How to be a “green” Geek
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It’s not easy being green
Ingredients: super soldier serum, anger, and a
touch of pepper

An inconvenient truth
Polar bears will be extinct by 2050

George W Bush
“Some” countries didn’t sign the Kyoto protocol

geeKyoto 2008
Fixing a broken world

Green building blocks
Even small things can help

How to do our own Kyoto?

All the technology is here!

1 - Awareness

Create Awareness
Wattson by DIY Kyoto (diykyoto.com)

Track Awareness
Carbon Diet (carbondiet.org)

Share awareness
Do The Green Thing (dothegreenthing.com)

2 - DIY

Calculate your impact
Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine (amee.cc)

3 - Keep it local

Forget your car
Bus about 3 times more efficient. Train even
better.

Buy Local
Most food travels ~2500km to reach your plate

Stop the cow
Methane 21x more harmful than CO2
(http://earthsave.org/globalwarming.htm)

It takes food to make meat
Eating 1lb of meat = driving a Hummer for 40mi

Use local energy production
Solar panels now reaching 40% efficiency

Standardize charging
USB Cell batteries (usbcell.com)

Conclusions

Conclusions
We broke the world

Conclusions
We broke the world
Governments won’t fix it quick enough

Conclusions
We broke the world
Governments won’t fix it quick enough
Let’s fix it the geek way

Conclusions
We broke the world
Governments won’t fix it quick enough
Let’s fix it the geek way
The technology is already there

Conclusions
We broke the world
Governments won’t fix it quick enough
Let’s fix it the geek way
The technology is already there
Need to change people’s habbits

Conclusions

Conclusions
Awareness

Conclusions
Awareness
Information

Conclusions
Awareness
Information
Start local

Questions?