WiserEarth Area of Focus Suggestions

We are working on building a web site called Ex-Cost.org  (www.ex-cost.org) that has vigorously accepted the challenge of tracking all externalized costs around the globe.  These include social, environmental and economical costs.  We feel that the macro effects of these costs are coming due and each of us at our little table in the world are expecting a bill for our PB&J when it will actually be for two kilo's of Belugia caviar.  The world's population cannot accept this bill.

A social cost would be working two jobs with a two income family and facing increasing rates of divorce and health care issues.  An environmental issue would be a logging company clear cutting many steep mountains that 10 -15 years latter created massive mud slides into rivers and roads.  An economic cost would be a corporation recieving many tax cuts for a production plant but then closing the plant when these cuts expire many years latter.

The macro effects of all these externalized costs are in need of cataloging and tracking.  We are dedicated to doing this work and making it publically available to the people of the world.  Please help us by finding these costs in your communities and sending them to our website to be included in our localized data views.  We will have data tools on the website as soon as they are completed.