Ben Engebreth - Personal Kyoto
project link: http://www.personal-kyoto.org/
Personal Kyoto provides New Yorkers the means to measure, track and share their progress towards meaningful electric use reduction.
By analyzing your ConEd electric usage information, we can calculate a Personal Kyoto Goal for you that represents the amount you need to reduce your electric use to to achieve something like what the Kyoto Protocol would require of you. This calculation is based on how residential electric use has grown in the US since 1990 — the year upon which the Kyoto Protocol is based. Assuming that your electric use has increased at the same rate as the average American, we can calculate a target usage goal that would effectively make you Kyoto Protocol compliant (at least for electric usage — a big component of New Yorkers' energy consumption). There are many ways to reduce your electric use, but there's not really a good way to monitor your progress and that's what Personal Kyoto provides.
Personal Kyoto is a tool developed in the Openlab at Eyebeam (a non-profit Art & Technology center in New York City) by Ben Engebreth
artist bio
Ben Engebreth worked on trajectory optimization for spacecraft at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech. Before JPL, Ben received a masters of science in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado. Ben has recently begun applying his programming and data analysis skills to the development of socially beneficial web projects at Eyebeam in NYC including the carpool site Pooln and Housing Tracker.