this site. You guys have any clues how to do this.
Can you place a link to www.geothermische-energie.nl to your site.

There is energy enough, only we do not use the right energy!!

Greetings,
Martijn

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dbassendine commented

Hi Graham,

I'm glad I caught this thread. In CRAGs (http://www.carbonrationing.org.uk) we've been doing a carbon monitoring pilot in local community groups for two years. We've drawn up plans and specifications to upgrade The Carbon Account (http://www.thecarbonaccount.com/) - a personal carbon monitoring tool based on AMEE - to make it suitable for community groups and integrate it into Drupal. We applied for funding for this as part of a bid to the Big Green Challenge (http://www.biggreenchallenge.org.uk/), reaching the final twenty of 350 applications, but unfortunately not the final ten that won. We're continuing to work on this, and have some promising options, so with luck we'll see a Carbon Account module sometime soon.

Any suggestions I can forward on and include in bids would be gratefully received. Whilst initially developed privately by Torchbox (http://www.torchbox.com/) The Carbon Account is a now an open source project with a bug tracking and feature request system at http://code.thecarbonaccount.com/trac/. It's not very busy and a bit jammed up with spam. And I haven't posted up any roadmap yet. But I'd like to get a community going around that, so we could make progress without being dependent on funding. So any and all contributions (code or otherwise) in that space very welcome. It's in python.

We could start a module project page, too. I'd especially like to integrate The Carbon Account into personal profile pages and organic groups.

What do you guys think about all this?

dbassendine’s picture

dbassendine commented

We're all go at The Carbon Account trac system, spam free, so please feel free to post up any ideas or issues there. All best, David.