Many complex factors go into defining one’s environmental impact. Of course, small actions – like switching to compact fluorescent light bulbs or recycling plastic bottles – add up and are significant. But we intuitively know there’s more to it than that. To live sustainably we first have to understand the many different impacts of our consumption [...] [...]
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EVO’s Total Environmental Impact Model provides a clear picture of how our behavior and purchases in different consumption categories have dramatic effects on the environment as measured by 4 main types of impacts: CO2 and CH4 (main greenhouse gases) Land required Water & Air Pollution (not including CO2 and CH4) Fresh water required How are the different types of impact [...] [...] What is the EVO Tree all about? The EVO Tree looks simple, but it is based on the integration of several complex data models used to assess the wide range of impacts we have on the environment. The EVO tree asks you a series of questions and based on your answers will show you how “green” [...] [...] There’s quite a bit of math that goes into each one of the EVO questions. What follows is an example of how we score a question. There are 3 steps to scoring a question… STEP 1 determines the “average American” (yellow) answer. STEP 2 determines the “efficacy” of the question, that is the amount by which the [...] [...] #3 The EPA just OK’d the ongoing devastation in Appalachia, approving 42 more permits for mountaintop coal mining. Mountain top removal puts miners out of work and permanently destroys the most important temperature forest on earth. Read the article: http://www.mnn.com/technology/researc… Sign the petition: http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/nr… Find out if you are connected to mountain top coal: http://www.mnn.com/technology/gadgets… #2 A Star (Factory) is Born [...] [...] |
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