Bex Labs

Why it exists

The emission factors are public. DEFRA publishes them every June, and Our World in Data, Ember and OurAirports fill in the rest. They are published for company reporting, though, so they arrive as spreadsheets with scope labels on them and nothing a person can do with them. Most carbon footprint calculators solve that by hiding the factor and handing you a number to take on trust. This one puts the factor, its source and its year on the row, so you can disagree with the arithmetic instead of the conclusion. I am not claiming it is precise. I am claiming you can check it.

What it does

• Pick an activity, a flight, a beef meal, a month of electricity, say how much of it, and it lands in a table with the emission factor and the total in kg CO2e.
• Every row carries its source, year, unit and basis, and the methodology page is generated from that data rather than written by hand, so it cannot drift out of sync with the numbers in use.
• Physical estimates where a quantity exists and spend-based ones where it does not, each marked as such, rather than a mode switch that asks you to know the difference first.
• No backend and no account. The arithmetic runs in the browser, nothing you type is transmitted, and nothing is kept once the tab closes, which is what the printable receipt is for.

Why it exists

People often say that LGBTQ+ equality is something a country can afford only once it is rich. It is said a lot and tested rarely. The data to check it is public, but it sits in different places: the World Bank, the UNDP, and a few equality indices. Nobody had put it together, so I did, and left the reader to decide what it means.

What it does

• A world map of legal equality, compared against a dozen socioeconomic indicators.
• Country by country figures with the sources and years shown, not hidden.
• A methodology page listing every source, every step, and every country the data could not cover.
• No cookies, no trackers, no third-party scripts.