The idea: Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to see the carbon emissions of the things around you?
Second Life's carbon goggles do just that. Jim Burbrick's idea is to offer Second Lifers a virtual HUD (that's heads-up display) that would show the carbon emissions of different objects in the virtual world - such as kettles, cars, washing machines and the like.
The HUDs will be available in Second Life from about midnight tonight, depending how the team progresses, but really needs volunteers to go in and 'folksonomise' objects - so assign a description that will allow the Amee carbon emissions database to assign a carbon value to each object. If only we could do this in the real world...
