Change yourself before changing the world

Inspiration

As the world is developing, mankind is changing the environment of our planet in a progressive but dangerous way. Water and air quality are being contaminated,15 billion trees are cut down each year, over 1 million birds and 100 thousand marine animals die from plastic pollution on a yearly basis. It’s not only due to manufacturing activities but also due to our lifestyle. Every day, we consume a ton of products, from cosmetics, clothes, to food packaging... It’s may hard for us to control everything since they are all our daily routine. Therefore, I have an idea to create a public place to raise some great and effective solutions in order to make a positive impact on ourselves and the environment.

What it does

I make a website on environmental issues. On the homepage, I put 4 pictures that are mixed among nice and bad environmental scenarios. Throughout these pictures, I want to convey a message that we need to take action to preserve the beauty of the world before our environment becomes even worse.
The website has five categories, each category refer to normal daily habits of people including of using cosmetic, eating, wearing clothes, throwing rubbish and the ability to reuse things.

How we built it

I care about the environment but I always feel it is a too big issue to be solved. It requires the attendance of many people to make a great impact. What and how to do it? After a long-time of thinking, I decided that website is a good solution because the website is a way to convey my message to many people and appreciate their attendance to develop more and more ideas of changing lifestyles.

Challenges we ran into

All of my best friends have other interests rather than the environment. They are interested in Korean films, music and do not care when I talk about my idea of setting a website on environmental issues. That’s why I have to take part in this project as an individual. Sometimes, the works are overloaded and I have to try a lot to overcome difficulties.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am proud of cherish from my best friends. They saw my demo and said that Oh, How nice and interesting is it! 

What we learned

I learn that sometimes life has some obstacles but when you overcome them, you feel stronger and have the desire and brave to set a bigger goal.

What's next for Change yourself before changing the world

I want this website just to be a start. I hope people not only change their lifestyle but also give more ideas to enrich this website. Each small contribution can together solve a big issue for the environment.