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Virtual Goggles Track Real Carbon Emissions « Earth2Tech

At a recent mash-up challenge in London, Babbage Linden built a tagging system that enables Residents to help create a 3D database of carbon-emitting devices (cars, planes, etc.) that have been recreated in Second Life, and associate them with the footprint of their real world analog.  But what’s the point of associating real-world emissions with virtual objects?  Babbage explains that to me at Earth2Tech, Katie Fehrenbacher's green technology blog I occasionally write for.  Read more about it Babbage's Carbon Goggles at PopTech, and even better, at his own blog, The Creation Engine.