http://greeneage.com/blog/ (beta now, starts on 1/1/2008)
- Younghyun Chung
Daily Sustainable Practice Recommendation Blog
This blog is an recommendation of "how" to sustainable in daily life
especially at home and office. Also it will introduce "why" part of
the practice as well as impact info.
The recommendations are categories into place(home, office, street),
difficulty(easy, normal, difficult), and area(energy, resource, waste).
In addition, each entry has tags so that easily access to sustainable tips
through categories and tags.
I will keep doing this blog after the semester because the time and energy
we spent in class discussion and presentation should be continued.
examples of daily recommendations
- Stop thinking in a shower
- Say No to a plastic bag
- How to avoid junk mail
- Use efficient lighting
- Buy efficient electric appliances
- Cut off standby losses
- Use a water-saving shower head
- Use a laptop instead of a desktop
- Use an LCD instead of an old CRT monitor
examples of source
Green Mileage Model
- Green Product and Service + Mileage
- incentive for both of provider and consumer
- Put Greeneage Icon
- encourages people to buy the products
- gives additional information (how & why)
- why?
- Present market environment: No consideration for consumer, No feasible incentive for consumer
- Feasible incentive increase ethical consumer
- Leads more eco-friendly products and services
- Problem
- #1 - who measures the points and impacts?
- #2 - how to calculate the impacts?
- #3 - how to exchange it with carbon offset?
- Idea for Greeneage Icon
- indicates improvement compare to the previous year
- absolute impact as well as improving effort is important
- above icon and point will be one more considering element to purchase
