When you shop online there are a number of things you think about before purchasing an item: price, quality, the time it will take to arrive, etc. But very few people consider the impact this purchase has on the environment -- the product's carbon footprint. Footprint is a browser application that allows you to compare products based on their carbon footprint while shopping online and gives you an opportunity to offset the carbon cost of your purchase with a carbon offset.
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Requirements:
- Install Pyhton 3
- Install django (
pip intall django) - Install requests (
pip install requests) - Install lxml (
pip install lxml) - Install numpy (
pip install numpy) - Install scipy (
pip install scipy) - Install nltk (
pip install nltk)
Start Server:
- From the commandline, navigate to the "footprint_server" folder
- Start the server with
python manage.py runserver
- Open Google Chrome
- Go to your Extensions
- Click "Load Unpacked"
- In the opened file explorer, navigate to the Footprint folder and open "plugin"
- Verify that Footprint now shows up as an extension