What Is Our Carbon Footprint?
SKY0
Summary
Focussing on four key parameters, power plants, refineries, population density and automobile emissions, with data from the HIFLD Geoplatform and the Federal Highway Administration, we've built a weighted and summarised list of US States, ranked in an ordinal manner, displaying individual measurable contribution to carbon emissions. Further combining this with a ranked list of annual CO2 emissions from the US Energy Information Administration, weighing both of these lists as 30-70, we provide a final ranked list of states according to their carbon footprint.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Reducing our carbon footprint, while absolutely the responsibility of governments and organizations, is also an individual duty. Having acute, accessible, and easy to digest knowledge of the information regarding the same is a small step in that direction.
Looking through the individual layers allows individual citizens to realise the extent to which they contribute to the carbon footprint of their state, and our information section provides simple and realistic measures to further lead a greener, cleaner life.
How We Developed This Project
We took important and meaningful data, data with the capacity to catalyze discussion, dialogue, and ultimately, change, from archives and data banks to easily accessible and understandable maps with our project.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Using NASA's references and resources, we were able to access data from the HIFLD datasets and APIs to create a comprehensive, reliable, and transparent ranking system.
Project Demo
https://github.com/siddkataria/SKY0