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.

Sustaining Our Planet For Future Generations

Summary

Our project is the creation of a non-profit organization - Eco-Pass, which will collaborate with local authorities, businesses that will be interested in sponsoring our project, kindergartens, schools and universities, to communicate and achieve our goals. The goal is to fight air and environmental pollution, as well as deforestation or lack of green areas. The information that NASAs Worldview satellite, the soil researches, our Eco-Officers and volunteers will provide will be analyzed and provided on our website, and based on them events of tree-planting, cleaning up and other relevant activities will be organized by us. Rewards and participatory certificates for volunteers.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We are creating a non-profit organization that will take on the task of cleaning up the city through voluntary work and organized events for kindergarten/school/university kids. We are developing an online platform (Eco-Pass) that will:1) Contain the information from different sources (NASA, local or regional researches, data provided by citizens or our Eco-Officers) that will be examined, analyzed and put in an organized way so that it can be easily found and understood by our subscribers or volunteers to raise the awareness to the issue at hand; 2) Inform people about the current environmental situation, through comparison between cities, countries in the region, and in the world (all this in diagrams and statistics, as well as analytic reports), and the progress that will be made through our efforts;3) Inform and teach recycling and reuse of waste to people, so the culture of it can be widely implemented in our everyday lives.

This will be achieved through collaboration with: local authorities, which will allow us to organize such events and if necessary fund them; different local businesses - funding; Administrations of kindergartens, schools and universities that will assist us by informing their students about our events and making their participation part of their curriculum that will allow them to become Eco-activists (they could put in their resumes).

For kindergarteners: It would be beneficial for us and future generations to teach kids the importance of our eco-environment from an early age. This will be a first, but very essential step in ensuring our planets healthy future.

The teachers will organize little outings in parks where kids will help the volunteers or org. staff to clean up. The activity will have a playful nature and while it is possible that they might not actually make much difference, it will have the effect of cementing in their minds the relevance of the event, observe and develop ecological gestures, learn how recycling works and work hard to get reward stickers (leaf)! Positive reinforcement will further their motivation to do better.

Reward stickers: collaborative event between Eco-Pass, kindergartens and amusement parks ("Mtastminda Park" and Zoo-Park) administration, that will allow kids to get an outdoor excursion to the parks for a whole day, when they collect 5 leaf each (1 leaf sticker = 1 day). 

How We Developed This Project

We chose this challenge, because we think that environmental issue is one of the, if not the most attention worthy issue of today and it is essential that we take necessary steps to ensure cleaner and greener future for our future generations, otherwise we risk not only worsening of our surrounding nature or the air that we breath, but also the decline of our health. As explained by World Health Organization long-term exposure to polluted air can cause diseases : decrease of lung function, heart attack, asthma, bronchitis, cancer and others.  

Tools: NASAs data like the EOSDIS worldview platform, Earth Observatory, and their official site; Researches, such as Tengiz Urushidzes research on Georgian soil, which will allow us to know what kind of soil we are dealing with and which plant, more specifically which tree will be advisable for planting to make the area greener; People, And last, but not least elements of Artificial Intelligence.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

EOSDIS Worldview - NASAs satellite will provide us with over nine hundred global, full-resolution satellite imagery, that is daily updated. This Worldview platform provides information, among other things, about air quality and vegetation, which after analyzing will allow us to know which areas will need our attention: cleaning up, tree planting to make it green or sth else. 

NASAs Earth Observatory - to understand the levels of vegetation or deforestation around the world.

NASAs official website - that offers us maps that are daily updated and show us global view of health-sapping air pollution.

Tags
#environment #air #deforestation #green #nature #generations #ecology #eco #teamwork #greefuture #trees #planting
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.