Ravi Kapur is a young and motivated science communicator with a long and brilliant experience in different fields. He was at the EOS 7 Earth and Art Session in Vienna last April as a member of a Company, Carbon Visuals, where he acts as chief operating officer. His participation in our session has been of great importance since he represents the private sector. When we talk about Earth sustainability, it is impossible to promote it without involving in it private stakeholders. One important mission of Carbon Visual is “allowing business and political leaders to make wiser choices”. They do it using innovative environmental visualization. “Our core capability”, says Ravi ” is to make carbon “visible” by converting mass (Kg/tons) into volume and creating meaningful image sets, films and web tools”. Most environmental issues are essentially quantitative. For many otherwise intelligent audiences such issues are either boring or completely inaccessible. Carbon Visuals’ approach helps audiences relate quantitative issues on a personal level.
Not only Carbon, other interesting video help for instance to visualize all the accessible fresh water in the world, giving at a first glance the idea of how fundamental is to preserve fresh water.
One of their most popular video shows the Carbon Dioxed emission in New York city for the 2010. In the video are visualized: 54,349,650 tons a year = 148,903 tons a day = 6,204 tons an hour = 1.72 tons a second.
New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions as one-ton spheres of carbon dioxide gas
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