Jen van der Meer

Jen van der Meer

I like to measure the impact of everything: financial, environmental, and social.

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LifeCycles and Flows at SVA PoD

Teaching Lifecycles and Flows with Rebecca Silver at SVA’s Products of Design - product backstories, systems thinking, life cycle assessment. Or, environmental accounting, taught to design students. With stunning results - Here is Emi Yasaka’s assessment of her REI backback

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Measuring the Water Crisis: The Wrong Call to Action?

We tend to tell the story of developing world crisis in numbers:

Almost 1 billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water.

That’s one in eight of us.

Every day more than 4,000 children around the world die from diseases caused by poor water sanitation

In Africa alone, people spend 40 [...]

New Post at Amex Open Forum: How to Tally Green Jobs: Do Bikes and Biodiesel Count?

Aug 10, 2010 -
The recent weak news on the unemployment front leaves some of us wondering: Where are all of the green jobs?
The U.S. Department of Commerce made an attempt to answer this very question and set a benchmark to measure the size of the emerging green economy by the number of green jobs it [...]

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