-------------------------------------------------- G D R C M o s a i c www.gdrc.org August 2008 -------------------------------------------------- Welcome to another edition of GDRC's Mosaic! This month, GDRC Mosaic is being set to more than 2000 subscribers in 130 countries worldwide. -------------------------------------------------- THIS MONTH'S SPOTLIGHT: InfoPac on the 3R Concept, from GDRC's Programme on Urban Environmental Management. While '3Rs' stand for reduce, reuse and recycle, the concept itself goes beyond just better waste management and calls for the building of an economy based on the life-cycle approach, covering both sustainable production and sustainable consumption. The basic idea of a 3R approach is a shift away from a mass consumption society to one that is based on a life-cycle, sound material flow society. The 3R concept is an umbrella that brings together different concepts to enable a coherent and integrated approach to sustainablity. GDRC has been working on these and related issues. Resources on this topic are available at: http://www.gdrc.org/uem/waste/z-doc.html#3r As with all sections of GDRC, contributions, comments and suggestions are always welcome from users and subscribers! Please contact GDRC's Coordinator at - hsrinivas@gdrc.org -------------------------------------------------- FOCUS ON GDRC: LEARNING LESSONS Ultimate end-user: A kid! With more and more emphasis on producing information and 'pushing' it out for consumption, a clearer understanding of what is needed by the user is becoming increasingly important. Presenting information in a way that the user can understand becomes very critical. An excellent example is that of a kid. In fact a kind, a young child, can be considered as an ultimate ennd-user of the information: Using a kid as an end-user of your information has two meanings – firstly, it means that there is a need to explain what you are disseminating easily so that even a kid can understand; secondly, kids are our future anyway! It may not be directly relevant to a kid - but the message should be easy enough so that even a kid can understand. And if we change the behaviour of a kid towards ssutainability, we are on our way to change the family's behaviour too! -------------------------------------------------- MONTHLY STATISTICS FOR GDRC'S WEBSITE Total hits encountered - 1,113,442 Total files downloaded - 952,899 Total pages viewed - 349,357 Total web visitors - 122,743 Total KBytes - 13,250,828 Pages per day - Avg: 11,269 Max: 16,651 Visits per day - Avg: 4,595 Max: 5,928 -------------------------------------------------- See what new items have been added to GDRC's website: http://www.gdrc.org/about/whats-new.html -------------------------------------------------- ABOUT GDRC MOSAIC The "GDRC Mosaic" is a monthly email newsletter that provides information bites, and summarizes programme activities of GDRC, including new items added to the website. You are welcome to forward this newsletter to friends and interested people! To subscribe or unsuscribe, please visit: http://www.gdrc.org/about/newsletter.html Comments/suggestions/contributions: mosaic@gdrc.org -------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ADDRESS: Global Development Research Center 1-5-1-1013, Mori Minami Machi, Higashi Nada-ku, Kobe 658-001, Japan Tel / Fax: +(81-78) 452-8414 Email: gdrc@gdrc.org Web: http://www.gdrc.org/ -------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 2008-2010, GDRC. All rights reserved.