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[[heande:Handprinter]]
 
[[heande:Handprinter]]
 
[[Category:Life cycle assessment]]
 
[[Category:Life cycle assessment]]
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{{encyclopedia|moderator=Jouni|stub=Yes}}
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{{method|moderator=Jouni}}
  
 
'''What is Handprinter?
 
'''What is Handprinter?
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And with enough handprints, we can heal the planet.
 
And with enough handprints, we can heal the planet.
  
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==Calculations==
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==Question==
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How to model life cycle impacts online in such a way that
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* a user can add ideas about new actions, and
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* calculations are based on open data?
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==Answer==
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[[File:Handprinter diagram.png|400px]]
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==Rationale==
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=== Data structures ===
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'''First level: leaves
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Functions (that solve some specified needs) {{attack|# |Or Services?|--[[User:Jouni|Jouni]] ([[User talk:Jouni|talk]]) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)}}
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* Function (name)
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* Description
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* Need solved (category)
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* Unit (of the service)
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* Result (what amount of service is needed to fulfil the need)
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Actions (that are to improve the situation i.e. create handprint)
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* Depreciate (a way that is to be avoided) {{attack|# |Or a function to fulfil the need?|--[[User:Jouni|Jouni]] ([[User talk:Jouni|talk]]) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)}}
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* Appreciate (a way that is to be encouraged)
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* Type (of action: act, behavioral change, choice, deploy, replace, influence)
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* Participant (who originally suggested the appreciated way)
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* Description (of the appreciated way)
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* Result (some kind of measure of the amount of service?)
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'''Second level: branches
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Ways (that are practical ways to provide one unit of functionality, i.e. to fulfil service the need. First, we assume that one way fulfils one need)
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* Way (name)
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* Function (name)
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* Product (needed to produce a service; from the UN CPC list)
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* Fraction (of product lifetime needed to produce one service) {{attack|# |Where do we put this?|--[[User:Jouni|Jouni]] ([[User talk:Jouni|talk]]) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)}}
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* Unit (of product)
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* Result (amount of product needed for a service)
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'''Third level (trunk)
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Products
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* Product (name)
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* Price (of product to the consumer)
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* Lifetime (a)
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* Usage per year -> total number of usage during lifetime can be derived
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* Energy per usage (kWh?){{attack|# | What about fuel used?|--[[User:Jouni|Jouni]] ([[User talk:Jouni|talk]]) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)}}
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* {{attack|# |Other things such as water consumed or CO2 or carcinogens produced per usage?|--[[User:Jouni|Jouni]] ([[User talk:Jouni|talk]]) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)}}
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* Category (in the USEPA BEA (BEA = baseline environmental assessment?)
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===Calculations===
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====Add actions====
  
 
Suggest an action that could reduce the footprint of some activity. Fill in the form, then click "Add a new action".
 
Suggest an action that could reduce the footprint of some activity. Fill in the form, then click "Add a new action".
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name:phone|description:Your phone number (with international and area code)|type:text|
 
name:phone|description:Your phone number (with international and area code)|type:text|
 
name:actionname|description:Give a name for your action|type:text|
 
name:actionname|description:Give a name for your action|type:text|
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name:actiondescription|description:Description of your action|type:text|
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name:benefits|description:What are the benefits that will occur with your action?|type:text|
 
name:actioncontext|description:What is the context of your action?|type:selection|options:
 
name:actioncontext|description:What is the context of your action?|type:selection|options:
 
; - select -;
 
; - select -;
 
'Home';Home;
 
'Home';Home;
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'Consumer';Consumer;
 
 
'Manufacturing';Manufacturing;
 
'Manufacturing';Manufacturing;
 
'Retail';Retail;
 
'Retail';Retail;
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'Process change';Process change;
 
'Process change';Process change;
 
'Infrastructure change';Infrastructure change|
 
'Infrastructure change';Infrastructure change|
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name:actiondescription|description:Description of your action|type:text|
 
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name:benefits|description:What are the benefits that will occur with your action?|type:text|
 
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name:quantification|description:If you can, describe quantitatively how large the benefits are (in kg, litres, kWh and so on)|type:text|
 
 
name:activity|description:To what activity does your action relate?|type:selection|options:
 
name:activity|description:To what activity does your action relate?|type:selection|options:
 
; - select -;
 
; - select -;
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</rcode>
 
</rcode>
  
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===Show actions===
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====Show actions by keyword====
  
 
Click "Show actions" to browse through the list of action ideas that someone has suggested so far.
 
Click "Show actions" to browse through the list of action ideas that someone has suggested so far.
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</rcode>
 
</rcode>
  
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===User input interface for API===
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====Show action contexts and activity categories====
  
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The first code is an API that takes in user input and converts that into an output that can be used as an interface data package between the API and Opasnet.
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<rcode embed=1>
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<rcode name="API" embed=1 label="Create API output" variables="
 
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name:email|description:Your email (personal information is not revealed to third parties)|type:text|
 
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category:Information about your action|
 
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name:phone|description:Your phone number (with international and area code)|type:text|
 
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name:actionname|description:Give a name for your action|type:text|
 
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name:actioncontext|description:What is the context of your action?|type:selection|options:
 
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; - select -;
 
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'Home';Home;
 
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'Consumer';Consumer;
 
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'Manufacturing';Manufacturing;
 
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'Retail';Retail;
 
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'Farming and agriculture';Farming and agriculture|
 
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name:category|description:To which category does your action belong?|type:selection|options:
 
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; - select -;
 
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'Behavior change';Behavior change;
 
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'Process change';Process change;
 
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'Infrastructure change';Infrastructure change|
 
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name:actiondescription|description:Description of your action|type:text|
 
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name:benefits|description:What are the benefits that will occur with your action?|type:text|
 
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name:quantification|description:If you can, describe quantitatively how large the benefits are (in kg, litres, kWh and so on)|type:text|
 
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name:activity|description:To what activity does your action relate?|type:selection|options:
 
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; - select -;
 
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'A';Agriculture, forestry and fishing;
 
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'B';Mining and quarrying|
 
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name:subactivity|description:Select a sub-activity|type:selection|options:
 
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;- select -;
 
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'A01';Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities;
 
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'A02';Forestry and logging;
 
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'A03';Fishing and aquaculture|
 
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category:Subactivity|category_conditions:activity;'A'|
 
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name:subactivity|description:Select a sub-activity|type:selection|options:
 
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;- select -;
 
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'B05';Mining of coal and lignite;
 
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'B06';Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas;
 
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'B07';Mining of metal ores;
 
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'B08';Other mining and quarrying;
 
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'B09';Mining support service activities|
 
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category:Subactivity|category_conditions:activity;'B'
 
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">
 
 
library(OpasnetUtils)
 
library(OpasnetUtils)
 
library(OpasnetUtilsExt)
 
library(OpasnetUtilsExt)
  
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dat <- data.frame(
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dat <- opbase.data("Op_en5782.actions")
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Email = email,
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Phone = phone,
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contexts <- unique(levels(dat$Action.context)[dat$Action.context])
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Action.name = actionname,
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Action.context = actioncontext,
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cat("See list of functions under an action context:\n")
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Category = category,
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for(i in contexts) olink(paste("Handprinter/Action_context?show[search]='", i, "'", sep = ""), wiki = "op_en", text = i)
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Benefits = benefits,
 
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Quantification = quantification,
 
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Description = actiondescription,
 
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Activity = activity,
 
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Subactivity = subactivity,
 
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Result = 0
 
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)
 
  
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oprint(dat)
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activity <- unique(levels(dat$Subactivity)[dat$Action.context])
  
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out <- paste(
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cat("See list of functions under an activity category:\n")
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"Handprinter?add[email]=", email,
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for(i in activity) olink(paste("Handprinter/Activity_category?show[search]='", i, "'", sep = ""), wiki = "op_en", text = i)
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"&add[phone]=", phone,
 
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"&add[actionname]=", actionname,
 
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"&add[actioncontext]='", actioncontext, "'",
 
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"&add[category]='", category, "'",
 
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"&add[actiondescription]=", actiondescription,
 
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"&add[benefits]=", benefits,
 
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"&add[quantification]=", quantification,
 
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"&add[activity]='", activity, "'",
 
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"&add[subactivity]='", subactivity, "'",
 
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"#Calculations",
 
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sep = ""
 
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)
 
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olink(out, wiki = "op_en", text = "This URL uploads the data given to the API")
 
  
 
</rcode>
 
</rcode>
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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[[heande:Handprinter]]
  
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* [[Handprinter API]]
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* [[Central product classification]]
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* [[:heande:Talk:Handprinter]]
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* [http://www.openlca.org/documentation/index.php/Main_Page OpenLCA]
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* [http://www.international-sustainable-campus-network.org/latest-news/ International Sustainable Campus Network]
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* [[Handprinter/Activity category]] automatic code
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* [[Handprinter/Action context]] automatic code
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* [[Handprinter API]]
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* [[Satellite matrix for life cycle assessment]]
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* [[Normalisation data for life cycle assessments]]
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* [[Life cycle assessment]]
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* [[LCA of a coffee cup]]
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* [[Damage vector for life-cycle analysis]]
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* [[Cradle through consumer BEA]]
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* [[:Category:Life cycle assessment]]
 
* [[R-tools#Giving parameters in an URL]]
 
* [[R-tools#Giving parameters in an URL]]
 
* [http://www.handprinter.org/ Handprinter Main Page]
 
* [http://www.handprinter.org/ Handprinter Main Page]
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* [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=27 International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.4]
 
* [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=27 International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.4]
 
* [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=231&Lg=1 International Classification of Activities for Time-Use Statistics]
 
* [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=231&Lg=1 International Classification of Activities for Time-Use Statistics]
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* [http://living-future.org/ International Living Future Institute]
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* [http://www.epimorphics.com/web/Earthster Epimorphics about Earthster2: Semantic Web based LCA]
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* [http://www.newearth.info/ NewEarth]
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* [http://openlca.org/web/guest OpenLCA]
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* [[:en:GTAP|Global Trade Analysis Project GTAP]]
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Latest revision as of 04:18, 23 January 2016



What is Handprinter?

We often hear about our negative impact on the planet – our environmental footprint. But footprints are only half the picture. The other half is just coming into view.

It’s called a handprint, and it measures the positive impacts we can make, simply by changing the way we do things, at home, and at work.


Handprinter helps you know and grow your handprint.

First, it lets you calculate your environmental footprint. You enter in some simple data about things like what you eat, how often you travel, and what kind of products you buy, and Handprinter shows you your environmental impact.

Second, it offers suggestions for simple actions you can take to lower your impact on the planet – things like installing a low-flow showerhead, or carpooling to work or school. You can choose actions from our database, or come up with your own actions and add them to the collection.

And best of all, Handprinter lets you spread your ideas and actions around the world, see their progress, and measure them. When you refer your friends to Handprinter, and when their friends sign on, their handprints become part of yours. Inspire enough people, and your handprint eventually outweighs your footprint.

And with enough handprints, we can heal the planet.

Question

How to model life cycle impacts online in such a way that

  • a user can add ideas about new actions, and
  • calculations are based on open data?

Answer

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Rationale

Data structures

First level: leaves

Functions (that solve some specified needs) ⇤# : Or Services? --Jouni (talk) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

  • Function (name)
  • Description
  • Need solved (category)
  • Unit (of the service)
  • Result (what amount of service is needed to fulfil the need)

Actions (that are to improve the situation i.e. create handprint)

  • Depreciate (a way that is to be avoided) ⇤# : Or a function to fulfil the need? --Jouni (talk) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Appreciate (a way that is to be encouraged)
  • Type (of action: act, behavioral change, choice, deploy, replace, influence)
  • Participant (who originally suggested the appreciated way)
  • Description (of the appreciated way)
  • Result (some kind of measure of the amount of service?)

Second level: branches

Ways (that are practical ways to provide one unit of functionality, i.e. to fulfil service the need. First, we assume that one way fulfils one need)

  • Way (name)
  • Function (name)
  • Product (needed to produce a service; from the UN CPC list)
  • Fraction (of product lifetime needed to produce one service) ⇤# : Where do we put this? --Jouni (talk) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Unit (of product)
  • Result (amount of product needed for a service)

Third level (trunk)

Products

  • Product (name)
  • Price (of product to the consumer)
  • Lifetime (a)
  • Usage per year -> total number of usage during lifetime can be derived
  • Energy per usage (kWh?)⇤# : What about fuel used? --Jouni (talk) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
  • ⇤# : Other things such as water consumed or CO2 or carcinogens produced per usage? --Jouni (talk) 04:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
  • Category (in the USEPA BEA (BEA = baseline environmental assessment?)

Calculations

Add actions

Suggest an action that could reduce the footprint of some activity. Fill in the form, then click "Add a new action".

Information about your action

Your email (personal information is not revealed to third parties):

Your phone number (with international and area code):

Give a name for your action:

Description of your action:

What are the benefits that will occur with your action?:

What is the context of your action?:

To which category does your action belong?:

To what activity does your action relate?:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Select a sub-activity:

Subactivity

Describe the activity:

+ Show code

Show actions by keyword

Click "Show actions" to browse through the list of action ideas that someone has suggested so far.

Search for this word (otherwise all actions are shown):

+ Show code

Show action contexts and activity categories

+ Show code

See also

References


Related files

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