Network and community effects are always more powerful than individual efforts. Building communities around Green profiles makes a lot of sense. Treehugger here asks about whether people will be willing to put up with more intrusive but smarter metering. It seems to me that if social software teaches us anything its that people are more than willing to share information about themselves. Privacy is an incredibly complex thing and depends utterly on context and intention. makemesustainable is trying to tap into our willingness to share, to make us more sustainable.
Yesterday I wrote that at RedMonk has yet to formulate a policy to lower our carbon footprint, but I also said that tracking our travel via the DOPPLR service was one potential route to reporting on our footprint. Arguably using DOPPLR already contributes to better environmental effects- if it saves one piece of travel by allowing trips to be “batched” then we all benefit. DOPPLR already knows how far I have traveled this year- about 36,421k miles.
What is declarative living? Its the willingness to share. It will likely be a huge benefit for greener living. DOPPLR at first glance looks like a service for traveling more, but with the right tools in place we can travel less. Which is nice- with any luck we can all spend more time at home with those we love.