Lifeprint
English: Started by Lifeprint on July 26, 2013.
Description: People often choose what companies or manufacturers to support based on social responsibility or ethics. When the public became more aware of environmental issues commercial organizations were forced to a degree to publish some measure of their environmental impact for their products, such as certifying that timber is not from a rainforest etc. One measure of environmental impact is the carbon footprint of a service or product. Another measure is the water footprint of a product: the water used in manufacture of an item. A more important measure is a product's death footprint index: the number of people killed in the manufacture of a product, provision of a service, or by an organisation or other entity. When choosing a globally available service or product, the customer could choose based on the death footprint or lifeprint index of a supplier. The lifeprint is the best choice based on least harm. The role of ourproject.org would be to host the lifeprint wiki to collate lifeprint indices. The collation could be at any level of resolution that is available: eg deaths per tonne of coal production in China, or Poland, US or UK for instance. Divide a year or ten years worth of production by the number of deaths in that industry over the same period to give a figure that can be compared between countries, or companies. This data, though 'out there' is not instantaneously accessible for the public or procurement departments.
A lifeprint wiki would collate this data by anyone being able to contribute.
It would be the best guide for ethical purchasing. Eventually it would be in companies' interest to have a low deathprint rating. The name lifeprint is a positive aspect to the death footprint issue, and encourages the idea of being able to do something to change global manufacturing patterns and worker welfare. If each entity (country, group, government, company etc) has its own page with its index rating other environmental or ethical data could be collated, but some way of searching within classifications based on index rating would be useful, so that the figure can be immediately be found and compared with that of other entities providing the same commodity or service...allowing the lowest deathprint to be found. Each entities page could hold a description of relevant factors.
