EcoSnoop is an evolving social community. As community, we need to maintain a certain decorum to assure everyone benefits from the "networks" observations to eliminate waste. These principles form the foundation of our online community, operations, and future strategies.
- Assisting Energy Efficiency: Energy Efficiency offers a solution for saving money, reducing dependence on sources of energy, and offers a hedge to the uncertainty of CO2 emissions impact on cooling or warming.
- Owners: Building owners, government and other large entities seek to reduce waste and inefficiency, but are not always aware of how they are wasting resources.
- Observations: Customers and users of buildings and public space sometimes observe opportunities to improve efficiency, save energy or otherwise help business, government or the community, but are unsure who to inform.
- Solutions: There are experts with effective solutions that have difficulty finding opportunities to help business, government and the community.
- Free Market: A free market matching solutions and opportunities reduces the need for regulations, tariffs, and taxes.
- Crowd Sourcing: Social networking systems can facilitate the connection between those that observe an opportunity, those that seek better solutions and those that offer solutions.
- Privacy: Despite the benefits of Social Networking and tools offered by EcoSnoop, people have the right to privacy. As a community, the EcoSnoop community will respect the rights of people and corporations to Privacy. We assume others are likely aware of the opportunities discovered through EcoSnoop. EcoSnoop will continue to adapt to facilitate solutions, reducing intrusion and eliminating misuse.
- Residences: The community will not seek or report on opportunities regarding someone else’s residences/homes. Personal privacy must be respected at all times.
- Respect the Views of Others: EcoSnoop is not a political platform. EcoSnoop is about using technology and social networking to help people, companies and communities understand how awareness can eliminate waste, reduce emissions, and save money.
- No Personal Attacks: Do not use EcoSnoop to single out and attack people or companies. The best way to help people understand is through better information and cooperation. In taking pictures and making notes on the EcoSnoop site, think about what information will help a person or company understand how energy efficiency and waste reduction can help them improve profitability and community appeal.
- Company Names and Private Data: It is helpful to identify opportunities and describe ways to improve, but EcoSnoop finds the property owners take action quicker if they are not threatened or attacked. Sometimes when lights are left on at night it might be a simple instance of night maintenance rather than persistent waste. The EcoSnoop community assumes everyone is well meaning, so given them a chance to take action. If they take no action, assume there is a good reason or work to better educate.
