This week’s delve into the recent history of Goldsmiths Computing looks at GreenInsight, a tool developed in 2010 from research by Goldsmiths’ Mark Bishop and Sebastian Danicic.
GreenInsight quickly provides the information required to either match the products that you purchase at item level, or to classify those items that could not be matched to a sufficient level of detail to calculate the carbon footprint.
This is then combined with the publicly verified information for products and industries to build up an organisations environmental impact from the bottom up. GreenInsight enables customers to:
- view the cost to the environment as items are purchased, and the carbon footprint of items purchased
- evaluate their organisation’s spend and calculate the environmental cost of the spend in considerable detail, to product line level.