Footprint

Inspiration

Raise awareness and consciousness of environmental impact of peoples purchasing choice

use feedback to drive producers to improve and provide greener products

How it works

Big data analytics of life cycle data for products used with uniquely generated environmental score. Score for products is available via mobile app and API to shopping sites to consumer

Datset include manufacturing processes, transportation and materials considerations

Data - feedback is collected and used to drive companies and manufacturers to provide green products

Challenges I ran into

Dataset availability

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

formulated overall concept, plan for moving forward to meet data-set challenges

able to design basic functional app, more work to do

What I learned

its not really done yet because the data challenges are hard!

What's next for Footprint

Continue working, select clear focus for first product type, i.e. shoes, tap into known green manufactures and EPA for beginning data set access.