Celsias

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Celsias ([1]) is an online community that watches and shares the world through carbon footprint comparison and competition. It is a consumer and business company for people to calculate and share their carbon footprint worldwide through a Web experience. On Celsias, people can see first-hand accounts of current carbon volumes, find carbon footprints for their everyday purchases, hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual ways people are reducing their negative effect on the climate. As more people calculate their carbon footprint on the web, Celsias is empowering them to become the saviours of tomorrow. Celsias is a place for people to engage in new ways with personal information by sharing, commenting on, and viewing each others' carbon footprints. Celsias was started as a carbon calculation and sharing service, and is growing into an online carbon-aware destination with people competing globally to switch their purchase behaviour to buying less and buying more energy efficient products/services every day. With Celsias, people can: - Upload, tag and share carbon footprints worldwide - Browse millions of carbon footprints uploaded by community members - Find, join and create carbon groups to connect with people who have similar interests - Customize the experience by buying from others with low footprints, publicising their own reduced footprint, and creating carbon credits - Integrate carbon footprint search results on other websites using text embeds or APIs - Make carbon footprints and tips public or private—users can elect to broadcast their footprint publicly or share them privately with friends and family upon upload.