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Community Ripple

If Every American Neighbor
Rippled Together

A data-driven model of the total economic, environmental, and safety impact of full US adoption of neighborhood group purchasing for home services.

๐Ÿ“Š 124M US households ยท $650B home services market ยท Full adoption model
Total Annual Homeowner Savings
$117B
saved every single year
18% avg group discount across the $650B US home services market ยท $900 back per household per year
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7.9M
Metric Tons COโ‚‚
Eliminated per year โ€” equal to removing 1.7M cars
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19.5B
Miles Eliminated
Contractor miles per year โ€” 40,000 trips to the moon
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$4.6B
Fuel Savings
1.3B gallons saved annually across US contractors
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235
Lives Saved/Year
Fatalities prevented โ€” NHTSA fatality rate applied
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14,500
Injuries Prevented
Serious road injuries avoided annually
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400M
Contractor Hours
Freed from driving โ€” 200K full-time work years
Miles between jobs
Without Ripple: ~20 miles avg
1.5mi
With Ripple โ€” 93% reduction
Trips per cluster of 5 homes
Without Ripple: 5 separate trips
1 trip
With Ripple โ€” 80% fewer trips
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19.5B miles eliminated Driving around the Earth 783,000 times โ€” or to the moon and back 40,000 times every year
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1.7M cars off the road The COโ‚‚ reduction equals permanently removing every car in Houston from US roads
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$117B homeowner savings More than the combined GDP of Wyoming, Alaska, Vermont, and Montana
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$900 back per household Nearly a full month of groceries returned to the average American family every year
10%
Early Adoption
$11.7B
homeowner savings/yr
23 lives
saved/yr
25%
Realistic Target
$29.3B
homeowner savings/yr
59 lives
saved/yr
50%
Strong Penetration
$58.5B
homeowner savings/yr
118 lives
saved/yr
100%
Full Adoption
$117B
homeowner savings/yr
235 lives
saved/yr