March222010

Sourcemap: Where things come from and what they are made of

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Want to know where your laptop really comes from? It's nearly impossible to really know, but Sourcemap was developed to help provide you with the information you need in making sustainable choices about popular products, travel and food.

Below is a Sourcemap that shows the complex supply chain of the typical laptop:

Sourcemap laptop supply chain

Sourcemaps is a free and open-source project and anyone can create a sourcemap for travel, food and the lifecycle or traceability of products. Leo Bonanni founded Sourcemap, at MIT Media Labs, with the goal of empowering sustainability by providing transparency in supply chains, supporting sustainable business decisions, helping to facilitate the development of sustainable design, supporting local and sustainable purchasing, and becoming a resource of carbon footprints.

So whether you are concerned with global warming, resource depletion, community strength, or the preservation of cultures, visit Sourcemap to share and learn about sustainable ideas.

Source: Sourcemap, Image Source: Sourcemap


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CA 06/27/2010 09:52 AM

For a socio-political theorization of this type of initiative, see also: Yannick Rumpala, "Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project", Twenty-First Century Society, Volume 4, Issue 3, November 2009 (an older version of the article is available at: yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/.../ ).