The Climate club
On the net you can get help quit smoking, get thinner, get healthier and get rid of other habits. September 1st “Grønn Hverdag” (Green Everyday), a group of volunteers, 14 organizations and groups of individuals, is launching a website called klimaklubben.no (The Climate Club). At first it will let users measure their extension of friendliness to the environment. They hope for several hundred thousands taking this initial test. Later they will offer tight follow up for the ones who want to make an effort thinking green.
They will give specific info regarding transport, warming, consumption, food habits and on other areas that can contribute to reducing own emissions. Information will be channelled by e-mail or sms. All for free. Users will also be able to set their own targets and to compete with other users to see who reduces their emissions most.
There will also be a community function where companies, municipalities and other group can register and get a designated area. This way a company can organize cycle-to-work competitions without having to create a huge project. Target members the first year is 30.000.
The interface is not released yet, I’m excited about the project and look forward to test it. Are there similar concepts out there?
There are lots a family can do, and there are lots of information to gather, maybe this system will help people get started?
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Interesting point of view. I’ll consider changing my mind about this but for now I still don’t see things the same way you do.
This is a very neat idea. Just invite me when it’s on and I will see if I will be liking it. The idea sounds great actually.
you are right about the internet being packed with nformation. the difficult part however is applying or putting those information into practice…
The project seems rather interesting. I too am quite interested in this and sure many would be, those who always think green.
Conservation is great. The fewer resources we use, the better off we are as a population. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
The problem is, when all four of the major temperature record keeping sources show the global temp dropping since 98, tying the efforts to conserve to the global warming… oops, I forgot, it’s climate change now that it’s not warming anymore, right? See my point? It makes it look like typical extreme leftist kookiness and keeps many people who would otherwise benefit away from it.
Prime example, the green app on myspace. I won’t activate it for because I don’t want to appear on my profile as detached from reality. Perhaps someone else will pick this idea up and run it as the beneficial service it can be without tying claims of “do this or die of global warming induced calamity” to it.