OpenEco is a new global on-line community that provides free, easy-to-use tools to help participants assess, track, and compare business energy performance, share proven best practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and encourage sustainable innovation. Akin to social networks, OpenEco aims to help build support for carbon-reduction strategies though sharing information among companies, government institutions and NGOs, which all face pressure to create and meet serious goals to reduce their climate impact. The only requirement to join OpenEco.org is for member groups to share their data, either transparently or anonymously, a requirement that is in line with the site’s goals. OpenEco’s GHG emissions tool lets organizations share their carbon accounting data that would otherwise be buried in their spreadsheets. Sharing the information lets means organizations of all kinds can benchmark against one another, set realistic reduction goals and share best practices to meet them. Among the early adopters of OpenEco are Ceres, a coalition of investors and environmental groups, as well as environmental consulting firm Natural Logic.
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