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by plondon514 2522 days ago
Did you consider the ability for one to offset their carbon footprint on their own? I know there is probably less money involved, but it would be cool if I could determine my footprint and then be given tasks to try to offset it on my own.

EDIT: cool project btw :)

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Oh that's a great point. You can absolutely use our carbon calculator and then find another project to support. We want to make a really good carbon calculator that's useful to everyone, not just Wren subscribers. Let us know if you have ideas or feedback there.
Could you provide an API for the carbon calculator? Or is that relatively easy to build?
Here's the info on how we built it — Landon posted about this a few hours ago:

> We use data + research from Berkeley's cool climate lab (https://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/publications) The main model is maintained by them, and is based on linear regression from a bunch of lifestyle variables that you input into the calculator. Our version is slightly different because we base it on country instead of zip code, so we scale most input variables by the country's per capita emissions to get a good estimate.

Some of the data might be a little tricker to find but most of it is based off of Cool Climate's model + World Bank per capita emissions data. Let us know if we can help with anything here!