When I was invited to become a Visiting Research Fellow of the Computing and Mathematics Department of the London Metropolitan University, I designed the 'Global Monitoring Project' (GMP): http://cctmdev2.unl.ac.uk/sabine/

I aimed at a website that shows visually the unustainable exponential growth of the money supply as credit and CO2 and other emissions. 

DRUPAL now seems to offer not only the tool but also the community with which to achieve this - unsurprisingly outside academia...