CarbonTracker

There's an app for tracking calories, so why not one for tracking your precise carbon footprint? Thanks to CarbonTracker, you can log your daily activities and track you carbon emissions

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Inspiration

The inspiration for this project arose from the ever-prominent problem of climate change, and the need to provide people with factual data about their carbon footprint

What it does

This project tracks the daily activities of a user and, based on scientific data, calculates the carbon emission / reduction that were either a direct or indirect consequence of the user's chosen activity.

How we built it

We built it using the industry standard MERN stack: MongoDB, Node.js, Express, React.js

Challenges we ran into

Being a small team of 2 developers, it was hard to find extensive data for carbon emissions based on the actions of an individual, but that is a problem which would be easily solved if more time wasn't such a scarce resource

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made a platform that allows people to see how exactly their personal choices affect the climate change crisis

What we learned

We learned a lot about teamwork, collaboration, and data research

What's next for CarbonTracker

We believe CarbonTracker could have a genuine future, if a little more time is dedicated for the integration of data

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