▲ 3 ▼ Calculating climate impact for everyday tasks
Every day tasks such as charging our smartphone to taking a flight leaves a carbon footprint thereby having an impact on the climate and environment. Some lesser than others, but even those with less carbon footprint for an individual can make large impact on the climate when entire population is considered.
I want easier ways to calculate carbon footprint and other things which impact the climate due to my regular activities. Current climate change, environmental awareness is all about shaming people for their actions rather than constructive ways to mitigate those actions.
I think better climate change awareness is the need of the hour, fulfilling the need gap of easier way to calculate our personal impact on climate could help that.
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Hello Bakshara, I've built a website, which partially addresses what is described here... at the moment it's minimal version, so it doesn't calculate carbon footprint for every single item - but I was planning to build such database. If the app gets some positive responses - I will definitely work on it more...
Currently aim is to promote sustainable lifestyle and boost environmental awareness (without shaming anyone :) )
have a look at www.bumi.club
and let me know what do you think about it!
Thanks,
Marcin
Hey, https://www.bumi.club is Nice! I assume the name is based on Bhumi (Earth) in Tamil language?
This is close to solving what I was telling in this problem.
Couple of suggestions,
Make email optional.
As soon as the answer for 'anything good' question is received move to climate action automatically (may be give some points already).
Do everything possible to make it fun and interactive; we know that peer pressure works from the #garbage and #teamtrees hashtag events.
Yes name of the app is chosen on purpose. Good catch :)
Thanks for feedback!