Artemis| Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

There is concern worldwide that environmental issues we face today will have an impact on future generations. Your challenge is to create a way to communicate the importance of environmental responsibility to people of all ages.

PROJECT ARTEMIS

Summary

We developed a website that aims to be a way for people to know the real impact of major environmental problems such as global warming, pollution, ice sheets melting, etc., through the use of NASA's maps and relevant information. It also aims to be a practical guide for people to know the actions they can take from home, and more specifically depending on the user's location we offer you information about recycling centers, green projects, and environmental care associations in its community through a database. We hope that through these webpage and community people will be encouraged to take action in order to save the world and that more and more people sum up to this project.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Today in Mexico our ecosystems are at alarming risk due to people's ignorance, lack of motivation and abuse of companies with ecosystems; that's why on our page we want more than to inform, we want to educate people, show them that taking care of the planet is beneficial for all of us, and motivate them to do things for it, because there are a lot of cheap or free actions we can take to help. Our page has different audience reaches, it has a section for children and young people - adults with a dynamic and understandable understanding. Also, we want all people to feel that they're part of this great movement, in order to do that, there are people who would be volunteers and their job will be to spread the word to those who don't have the source to get the information through internet. In addition, to sustain volunteers' expenses we would get money from donations and sponsors. Our website offers local solutions and contributions to reduce pollution and destruction of our ecosystems, for examples, recycling centers, not only for bottles and cans, but for books and a lot more things people don't know that could be recycled. We also put data on how to generate money, recycle and how people have given their lives to defend our nature.


How We Developed This Project

We were inspired to be able to contribute through technology to the awareness and action of current ecological problems and how to solve them. Video editing softwares (Filmora) were used for the realization of the gifs, wix website to create our own website. Some of the first difficulties we had was when we wanted to use google maps; Since the code was fine but it had a watermark, another difficulty we had was when we wanted to implement NASA's WorldWideWeb but it could not be because our browsers did not match to be able to implement it.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

The resources available through the NASA space data agency have been used as a visual complement for the webpage that has been designed. Through this resources, the webpage shows high quality satellite pictures as well as a variety of trustworthy graphs and charts. These permit a better appreciation of the way our planet has changed throughout the course of time. Apart from that, the use of real time updating maps, which are available through the database, allow the webpage to illustrate the regions where climate change is affecting life, in manners such as deforestation and the ice sheets melting.


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#sustaintable #takeAction #assistant
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.