Impact units

Arthur Brock said in "UPLIFT EXPEDITION: The Philo as a Means of Stimulating Microenterprise at omidyar.net" on Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:25:35 PDT:

Being thoroughly infected with the importance of currencies, I would create a series of performance metric currencies called something like Impact Units.

Some examples of possible Impact Units in their respective domains could be things like:

• Human Welfare: # meals provided, # bed-nights, # community-service hours, # houses built, apartments renovated, articles of clothing supplied, half-days of child-care provided, etc...
• Social Justice: # of job placements, hours of job-retraining, equitable currencies implemented, dollars of military funding diverted, instances of affordable medical care provided, units of affordable housing provided, etc...
• Environment: # of trees saved/planted, pounds of oxygen produced, gallons of water purified, gallans of water saved, tons of CO2 removed from air, tons of garbage recycled, KW-hours of renewable energy produced, etc...

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