There is a lot of talk about the environment, energy and emissions. We all know what they are, but we don't really know how to quantify them or how to relate them to our daily lives:

we are told that one choice is "better than another", that we should cycle more and drive less, turn down the heating at home, eat more seasonal food and less meat, and so on... But how much do these choices weigh on sustainability goals? How can we compare one behaviour with another?

Resconda was founded to help people "count", so that everyone, even without special expertise, can "learn to calculate" their own impact, just as children are taught to do sums.
This is the first step towards a society of collective, shared environmental knowledge: a society in which each of us is able to choose, in everyday life, which actions to take, which behaviours to adopt and what to consume in order to reach our own environmental sustainability goal.

With a view to consciously restoring the balance between humanity and the environment, Resconda's aim is to enable each of us to:

1. Share a common language: know the units of measurement of the environment and of energy, those of greenhouse gases such as CO2 or of energy such as the watt-hour, and orders of magnitude such as kilo, mega, giga, etc.;
2. Relate these quantities to what we do every day: know the environmental impact of each of our behaviours and of what we buy and use, based on a consistent and reliable set of data;
3. Set goals: decide how far, and to what extent, to help reduce our ecological footprint, both individually and collectively, defining our own ability and willingness to help restore the balance between humanity and the environment in the light of the data and models provided by the international scientific community.

"Conoscere per deliberare" ("know in order to decide"), the best known of Luigi Einaudi's "Prediche inutili" ("Useless sermons"), is a fundamental principle for individual action in politics, economics and society. It is time to apply this principle to the environment and to humanity's interaction with it, so that everyone can act knowingly, choosing how and how far to reduce their environmental impact.

It is time to give everyone the chance to get down to the reality of the environmental problem: workable solutions, the numbers at stake, priorities, informed choices. Only in this way can we secure the widest rights and opportunities for future generations, within the limits irrevocably set by the ecosystem of which humanity is a part.

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