Green Index !!!!!

I was pondering over a lazy monday morning, while reading through my google reader entries on the Stock Marketand the rise and fall of the “Legend”…ahh…wait for it….”dary”………..’Index’, and also about how the human life advancements have threatened the Globe and day-by-day making it a difficult place to survive. Just then, the idea of an index that would actually calculate the amount of greenery around struck my mind. too bad I did not think about this much earlier. And today morning I got my usual newsletter from NatGeo and here it was…………Greendex ( Some coincidence..for a moment I just sat awestruck ).

Greendex is a novel concept ( not quite as I first though it to be…but hey….its awesome!!!). It actually is an index based on the survey of the ‘Environmentally Sustainable Consumption’ in approx 14 countries. India and Brazil were tied at the first place with a Greendex of 60, which gave a fair picture of consumer behavior and material lifestyle. The survey actually preferred to follow a unique method of grading or calculating the index to rank the performance of individual consumers, rather than countries as a whole…unlike other measures that rank countries according to the environmental performance of their governments, companies and other factors. This is what makes Greendex truly unique and very appealing.