Homes are difficult to manage, never mind renovate. From changing a lamp fixture to taking a sledge-hammer to the wall, the most difficult part of home ownership is not the implementation but the decision making process.
Choosing the right equipment, system, insulation, or even paint can be emotionally taxing, ethically burdening, and monetarily strenuous. These worksheets are to help clarify the options, document the choices for ease-of-reference, and create a neat log of the house for future use.
At the end of the process, you will have many worksheets that will be compiled into a folder (either electronically or as hard copies). Every possible option you stumbled upon should be documented to avoid doing the same research twice.
Each category—Earth Care, Fair Share, and People Care—will take you through a series of questions based on the element's ethical value. The best elements will answer “Yes” to all three Ethics. If the element challenges a certain ethic it is answered “No.” However, the element may have other aspects that still make it appealing; or, there may be no other alternatives.
Avoid using the element – find an Alternative
Alleviate the negatives – find an Atonement
Accept the negatives – find an Additional Action.

-If you have an Alternative element that is more suited to this ethic, note it and mark Avoid.
-If there is another element that could offset the negatives, mark Alleviate and note the Atonement(s).
-If there are aspects of the element that provide additional functions other than the primary purpose or if the element is a back-up for other elements with a similar function, mark Accept and note the Additions/ Actions. This is important for resiliency and redundancy.

At the end of the worksheet, click "Publish Form". This will save your information for each element of your house in one place. You can analyze what percentage of your elements are ecologically responsible, healthful, and financially viable. You can also track which elements relate to each other or act as backups.