Tag Archives: 2012

Winner: Transparency Prize

The judges say:

Company Carbon Deathmap hits two audiences: it’s provocative and could be used to apply pressure to industries, equally it helps bring visibility of risk to mainstream investors.

Description

The FTSE 100 group of companies are valued by the market based on expectations about their future earning potential. But the huge assets of fossil fuels owned and used by the companies pose a systemic risk their earning potential. Given that future emissions of carbon dioxide are highly constrained if we are to avoid climate change, companies sitting on large stocks of carbon are likely to see the value of these commodities reduce as they become increasingly difficult to use…

…so how does the current valuation of companies change if we take this into account?

Team

• Branden Faulls
• Will Usher
• Bojana Bajzelj
• Andrew Hill

Winner: Built Environment Prize

The judges say:

We liked the addition of user-generated content in to data in this project, adding personal comfort data could extend to applications like FourSquare, and make environmental information less boring.

Description

Building energy efficiency statistics, with user satisfaction and mapping for visualisation.

Team

• Tia Kansara
• Garry Hill
• Adam Nieman

Winner: Behaviour Change Prize

The judges say:

We believe over 80% of the sustainability field currently use spreadsheets. As a process, this is broken, not scalable and inaccurate. AMEE in Excel Integrates spreadsheets with web-services, to create a behaviour change that could address this issue and bring more credibility to the market.

Links

https://github.com/mrdavidlaing/AMEEInExcel
https://github.com/cityindex/CIAPI.CS/tree/master/src/AMEE
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Description

AMEE In Excel is an Excel 2010 addin that tightly integrates AMEE data & calculations into Excel.

Team

• David Laing

Winner: Innovation Prize

The judges say:

We had only one word to describe this innovation: Awesome.

Links

MQTT Kindlet

Description

Making use of an energy-efficient, lightweight, portable, and highly “”glanceable”” device – the e-Ink Amazon Kindle – to connect to energy data delivered over the lightweight MQTT protocol.

The app requires the Kindle to be “jailbroken”, and uses data publically available from bmreports and the realtime carbon site powered by AMEE, via test.mosquitto.org

The idea is to generate dashboard images to use as screensavers on the Kindle when it is “sleeping”.

Team

• Alex Hutter
• Andy Piper

Winner: Best Hack and Peoplefund.it Prize

The judges say:

Mastodon looks to the future of distributed computing, and is a great example of web-meets-cleantech.

Links

http://www.mastodonc.com/

Description

Don’t let your cloud computing become hairy, lumbering, and extinct. Use Mastodon C to select the most efficient and sustainable location for your job. Continually calculated and updated, to give you the confidence that your data crunching won’t destroy the planet.

The financial cost and carbon cost depends on:

• Live costs from cloud providers right now
• Current energy mix at each location
• Current temperature at each location (low temperature means less cooling needed, so less energy used per operation)

Team

• Bruce Durling
• Francine Bennett
• Jane Dickson