CONVID to plant

CONVID to plant| Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

Awards & Nominations

CONVID to plant has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

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.

Summary

With the pandemic, it is necessary to intensify sustainability on the planet, becoming more visible as the social inequalities we face. The greatest notorious concern for the group was the scarcity of food in certain families, in contrast to the waste of solid waste by another type of family profile. Our proposed solution is the construction of vegetable gardens and composters in different environments using organic agriculture, monitored by an interface design tool. In which he intended to build community gardens on the terraces of buildings, individual residences and public places.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We developed a sustainable project, in which the construction of vegetable gardens and composting plants in different environments using organic agriculture is monitored by an interface design tool. The construction of the vegetable garden and the composting system reduces the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, increases food awareness and contributes to the use of the composition in reducing food waste in everyday life.

How We Developed This Project

For the execution of the project, we carried out such activities: projection of the community garden on the building terrace using SketchUp; through Microsoft Excel species selection classification, planting months guidelines and we put pest control information for the use of organic agriculture and finally we programmed the Figma software for monitoring vegetable gardens and composting plants. Our proposal also addresses the use of composters for the production of biofertilizers. As it is sustainable, it presents several benefits and opportunities with the categories of the environment, social and economic, covering both families with unfavorable financial resources and those with better purchasing power, adopting measures that will complement the environmental education of the next generations. Among the benefits we can mention: minimizing the impact on the environment; production of healthy and quality food; food without synthetic fertilizers and pesticides; home gardens can be a source of extra income for people, either by selling organic cultivation or biofertilizer; production independence; optimization of time and therapeutics for planting and harvesting; favors environmental education in society, in addition to incredible landscaping. Regarding the achievements, we had good feedback from the mentors and our contact network.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We use information / data from the following media: GLOBE Observer application that helps the GLOBE Program community for scientific research on the terrestrial system, contributing to monitor the conditions of clouds, water, plants (trees and other ground cover) and observe changes throughout over time.

From the Lake Observations by Citizen Scientists & Satellites project that aims to better understand how the amount of water in the lakes.

From the JICA-JAXA Forest Early Warning System in the Tropics website, it presents the Forest Cover Change Map and the data on the deforested area, in addition to other available resources.

In addition to the cited bibliographic references, we also use:

NASA / Cory Huston. Radiation Tomatoes. (2020). <https://images.nasa.gov/details-KSC-20200110-PH-CSH01_0008>. January 10, 2020.

Wheeler, Raymond M. (2017). Agriculture for Space: People and Places Paving the Way. DOI 10.1515 / opag-2017-0002. Received December 14, 2016; accepted January 15, 2017.

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vr6agDFDhDf9ES4XVVW3VZ8Lyk67tezK/view?usp=sharing

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