Technology

the energy costs for the restaurant to operate, maintain their structure, maintain the roads for you and the employees to get to and from, costs of employee transit

that would be split though? a bit like a bus or train, average costs to produce the meals would be lower as they’re made in bulk

I find money to be a really good proxy for carbon emissions. The more you pay for something, the more people get money that they eventually spend on energy. So, if you go to a restaurant and pay $100 for the meal, don't focus on where the potatoes were grown or whatever, focus on the $100 - where does it go? Most of it ends up paying for the expenditure of energy eventually.

https://www.bankaust.com.au/about-us/conservation-reserve

Yes, but like the restaurant where you are just a pro-rated slice of "the bad things", schemes like this make you a pro-rated slice of "the good things." It's not a bad thing, but it's not as big of a good thing as it sounds by the time 10,000 people share in its "goodness."

Re: https://corenafund.org.au/

This: https://mangocats.com/ao/BeachVendorBlockchain.html is a half-baked idea I have been kicking around for use of blockchain tech as a backbone for small scale / local credit. Don't go expecting the simulation servers to be running or anything like that, I just spent a weekend updating the old ideas with spare AI token credits recently and while it made tremendous progress, as the papers themselves say: it really needs hands-on time and attention to develop it properly.