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About The Almanac
What we are:
The Almanac is a web application designed to help you learn about and reduce your personal contribution to global warming. It aims to do so by keeping track of your consumption, showing you how widespread adoption of your lifestyle would affect the globe, and giving you numerous simple actions you can take to reduce your footprint – along with the actual reduction in your footprint that these actions would cause.
Global warming is an enormous problem caused by an incredible number of small actions performed by everyone on the planet. The complexity of consumption today makes it such that even within our own lives, the number of actions we perform that are connected to climate change can seem beyond the ability to comprehend. The Almanac was created to take what seems like an impossibly complicated problem – understanding and managing our consumption's impact on the globe through climate change – and making it manageable and simple enough to fit within our lives. Our goal is that it will allow people to turn their concerns about global warming into action.
Who we are:
Jonah Bloch-Johnson, co-founder
Jonah is a mathematician and composer who started The Almanac because of a desire to understand how his consumption of everyday things impacted the world. In his quest to find out, he manages day-to-day operations and leads back-end development. Jonah studied composition at Oberlin Conservatory before transferring to Columbia to complete his undergraduate degree in mathematics and music. His research interests include the computational structures of life cycle assessment.
Jonah is a mathematician and composer who started The Almanac because of a desire to understand how his consumption of everyday things impacted the world. In his quest to find out, he manages day-to-day operations and leads back-end development. Jonah studied composition at Oberlin Conservatory before transferring to Columbia to complete his undergraduate degree in mathematics and music. His research interests include the computational structures of life cycle assessment.
Michael Glass, developer and systems administrator
Michael is a computer scientist and network engineer with extensive experience writing rich, interactive internet applications. Before coming to The Almanac, while on leave from his undergraduate studies at Columbia, he helped develop the collaborative writing platform MixedInk.com. Michael returned to Columbia this fall to complete his degree.
Michael is a computer scientist and network engineer with extensive experience writing rich, interactive internet applications. Before coming to The Almanac, while on leave from his undergraduate studies at Columbia, he helped develop the collaborative writing platform MixedInk.com. Michael returned to Columbia this fall to complete his degree.
Zeke Runyon, developer
Zeke is a computer scientist and musician currently in his last year at Oberlin College. His research interests include artificial intelligence, specifically applied to music information retrieval. Here at The Almanac, he has been juggling front- and back-end development. Zeke is an avid steel pannist (at Oberlin he is the director of Oberlin Steel) and photographer.
Zeke is a computer scientist and musician currently in his last year at Oberlin College. His research interests include artificial intelligence, specifically applied to music information retrieval. Here at The Almanac, he has been juggling front- and back-end development. Zeke is an avid steel pannist (at Oberlin he is the director of Oberlin Steel) and photographer.
Gershon Dublon, developer
Gershon is a multimedia artist and electrical engineer currently in his first year of graduate studies at the MIT Media Lab. Before coming to The Almanac to work on back-end development, he worked as a sensor networks researcher at Yale University, where he completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and music.
Gershon is a multimedia artist and electrical engineer currently in his first year of graduate studies at the MIT Media Lab. Before coming to The Almanac to work on back-end development, he worked as a sensor networks researcher at Yale University, where he completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and music.