The Project arises from the need of helping our planet in spite of those circumstances that we created as environmental pollution, glaciers melting, deforestation as well as burning of forestlands, oil spills and a long etc.

One of the bases for this proposal is focused on what the ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) stated in 2015. Then it was put forward a reduction of the personal carbon footprint estimated at that time of 6,8 tons per capita per year, to 5 tons in order to avoid the increase of 2°C of the global temperature or to 3 tons to keep it bellow 1,5°C, all these before the year 2030. Up to now, not only these proposals have not been fulfilled but also it is being more difficult to fulfill them, since statistics get worse. For instance, disposals are not treated at all in many places making their increase in tons as well as the pollution and therefore the carbon footprint. Another important fact stated was that Latin America and the Caribbean region are more susceptible to the climatic change and its socio-environmental effects. Even when these countries are less developed and therefore less contaminating, they suffer in a greater extent the damage of this situation.

This project will contribute a little bit on the society to make people become conscious as regards his/her individual emission in order to help to reduce it. A good example of this would be: If a person needs to move in the space, it should be advisable to let him/her know the most eco-friendly way to do it. Thus, sharing a vehicle with some neighbor of the zone or using a bicycle, instead of using a car for only one person would be the correct option. 

Green Spot is a scalable and iterative project through stages which are based on an informatics digital system with access via internet to its web page server. We can find in it mainly information over different types of users, products and services.

Users can be authenticated customers in the platform or invited customers, business that fulfill with a series of requirements like being ecologically sustainable which offer products to the first category of users and which can be members of a third category called users servers. These ones are in charge of providing ecological services to the other two types of users and they should be verified by administrators as well as businesses. At a first stage, the only service available is the logistics and recollection of plastic bottles and of recycling materials provided by ourselves.

Every category of users is differentiated among them by the fact of owning different permissions to carry out actions in the platform, like adding comments, rate stores, etc.

The main function of this page is to seek available and ecological or “green” products and stores. This function is the basic and common permission for all categories, i.e. any user can use it. The search can even be filtered by different parameters according to the user`s desire (price or range of prices for the store, category and subcategory of product, rating, economic services, ecologic services, localization and labels).

“Source: GREEN SPOT Web Version”

Customer users have the capability of asking for services and booking at stores, make comments of products, stores and services and at the same time punctuate them to infer in their rating system. Besides they will produce private complaints to products or services stores.

Users businesses can create, modify and eliminate products, add categories, ask for affiliating services, comment and punctuate services.

Services can accept or reject affiliation requests to businesses and of works to customers.

Another function available is the graphic and statistical representation of the individual carbon footprint (either person or business) for all users, except “invited customers”. Thus, the user can see how his/her practices increase or reduce the environmental pollution. This is so, since the page evaluates different data introduced by the users to GREEN SPOT, let say: recycling, daily routines, etc, and it compares them, obtaining the final result of the balance pollution-sustainability.

“Source: GREEN SPOT Movile Version”

The system will be developed in languages and tools such as:

• JavaScript
• CSS
• HTML
•  Ionic
•  Android Studio
• PHP
• MySQL Database
• Oracle Database
• Angular
• Apache

For the presentation we used:

• Prezi
• proto.io
• Vegas Pro 16.0
• Canva

Our main challenge was to create this Project in the limited time of 48 hours.

It was achieved a graphical interface minimally functional in the web page and mobile application. Furthermore, the web page was connected with the data base but it was not used in more than one page and the result of requests in the implemented pages was not stylized. The mobile application was implemented only at graph level.

We use the information provided by the NASA to collect specific and updated data over the environmental impact, environmental pollution, human behaviors and their effects over the environment and the sustainability, besides we obtain spatial photos that serve us to show how the environmental impact that we are mentioning is seen.

https://youtu.be/xVd4h6O9Fco

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html

https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change?id=713#713-growth-of-cancn,-mexico

https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change?id=591#591-older-thicker-arctic-sea-ice-declines

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/988/new-un-report-humans-responsible-for-climate-change/

https://www.nationalgeographic.es/medio-ambiente/2017/07/el-91-por-ciento-del-plastico-que-fabricamos-no-se-recicla

https://climate.nasa.gov/causas/

https://www.futuro360.com/desafiotierra/imagenes-nasa-contaminacion-eeuu_20200409/

https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change?id=372#372-urban-growth-tucson,-arizona

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/