Open Carbon World
I’m still happy with my current blog title, Open Serendipity, because it sums up the feeling I get when I find a site like Open Carbon World. I’m looking forward to studying the site, though I quickly concluded that I need not attempt to read the fire hose volume of news that shows up by the second on their front page news feed, and yes, they do have a My News page that I can customize instead, yay! Plus I am eager to explore it from the point of view of a community: is it really interactive? where are the conversations? what are they talking about? are they just talking or are they working and producing …what? cool solutions to climate change challenges and opportunities? Hope so.
Besides looking at it as a community, I’m also interested in the personal educational opportunity. It looks like some of my questions about carbon might be answered here in enough detail to satisfy me without being so much that my eyes cross and I change my mind about wanting to learn. Just selecting from the 4×5 grid of acronyms in the My News section was an education in itself. And I wonder if content migrates from the ocw wiki to the carbon library after it is vetted by their editorial board. Hope so, that would be very cool.
I found Open Carbon World via the company that creates it, Misys, which I found via the AMEE affiliates page. It was rather circuitous, though, to get from AMEE to OpenCarbonWorld.com. I clicked first on Misys, but saw nothing about energy or carbon there. (If you search for carbon you will find a mention of OCW in the Recent News in the bottom right corner, but I did not see that.) But I did see a nav bar item for Open Source Solutions. Turns out Misys has ventured into the world of open source in two domains: healthcare (cool!) and carbon. Again, no direct link, even from the Recent News press releases which talk about Open Carbon World but leave the url as an exercise for the interested reader.
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