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The issue of global warming is a throbbing theme in environmental discussions around the world, and governments, businesses and universities have invested significant resources in finding effective solutions to contain the volume of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Even in this scenario, where the major economic players predominate, it is already agreed that effective solutions are not only introduced by new "clean" energy generation technologies, since their high cost makes most of them solar and wind, emphatically) unviable for most of the global economies. In the more enlightened forums that debate the subject - among them the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference (BECC) - that this year will be held in Sacramento, California, a new approach to the issue of global warming has already been developed; an approach that addresses the behavior of people as consumers of energy and the environmental impact that the goods they consume entail the planet.
Based on this perspective, Evolva Projetos, a company incubated at PUC / RS, develops projects and technologies to promote behavior change on complex issues, and global warming is the focus of its HomeCarbon Project. The HomeCarbon project is the first project in the world to combine the web interface with graphical tools, so that people can individually estimate the impact they individually
cause the planet, and as a result they can immediately take compensatory measures.
