Zerofootprint to Measure Real-Time Energy Usage in Lexus Hybrid Living Center at TED Conference

Zerofootprint to Highlight Best Practices in Measuring and Comparing Carbon Data to Drive Significant Environmental Change

TORONTO – Feb. 9, 2010  – Zerofootprint, leading developer of tools to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of individuals and organizations, today announced that it will provide real-time measurement of the energy use and showcase its TALKINGplug™ solution in the Lexus Hybrid Living Center’s Eco Village at the TED Conference Feb. 9-13 in Long Beach, California.

earth2tech
December 17th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

Copenhagen & Transparency: Carbon Software Makers Watching Closely
By Katie Fehrenbacher

The issue of “transparency” has taken over the Copenhagen climate negotiations. If and how countries will provide verifiable measurements of their emissions reductions is the sticking point of the $100 billion annual fund that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today, and a major fissure between the U.S. and China at the negotiations.

The Globe and Mail
Monday, Dec. 14, 2009 3:53AM EST

While politicians negotiate, executives take action
By: Eric Reguly

Corporate honchos aren’t waiting for treaties and legislation, they’re changing the way they do business to make climate change part of their legacy.

The Bella Center, the size of a big-city airport, is climate change’s ground zero. Some 30,000 participants swarm into the convention buildings every day. The mob includes some of the planet’s brightest scientific, technical, development, economic and political minds, from paleoclimatologists, who can tell you what the weather was like 100,000 years ago, to Chinese negotiators who know as much about U.S. carbon cap-and-trade “architecture” as many U.S. senators.

Treehugger, November 19, 2009
by Jacob Gordon

The CEO of Zerofootprint, Ron Dembo, is a man who has often written and been written about on TreeHugger. Now it looks like this outspoken man is ready to let the world’s power plugs start speaking for themselves. Zerofootprint, his energy and carbon management firm, has broken into the hardware world with TalkingPlugs, a system that includes devices that attach over existing electrical outlets, giving them special powers: namely the ability to wirelessly transmit their energy output and, inversely, to be remotely controlled and programmed. This opens to door to some very cool features.

RFID Journal, Nov 17, 2009
By Mary Catherine O’Connor

The system, developed by a company named Zerofootprint, places passive high-frequency RFID tags into the electric plugs of appliances and other devices.

Nov. 17, 2009—Zerofootprint, a Toronto-based company whose initial product is a software-as-a-service-based enterprise carbon management solution for corporations, has developed an RFID-enabled system for monitoring and managing home electricity usage, called the TalkingPlug. This system is based on an RFID-enabled electrical outlet and plug system that can track energy usage at the device or appliance level.

Ron Dembo, Zerofootprint’s CEO and founder, says his company will make the system available this coming spring.

Trends Updates, November 10, 2009, by Neo

Monitoring your power energy needs and managing the power consumption at your place has becoming a rapidly popular trend across the globe and firms like Google have already released extensive power monitoring systems which serve the purpose.

Networked ‘smart plug’ gets energy info flowing

CNET News, November 9, 2009
by Martin LaMonica

What if you could better control home appliance energy use by making your wall socket more clever?

That’s the idea behind TALKINGplug™ from Toronto-based Zerofootprint, a company that makes software for measuring and monitoring corporate carbon emissions.

TALKINGplug™ is a plug that fits on top of existing electrical outlets. But it’s equipped with componentry to make it a controllable node on a network, including an RFID chip, microprocessor, and wireless networking. The company plans to introduce the product next week.

TORONTO, ONTARIO–( June 4, 2009) – AutoShare announced today that it is launching a program with Zerofootprint to offset its car sharing network’s carbon footprint, estimated to offset over 1,000,000 km of city driving in 2009. In their mandate to reduce carbon emissions and pollutions, AutoShare has integrated offsetting as part of their environmental strategy that already includes offering hybrid vehicles and buying electricity from a renewable energy provider.

Santa Cruz, CA and Toronto, Canada. June 2, 2009.

Greening Point, Inc. signed a value-added reseller agreement with Zerofootprint Software Inc., an organization dedicated to the mass reduction of global environmental impact. As a result of the agreement, Greening Point will be Zerofootprint’s first authorized and trained solutions integrator in the United States. Using the

By Harriet Blake, ABC News

America's urban centers are becoming ever greener, with the National League of Cities holding its first ever Green Cities Conference last month. While many cities have recently taken up environmental causes, some have been carrying the banner for years.

Seattle, home to such earlier innovations as the 60s Space Needle, Microsoft, and grunge rock, is