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brilliant:

sourcemap

(hat tip to my friend Richard for this one)

I’ve thought about this idea for ages, and someone is finally implementing it:  Show me precisely the source (and by extension, a way to gauge environmental impact) for all the materials in things I purchase so that I can make good decisions.

sourcemap is brilliant.  From the site:

SourceMap is an open source project about where things come from.

Simply put: We believe that people have the right to know where things come from and what they are made of.
Sourcemap is a platform for researching, optimizing and sharing the supply chains behind a number of everyday products (more info).

Here’s a snippet from their site of what’s behind a “typical laptop computer”