Frequently asked questions

What Is a GSS-3 3-Item Comparison?

GSS makes an environmental impact comparison between 3 unique items from the same category of items (e.g. 3 different brands of tires, 3 different brands of batteries, 3 different brands of liquid cleaners, etc.).

Mother Nature takes millions of years and thousands of generations to optimize her ecosystem processes.
Why not start your process today?

If you're a consumer/organization this comparison means what you'd be getting is useful to optimize your personal life or organizational operations today.

You are paying $99.95 Retail (or $49.95 plus 15 GSS Tokens) to get the GSS 3-Item Comparison results as soon as they are evaluated. Only one (1) Coupon code or Discount or Digital Token Redemption is available per order.

NOTE: Qualifed ShareNode Members can get the discount by using 15 GSS Tokens that they have already accumulated in their wallets. (Learn more about ShareNode here: https://www.sharenode.com/teamdynamo )

You pay to get

• The GSS-3 3-Item Comparison Summary Report, which is a summary of our analysis of over 30 different environmental impact metrics (this summary is also known as our Green Score).
   
• (in the future), when the comparison is completed,  a more detailed 'GSS 3-Item GSS-LCA Comparison' will be  available at an additional cost, where we compare/include the items' Green Score in these categories:
  • Energy,
  • Water,
  • Material,
  • Emissions and
  • Sustainability / Circular Economy
    (reuse, recycle, repurpose, disposal)

What You Get

You get the final summary relative comparison result for the 3 items (best, middle, worst).

(in the future): Additional environmental impact (EI) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) details can be obtained via your account online for an additional fee.

(in the future): The link to the detailed LCA report is revealed after the additional fee is paid and NDA is signed (based on manufacturers' IP requirements). You then receive a link to an explanation / detailed report.

About the Form

On the form itself, here's an explanation of the field names and detailed definition of what they mean:

The Fields are:

• Info About You:
  (we need to be able to contact you in case we have incomplete or conflicting results, based on your input)
  • Your Name
  • E-mail
  • Phone
     
• Info About the Items you want to Compare:

  • Product Category:

    • What category of product: e.g. TV, battery, tire, NAICS Code
       

• Item Info (Field Descriptions):

  • Product-1 Name/Model
    • The branded name and model ID code of the item
       
  • Manufacturer-1
    • The original source manufacturing entity of the item. This may not be the same as the brand name manufacturer.
       
  • UPC Code-1
    • The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbology that is widely used in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, in Europe and other countries for tracking trade items in stores.

       

  • QR Code-1
    • QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) first designed in 1994 for the automotive industry in Japan.
    • A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. E.g.: Wikipedia ‎QR code payment.
       
  • Quantity/Pkg-1
    • The number of items in the Package being sold
       
  • UOM-1
    • Unit of Measure (UOM) used to measure the number of items or amount of the product in the Package being sold (e.g. each, kilogram, litre, ounce, pound, gallon, etc)
       
  • Price-1 ($USD/pkg)
    • Retail Price in $USD per Package offered by the Retailer
       
  • MSDS ID-1 (SDS)
    • Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) ID or Safety Data Sheet (SDS) ID
    • NOTE: Knowing this REALLY HELPS us lock down what items you are actually comparing.
    • This is what companies use in the USA to help ensure worker safety.
    • All products sold in (or imported into) the USA are REQUIRED by Federal Law to have one of these!
       
  • Retailer-1
    • The name (or URL) of the retail company selling the item
       
  • Retailer SKU-1
    • The retailer's Store Keeper Unit (SKU) or stocking ID
       
• Contact GSS at  Support @ greenstarstandard.com  if you have additional questions.

SLCAs (or Sustainability Life Cycle Analysis) review, reveal and display a lot of common questions about your product, service, organization, or community. You get to choose how much or how little you wish to reveal to the world.

SLCAs allow your prospective clients, existing clients, employees, managers, investors and governments to quickly find answers to their questions without consuming your time.

To create SLCAs, click Contact and let us know that you're ready to Get Started Now.