How to Enter the Instructables, Popular Science, and TreeHugger "Go Green!'' Contest

Step 2 How we judged the Go Green contest

We judged the contest with range voting. Members of Instructables, Popular Science, and Treehugger were invited to vote using a ballot with the following instructions:

Please vote for as many Instructables as you like. There are 4 pages to this ballot. Please enter your username and email on each page of the ballot.

A vote of "9" indicates that the project should win. A vote of "1" indicates that the project should not win. A vote of "no opinion" does not affect a project's standing.

The winners will be determined by range voting described here and here.

Please enter your Instructables username. Your vote will not be public; the fact that you voted will be public.

Please enter the email address associated with your Instructables account. We will use this to authenticate your vote.

As in the Olympics, the average score is the final determinant for each project. All projects with more than 50% of the potential maximum score are listed below, sorted by average score.

Instructable - Total score - Number of votes - Average score - Percent of maximum score - Standard deviation
Hydroponic Bog Garden (Water Recycling) - 94 - 12 - 7.83 - 92% - 1.0
Bicyle Power for Your Television - 101 - 13 - 7.77 - 99% - 1.4
How to MAKE PV Solar Panels - 87 - 12 - 7.25 - 85% - 1.3
Solar Thermal Water Heater For Less Than Five Dollars - 100 - 14 - 7.14 - 98% - 1.7
Portable 12V Air Conditioner --Cheap and easy! - 100 - 14 - 7.14 - 98% - 1.2
Geodesic Dome Greenhouse - 78 - 11 - 7.09 - 76% - 1.3
Hack a Toilet for free water. - 91 - 13 - 7.00 - 89% - 1.9
Build your own flat panel solar thermal collector - 73 - 11 - 6.64 - 72% - 1.4
The Wind-up Headboard Reading Light - 59 - 9 - 6.56 - 58% - 1.6
Recreate a Vanishing Ecosystem : The Eastern Vernal Pool - 91 - 14 - 6.50 - 89% - 1.5
Grow organic food without spending $ - 78 - 12 - 6.50 - 76% - 2.1
Composter (Drum Style) - 69 - 11 - 6.27 - 68% - 1.3
Cart Bike - 69 - 11 - 6.27 - 68% - 1.6
Make an Evaporative Terra Cotta Beer Chiller - 75 - 12 - 6.25 - 74% - 1.4
Free Air Conditioning - 62 - 10 - 6.20 - 61% - 2.7
How to save water in gardens and small-holdings: the Scrooge Bottle. - 61 - 10 - 6.10 - 60% - 1.4
Need Free Water? Build a Rain Barrel - 61 - 10 - 6.10 - 60% - 1.7
Universal Solar Charger - 79 - 13 - 6.08 - 77% - 1.3
Let\'s go green! Build a Solar Powered Parabolic Cooker! - 102 - 17 - 6.00 - 100% - 1.2
Cozy Low-Energy Shower - 54 - 9 - 6.00 - 53% - 2.3
Make/recycle your own paper! - 58 - 10 - 5.80 - 57% - 1.6
Wooden Wedge Bike - 85 - 15 - 5.67 - 83% - 2.4
Green Roofed Dog Veranda - 61 - 11 - 5.55 - 60% - 2.1
Make Potato Plastic - 88 - 16 - 5.50 - 86% - 2.6
Make your own onestringbag - 55 - 10 - 5.50 - 54% - 2.4
Modify your gas hot water tank for super efficiency - 54 - 10 - 5.40 - 53% - 1.8
Rayovac LED Lantern Conversion - 79 - 15 - 5.27 - 77% - 1.5
Organic feriliser from kitchen refuse - 52 - 10 - 5.20 - 51% - 1.1
Tire Sandals - 57 - 11 - 5.18 - 56% - 1.5
Drinking Glasses from Wine Bottles - 65 - 13 - 5.00 - 64% - 2.5
How to save water by showering navy style - 74 - 15 - 4.93 - 73% - 1.8
Brownbag Popcorn - 64 - 13 - 4.92 - 63% - 2.8
Recycled Envelopes - 68 - 14 - 4.86 - 67% - 2.3
CD Spindle Earring Stand - 68 - 14 - 4.86 - 67% - 2.1
Compact Fluorescentize Your House - 66 - 15 - 4.40 - 65% - 1.8
Going Green! A couple things you can do to help the environment. - 60 - 14 - 4.29 - 59% - 1.9
Save electricty with your computer - 58 - 14 - 4.14 - 57% - 2.1

Comments

[LowEnergy]

Here's the main results page, for your convenience in navigating back there.

[ewilhelm]

Oh, yeah; should have included that. Thanks!