Consumption Opportunities Project

[jmanooch]

CO-OP Consumption Opportunities (300K USD)
Key resource book for sustainable consumption, clarifying and organising the agenda,
demonstrating benefits, with all essential information on mandates, concepts, policies,
resource consumption and consumer data, methods. CO-OP intends to be the key reference
for technical or informed agents entering and acting with the sustainable consumption
agenda. Chapters to be written by main experts in each area. If financing permits, CO-OP
can be reproduced in different versions for specific audiences.

CLICK CLear Information for Critical Knowledge (30K USD/web; 70K USD/briefs)
Simple web-based resource with downloadable extremely clear briefs on concepts, policy,
actions, case-studies, methods. Not a database. Users will be able to take away briefs either
dedicated to their context, or highly crafted briefings on key areas of sustainable
consumption, all supporting the development of critical knowledge in sustainable
consumption.

ROCK Research Oracle For Connected Knowledge (50K)
Simple web-based tool to stimulate research exchange and creativity, across the many
sciences working on sustainable consumption. User-generated summaries of sustainable
consumption-related research, structured and presented online in computer-generated
format, for example auto-generated cluster maps, with ‘oracular’ computer-generated
matching of apparently similar but currently unrelated research across disciplines. Site
contents is auto-updating using automated archiving and reminders to record owners.