MapEcos, a new web site launched by students and faculty at three leading U.S. business schools, has a highly ambitious premise -- nothing less than trialing for a new way of sharing detailed information about a key environmental issue, and seeing how people respond.

The site aims to help both members of the public in the U.S. and those interested from a business or other interested standpoint to learn more about industrial pollution, whether on their doorstep or in a city on the opposite coast.

It offers information on the environmental performance of more 20,000 industrial facilities across the country. Visitors use an interactive map to reveal government data on toxic pollution as well as information from the facilities themselves on what they are going to protect the environment, being gathered by the site's developers.

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