Tvergastein Issue #16: Alternative Futures

Page 64

Chasing Carbon: The Story of CarbonGraph by Sam Anderson

The world needs to reach carbon neutrality, but the carbon footprint of most consumer products remains unknown. CarbonGraph is a new digital platform that measures the carbon footprint of products and their supply chains.

The world is at a tipping point The curtain is closing on humanity’s chances of avoiding significant glo-

bal impacts due to our greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC 2018). For many environmental experts, the climate disas-

ter is an inevitability that most people have yet to realise is already happening.

Yet, I believe that humanity will mount

a collective response to the threat of environmental destruction. We won’t

avoid widespread ecosystem loss, human tragedy and economic turmoil, but

we will ultimately weather the storm and emerge with systems that allow

us to better protect the natural world and its most vulnerable populations. I was born in 1995, so I have never lived in

a world without the scientific consensus that human greenhouse gas emissions

would lead to the widespread destabiliImage credit: CarbonGraph, www.carbongraph.io.

sation of natural systems within our lifetimes. It took until 2015, when the Paris

Agreement was signed, for decisive action on climate to become the governmental norm. It took until 2018 for me to reali-

se I had a moral obligation as an engineer, 62


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Creativity, Urban Margins, and Global Transition: The Case of Occupy Leipzig

22min
pages 123-136

Sponsors

3min
pages 150-152

Editorial Board

3min
page 149

Of Many Worlds in Resistance, and Why Roger Hallam is Dead Wrong

21min
pages 137-148

The Vanguard of Climate Ethics: Seeking a Livable Future in an Age of Accelerating Change

17min
pages 108-117

¿Qué significa liberar a la Madre Tierra en las ciudades? Una mirada al proceso de Liberación de la Madre Tierra desde la perspectiva de un huertero urbano en Cali

7min
pages 118-122

Arrival of the Ferns

1min
pages 103-107

Climate CHALLENGE

13min
pages 96-102

Living in Nature

1min
page 95

What Makes a Transformation – The German Hydrogen Economy as an Example of Radical Change to Business as Usual

18min
pages 82-94

Alternative Futures in the Past: Dutch Discourses around Natural Gas in the 1960s

19min
pages 71-81

Rethinking Democracy: a Response to Julia Cagé

9min
pages 38-43

Degrowth's Discursive Struggle for Utopia

23min
pages 44-58

Chasing Carbon: The Story of CarbonGraph

9min
pages 64-70

Can We (De)Grow Meat? Bringing Alternative Protein in Dialogue with Degrowth

23min
pages 25-37

Inescapable Path Dependency and Unbreakable Barriers: The Overpowering Presence of Capitalism in Sustainability Transformation

20min
pages 12-24

Contributors

4min
pages 10-11

A Word from the Editors

4min
pages 6-9

Landscape Discovery

1min
pages 59-63
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