Carbonops : Environmental Awareness Project

A 💻 web application for creating personalized accountancy towards our🌲environment among 🤝‍🧑 people.

Problems Addressed:

Creating environmental awareness among people is crucial as individuals often overlook the significance of their carbon footprint and the environmental impact resulting from their daily activities.
People who are interested in transitioning to sustainable products and practices often lack awareness about the available alternatives and the organizations that are actively developing practical eco-friendly solutions and products.
Numerous startups depend on specific types of waste generated by the general public, but many individuals who wish to contribute to the production of these products lack a suitable platform. Moreover, the quantity and quality of waste are further compromised due to the multiple intermediaries involved in its transportation and disposal.
We often underestimate the power and impact of events in driving aspects of life, such as environmental protection. These events serve as convergence points for blending natural and modern scientific methods to adapt and implement strategies for safeguarding the environment.
Although we have lots of social media platforms, but hardly few dedicated to recognizing and appreciating individuals actively involved in this sphere of work.

Features:

The site will have two portals:

1) Individual Users

Incorporating carbon footprint calculators to see how actions in everyday life can affect climate change.
They will have a personalized dashboard or portfolio where they can keep a watch over themselves and pat their backs for everyone positive effort they put.
Users will get timely notification to update their carbon score.
Giving users the ability to monitor their carbon footprint progress. Questionnaires to determine a user’s personal and unique carbon score to understand how much CO2 they are producing.
Depending on score, we can have recommendation system to help a user with personalized recommendations where one is lagging in their efforts.
A social media sharing option can allow users to post their carbon scores.
People can participate in/ host Monthly/ Weekly events or go green challenges and see who can go most sustainable. They can also win awards and badges.

2) Eco-friendly startups

An interface where people/organisations can buy raw materials or products directly from the startups.
People can donate/sell the waste products directly to eco-friendly startups utilizing those specific materials.
Featured profiles of startups on the basis of ratings of products and impact.

Objectives:

This app aims at creating environmental awareness among people. The app will educate people on the steps they can personally take to reduce their carbon footprint and will help to bring together environment-conscious people where they can start a discussion.
The app will acquaint users with information about various eco friendly alternatives they can use and will act as an easy medium to access those alternatives.
It will be easier for startups to access the materials required easily and will help them scale up their business at a faster rate.
A substantial amount of usable waste will not be lost because the waste will be already segregated.
People will get to know about various incentives that are being taken up by those companies and this will advertise environmentally sustainable products and will bring off the objective of the app.
Will introduce a sense of support and appreciation to those working to reduce the impact of human usage on the environment.
Summarizing everything, this platform is for carbon footprint calculator, recommendation system, waste exchange platform, product marketplace, and event organization.

Wanna know how the flow of all records is being planned in the app?🤔 Do have a look below

Database ER diagram:

Click here to checkout the ER diagram.

Target audience:

All

Project constraints:

Requires basic knowledge of environmental issues and carbon footprint.
Requires the will and efforts of the users.

Languages and Tools:

We're thrilled that you'd like to contribute to this project. Your help is essential for keeping it great. Please note we have a Code of Conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.

Setting up the project:

This documentation contains set of guidelines to help you during the contribution process. Contributing Guidelines

Fork this repoistory using Github GUI.
Clone the project in your PC
Change the directory to project's directory.

cd ./Carbonops-v2

Install the dependencies

npm install

Set up a .env file
- Add relevant credentials in the .env file with the help of .env.example file.
Start the development server

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the app up and running 🎉🥳🎊.

Documentation:

Having issues in understanding the codebase?

Then head over to documentation, give yourself some time and please comeback to contribute.

Checkout the Next.js documentation here

Checkout the Oauth documentation here

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