Is it really a mobile world? and can it be green?

This year I have planned two research related challenges, just to test personally some of my research questions.

The first one is to be able to go completely mobile for all my work & leisure activities. From sending emails, blogging (I’m writing this from my mobile), editing papers…Why mobile? I have the opinion that mobiles are key for sustainability. Not only  they have a small carbon footprint (around 25kg per subscriber and year), but they are the most widely lCT product in the world, ever, 60% of the world population owns one.

My second challenge for this year is to be able to track my exact carbon footprint using ICT tools. Here I’m talking about real accuracy, not your typical web calculator, a number that can give me feedback about my behavioral changes.  One example of this is my Dopplr carbon profile whit the greenhouse gases emissions of all my travelling. Then I have to find out good ways to monitor emissions from the apartment, office, commuting, food, consumption. Let’s see, it’s gonna be scary.

During this year I’ll blog here about my experiences and results around this two personal challenges and the application to my research.