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.

Save our Earth

Summary

Our project solves the problem of Earth planet deterioration resulted from human activities. The project’s role is to convey a message to different generations to keep their environment clean and safe for the next generations. The idea of our project is to spread awareness among people through untraditional ways that they are bored of. Nowadays, billions of people are using internet, so we find it a good way to introduce our idea to different generations through a website that is designed to match all generations’ thinking. New ways of awareness are used in this website to convince people with their responsibility and role to save their lives through preserving the environment.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Over the past years. All the generations make a great effort to be “Eco-Friendly” with the environment and try to save it from the variety of challenges that faces every day. Either its naturally or artificially. Such as loss of Biodiversity and marine pollution. Unfortunately, Man-made causes of biodiversity loss and marine pollution in different ways including (- Climate change - Pollution on land, in air and water- - Habitat destruction and degradation: mining, agriculture, settlement, industries, highways, and construction being primary examples. -Over-exploitation-Recreational hunting and collecting- -Marine pollution through the oil spill -Marine pollution through industrial chemicals….). the worst is lying in the consequences of all these challenges and its effect on the human and the environment.

So, what we are we waiting for? Why there is no specific solution found? However, the great efforts that have been done a long the past generations within its diversity, they couldn’t find an actual solution.      Hold on! If you focus you will discover that there is a new problem facing us which is the diversity of the generations. As a result of that, it's so difficult to communicate with each other and try to exchange ideas and that explains why there is no solution and we couldn’t achieve our goal of saving the earth.

All of that was totally true until our team establishes the “Save Our Earth “website which raises a motto of “Global Generations are gathered to save the earth” which achieve our main goal through main points which are:

•“Save Our Earth” website aims to shape the future.

•connect between different generations through different ways of awareness that can fit everyone’s needs.

•Allow the generations to exchange ideas, approaches, and make a comparison between modern and old machine tools and methods.

•Provide a scientific and entertaining way for kids that help them understand the importance of saving the environment, how should they deal with it an at the same time enjoy watching videos 

•Teaching children how to respect the environment and providing the kids the opportunity to share their experience and show us how they help the environment by sending videos of them via our email and we will publish it on the website. So, it will spur the other kids to make the environment a better place and save the world. 


Parts of the website: website is divided into different parts that fit every generation's needs. It starts by:

•Mission of the website

•Some general and important information about the environment such as (recycling water- habitat model- organic garden)

•Message from the old generation to all the latest generations to show them that our difference is the source of creativity and together we can make difference and save the earth 

•Old approach: a 2010 environmental disaster with its consequences and how they dealt with it in the past.

•Updated approach: a message that summarizes the article for the new generation

•Modern approach: TED videos for adults who love watching more than reading.

•Latest approach (kids department): scientific and entertainment videos and competitions, so they can enjoy, understand, and participate via the site.

In conclusion “Save our Earth” website is a versatile website where you can find everyone's needs and you can access any category that you want. So you can connect with different generations, find different ways of awareness, and achieve our aim to save the environment.

How We Developed This Project

If there is no sustainability, there will be no life, so it is an important challenge to keep our world for the next generations. We have studied sustainability concept, so we are aware about the importance of saving Earth planet and we know well our responsibility towards our environment. Our approach development depends on choosing new ways of awareness that are more effective than traditional ones such as telling people about old disasters stories to avoid being as those destroyed nations and to know that any harm, they cause to the environment has a direct or indirect impact on them. The tool that we use to introduce our project in the best way is a website that is divided into categories to be useful for different generations. The obstacle that faced me and my team is to find a suitable communication method with different ages to allow them all to make advantage of the project but we could overcome this problem through gathering various ways of awareness in one website that presents the advice as messages for the elderly, animations for kids, and variety of videos and stories for youth not to get bored.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

The database which was provided by NASA agency was too helpful to us, it helped us in understanding the categories and our challenge because the information was well-sequenced and well explained.

We also searched in the data of NASA agency about different Earth problems that hinder sustainability such as fire carbon emissions that are released during the burning processes done by humans. NASA agency also provides us with knowledge about the importance of environmental sustainability. It provided us be some important information about how to connect between all the generations.

Project Demo

https://www.slideshare.net/secret/eNkgHHrdvHQW3F

Data & Resources

https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/top-25-environmental-concerns.php

https://www.fastcompany.com/3049540/5-ways-to-convince-people-to-actually-do-something-about-climate-change

https://www.gvi.co.uk/blog/how-to-cultivate-environmental-awareness-in-schools/

https://youtu.be/-daTihsMPmc

2016. Earthcomm. 2nd ed. Alexandria, VA: It's About Time, Inc.

Tags
#sustainability, #saving Earth, #generations, #diversity ،#environmental disasters #biodiversity #marine pollution
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.