Sourcemap: Mapping Your Carbon Footprint

"It’s a great tool to demonstrate to our clients the care that we take in sourcing,’’ said the owner a pair of Cambridge restaurants. He was commenting in today’s Boston Globe article on Sourcemap.com, an alumnus-founded software company that combines “mapping software with carbon footprint information to help people track the carbon used to produce the things they eat, use, and wear.”

Founder Leonard Bonanni MA ’03, SM ’05, PhD ’10, who created Sourcemap as his PhD thesis, is moving from a .org address to a .com address to emphasize business opportunities that include new social media facets and advanced options for paying customers.

New features, available in the free version as well, include new map types, visualization of impact along a supply chain, and the ability to add multimedia. Read the Boston Globe article and the Sourcemap blog for more.

Just for fun, look at sample maps such as the sources for an IKEA bed and the iPhone 4. Slice of MIT first covered Sourcemap back in 2009 when the project was in beta. Read the older post for a bit of history.