Safety in Numbers

Brighter Planet's blog

Posted by bessie on Wednesday, December 12, 2007.

Short TV piece on Brighter Planet from NECN

What blog is this?

Safety in Numbers is Brighter Planet's blog about climate science, Ruby, Rails, data, transparency, and, well, us.

Who's behind this?

We're Brighter Planet, the world's leading computational sustainability platform.

Who's blogging here?

Patti Prairie CEO

Brighter Planet™

The computational sustainability platform

Home
About
Brighter Planet powers the leading computational sustainability platform, using hard numbers and raw data to reveal actionable opportunities and deliver measurable results to businesses and individuals worldwide
- Overview Our story and vision for the future of sustainability
- Our team Our staff, board of directors, and advisors
- Partners A list of our collaborators
- Press Brighter Planet in the news & resources for the press
Services
Brighter Planet helps clients identify opportunities for data-driven sustainability initiatives, designs programs around these opportunities to deliver business value, and assists with integration and development
- Overview How we work with our clients
- Client case studies How we have helped clients worldwide revolutionize the way they address sustainability
- Imaginations Explorations of concepts in computational sustainability for leading businesses
- Research Our analyses, survey data and best practices advice for corporate sustainability
Technology
The backbone of Brighter Planet is our CM1™ computational sustainability platform, which delivers on-demand carbon and energy impact calculations through a developer-friendly API
- CM1 homepage Technical details and API documentation
- Prototypes Experiments from our staff that demonstrate CM1's capabilities
- App gallery A showcase of Brighter Planet-powered apps created by developers from across the community
- Reference data Our always-current clearinghouse of global climate, geographic, and demographic data
Models
Brighter Planet's technology platform calculates the carbon, energy, and resource impact of a variety of real-life emission sources. Our impact models resiliently adapt to user input, have been third-party certified, and feature expressive, human-oriented APIs.
- Automobile
- Automobile trip
- Bus trip
- Computation
- Diet
- Electricity use
- Flight
- Fuel purchase
- Lodging
- Meeting
- Motorcycle
- Pet
- Purchase
- Rail trip
- Residence
- Shipment