Learning and the Carbon Footrpint
David Wiley brought up the idea of an "EduCarbon" footprint back in June. Its an interesting view to think about an educator's ration of use to reuse of content but I think in the post's comments, that Jason Priem takes it an useful direction in terms of thinking about the amount of "closed" content (content locked tight by copyright for example) versus the amount of "open" content that is used...so maybe more like trying to get rid of Trans Fats (that would be closed content)...I can totally see some kind of edu-labeling system like the nutrition block.
To come back to the underlying idea though of real, carbon footprints...I'd like to start seeing a lot of those conferences that we all go to, start labeling their carbon footprints and stating in clear terms, what kind of carbon offsets they might be undertaking. Great article on carbon footprints here at Treehugger.
