Stainless Planet

Looking for a handy solution to measure your carbon footprint? Look no further, Edenbee might the first step in your action plan to tackle climate change.

Basically, Edenbee will help you reduce your carbon footprint by keeping track of your energy consumption and setting goals to help you reduce it. Your footprint calculation is based on your gas, fuel and electricity readings as well as your different car mileage readings and your plane trips. You also have the possibility to set reminders to take readings at fixed intervals (daily, weekly, monthly). Edenbee will then generate a graph of your monthly carbon use (tonnes per month) and update your yearly carbon footprint (tonnes per year).

But Edenbee also present all the features from any common social network, which means that you have the ability to interact with other people on the website. You can edit your profile, write on other members shoutbox, and discuss in groups. The most interesting feature is the possibility to set goals and share them with the members. You can create new one or try to complete goals from the other members. For instance, I decided that I wanted to make my own compost and use energy saving bulbs. They even propose you to answer a few questions to establish your lifestyle profile and help you define your goals. The number of goals completed is then added under the carbon logbook graph.

The service is still in Beeta (yay, Beeta), but it’s already very complete and engaging. I think they have done a very good job. For the moment, I regret not being able to see all the goals I subscribed to on a single page and there’s still no help section (but they seem to be working on it). I would also love if they could import my carbon profile from Dopplr, as the calculation is much more accurate when it comes to travelling.

Their blog (the Edenblog) is also worth reading, it’s a very interesting blog about the environment.