Developing plans for Carbon Footprint
John Ackers
Thanks for your email and sorry it's taken two weeks to write this reply.
On 31 Jul, 19:14, jroh...@up-to-date.ch wrote:
> John,
>
> I have installed the newest incarnation of Carbon footprint module on my
> test installation. You certainly have improved the user friendlyness of
> this module since I used it for the last time. Well done!
Thanks. But I apologise for making little progress on this in recent
months.
>
> Before I add the conversion factors for renewable and non-renawable energy
> to the table of carbon sources, could you please let me know whether you
> intend to do some further developments for this module within the next
> weeks or months.
Based on my experience with users in the Islington CRAG, entering meter
readings is not intuitive. But your suggestions of editing and cloning
were good. Other new software packages (written in Ruby on Rails) :
carbon diet and thecarbonaccount have explicit meter reading handling
which I think I need to add. So I am planing to rework this area.
Probably sometime in the next month.
Before you make up new carbon sources (and sorry that I haven't use your
spreadsheet yet), it would be really useful to me if you added new lines
to the carbon_source.inc file (which I will commit to CVS or you can
commit to CVS) rather than adding them manually. That way a drupal
admin could install and select all the carbon sources for Switzerland
using some arbitrary model name. I want to do this for US sources. But
if you don't want to do that, that's fine.
>There are still some "nice-to-haves" in the issue tracker
> at drupal.org.
I know. The instant 'calculation unit' still needs more work (using
JSON). Making comparisons with individuals from other countries and
national averages is still to be done and do the rest of the items on
the list.
>
> Additional question: Have you or someone else written a manual for the
> "average user" about how to use this module (e.g. about the concept of
> carbon emissions, carbon stamps, carbon footprints)?
No, nobody has written anything. And I haven't sought something to be
written.
>
> Thank you very much in advance and best regards
>
> Juerg
>
> http://timeforchange.org
I am going to be at Climate Camp for some of next week and so will not
be replying to emails until next Monday possibly.
John
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