Accomplishments
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2023-present: Constructed a web site for Recycling Advocates of Middle Tennessee (RAM) , to better utilize RAM's knowledge and experience in building Urban Cruise Ship's Waste site. RAM had the best methodology among environmental groups, but did not have its material online. Currently, RAM's web site is about half-complete. Mostly, it still lacks upgraded graphics and curated submissions.
2023-present: Created Urban Foot Notes , a project of Urban Cruise Ship -- a first-of-its-kind comparative quantification of how easily a resident at a given address can live without a car. After 1 1/2 years of development, it is presently being tested, ranking a variety of addresses. Soon hopefully it will be used by clients to assess their own addresses' pedestrian friendliness.
2023-present: Broadness of both topic and solution coverage has reached the point where Urban Cruise Ship's web site is the best starting point we know of for students, counselors, and school administrators to use to select majors, curricula, and research topics in environmental fields.
2022-Present: Produced eleven exemplary handouts, which employ data presented graphically, and use no opinionated messaging in text form apart from labels and titles. Our  Publications  page has these, grouped, for viewing and/or printing.
2022: Produced the first trajectory-styled projection of progress toward producing energy without the use of fossil fuels (see Electricity Production Forecast and Energy Production Forecast handouts). This lessens the distractive clutter and lack of achievability rationale (and accompanying puzzlingly wide variations) associated with forecast (or scenario)-based presentations used extensively previously by numerous other organizations.
2021-Present: As of November 13, 2024, 118 of our over-220 solutions contain at-least-mostly-full sets of estimates.  The combined totals are $8.24 trillion U.S. dollars per year in costs, $16.3 trillion U.S. dollars per year in benefits, 45.94 billion tons of carbon dioxide-equivalents per year of greenhouse gas reduction, and 82 million square kilometers of habitat preserved. For context, World annual GDP is roughly $100 trillion U.S. dollars per year, humans are likely currently emitting in the vicinity of 55 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per year, and the entire earth's surface area is slightly more than 510 million square kilometers.
2020-Present: Created and developed Comparative Progress Studies - a subfield of Progress Studies, as a contextual comparison for solutions' cost-benefit metrics. These now-78 historic human endeavors are presented both together, and divided into 8 topical subcategories. They are also presented both alone, as a historical comparative record, and combined with Urban Cruise Ship's now-over 110 solutions. Each is presented both graphically, and in rankable interactive tables, on our History site. This can aid advocates' choice-making and use of precedent, and policymakers' funding prioritization.
2018-Present: Over 750 graphic exhibits have been constructed, with data and analysis sufficient to identify over 220 problem-solution sets, with details presented in a standardized format, in drop-down boxes. Others can use this to independently develop high-quality solutions easier as well. Such competition with Urban Cruise Ship's own solution development should improve collective quality.