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Measure to Improve
by DolphinAgent on 05 May 2002 @ 04:36 PM

I've been reading about some great contributions recently at all levels of the tribal family.

Now if only there was a way to measure the combined effectiveness of all these actions. You know, determine if its changed actual behavior in any way? Reduced some metric such as dioxin emissions, etc.

I'd love to hear that as a result of viewing a campaign, someone:

1. signed up for green news,
2. took the green ribbon pledge,
3. stopped driving a petrol guzzling automobile,
4. started bicycling to work, or
5. now gets a significant portion of their products from green sources.

Does this sound boring? Think of it like this. WE ARE DOING ALL THIS GREAT WORK, wouldn't we like to see whether or not we've helped to move the needle or the thermometer for a given metric in a particular year, or month? Even if the numbers show an increase in emissions, maybe the efforts have slowed the RATE OF INCREASE.

What is the feasibility of allowing a truly committed volunteer to set up a reporting device like this. It would tie all the green metrics together in the form of an cockpit style instrument panel, and once could drill into the sources.




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Re: Measure to Improve
by Anonymous on 07 May 2002 @ 06:15 PM
If you build it, they will come.
Re: Measure to Improve
by Anonymous on 07 May 2002 @ 11:50 PM
hey, i'm not certain if this organization has any respect here at all, but you can try

http://www.globalchange.gov

hope that helps.
Re: Measure to Improve
by Blake V. Roman on 08 May 2002 @ 12:05 AM
I know the meaning of your effort.I hope some day we can reach all the goals we are looking for right now such as pollution reduction and ecological commitment at all.
Which Politicians Take Money from Polluters?
by Anonymous on 09 May 2002 @ 06:30 AM
Make sure you include data and links to show all the politicians who get funding from dirty money.

http://gsi.ewg.org/fp.acgi$topsuper?

http://www.ewg.org/dirtymoney/
Re: Measure to Improve
by Radagast on 09 May 2002 @ 01:28 PM
The closest to this I've seen is the Worldwatch Institute's Vital Signs annual report at:

http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/vs/vs01/VSfact.html

These reports are in turn largely based on UN reports.

I think a web-based interface for these stats is a great idea. Maybe you could suggest it to them.

R.
Re: Measure to Improve
by Mara on 09 May 2002 @ 03:44 PM
I think that more details should be included such as,
energy saving
water consumption reduction
clean energy production ect.

If you can somehow read italian, i'd like you to read this link http://www.jacopofo.it/jacopofo/ecologia/ecologiasubito.html
It's a web site held by the son of the Nobel prize Dario Fo (literature), there is a list of "tricks" that any of us can start from now to use in order to save energy or water ect..

peace
mara
Energy Conservation - Cooking Rice
by listenin on 09 May 2002 @ 04:29 PM


Instead of boiling rice for 40 - 45 minutes, I cook it with a total of about 10 - 15 minutes of fuel consumption. Try this :

Put your water and rice in the pot. Bring the water to a boil, about 2 - 5 minutes. Shut off the heat. Let the rice/water sit on the burner for about an hour, until it cools down some. Or you can leave it for up to a whole day.

You will find that the rice is almost entirely cooked.

Finish cooking , about 5 - 15 minutes. The amount of rice being cooked, the type of rice, the type of pot and the type of stove being used are all variables that prevent me from being more accurate about how long it might take for you.

I think this method of cooking is likely not very popular because using stoves with heat dials that one can simply turn on and off the heat is a relatively new thing.

But

It works.

I've found that this method not only cuts the cooking time to about 1/4 of more popular methods, but it also seems to better preserve the flavor of the rice, a quality that I like, too.

Total cooking time : ~ 7 - 20 minutes. Fuel consumption saved : about 1/2 hour.

It works for other seeds and grains, too.

Try it and let us know what you think.
Re: Measure to Improve
by Perfect Indian on 10 May 2002 @ 04:33 PM
Hi

Here are a few tests that are a funny way to try to measure environmental impact. What is not funny is that if everyone lived my lifestyle, we would need about 2.8 planets to support the human population.

http://www.earthday.net/footprint.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/environment/quiz1a.jsp
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/environment/quiz2.jsp

Ashamed Poetry

Perfect Indian
Re: Measure to Improve
by Guia Girona on 10 May 2002 @ 07:26 PM

Wy not??? I hope this project reach a lot off people who want's doing somthing for. Because all speak a lot and anyone do somthing.
a Greenpeace icon/watcher running all the time?
by Anonymous on 11 May 2002 @ 02:25 PM
"What is the feasibility of allowing a truly committed volunteer to set up a reporting device like this?"

Low. Most of the problem is standardization and agreement on how to measure. That makes it very hard for a volunteer to do, as they won't always have the organizational clout of a staffer working on a funded project.

"It would tie all the green metrics together in the form of an cockpit style instrument panel, and once could drill into the sources."

It would be nice to have a Greenpeace icon on the bottom right Windows bar, running all the time to tell me something about the products I'm shopping for and the companies I'm considering buying from (which it can see in my web browser, if I let it).

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