CarbonFun| What Is Our Carbon Footprint?
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What Is Our Carbon Footprint?
CarbonFun
Summary
Android application that monitors your carbon footprint based on transportation and energy consumption.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We developed a mobile app to raise awarness on how each individual impacts the environment with their carbon footpint. It monitors transportation activities and monthly energy consumption and calculates the carbon footprint based on a carbon footprint calculator formula.
The application requires a Google login. After the sign-in the user is redirected to the news feed page where he/she can see their friends activities with their carbon footprint. The application also offers a leaderbord with the users best carbon footprint, a statistics page with the carbon footprint around the World, Europe and Romania and a pofile page with all the user activities.
With ths application we hope to motivate people to go greener and raise awareness about the current carbon footprint.
How We Developed This Project
We started from the fact that we live in a very polluted and crowded city where there is an actual need of carbon emission reduction. Our aproach was to make a useful app which can also be fun. We chose to make a mobile app because everyone uses their phones more and more everyday and we implemented the application using Android and Firebase. For the login we chose Google so we can use their data in the future development of the app.
We succesfully developed the app, although we faced difficulties with finding satellite data.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
The data from satellites was used to plot statistics from Romania, Europe and around the World. In that way he hope we raise awarness on the fast growth of the carbon footprint in the past years.
Project Demo
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/142SzrWMAP_8Mqk4NC9RvYSWAwYxwyEjtrttgJtfTXU8/edit?usp=sharing
Project Code
Data & Resources
https://co2.myclimate.org/en/car_calculators/new
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions
http://www.globalcarbonatlas.org/en/CO2-emissions
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/