Inspiration: We as human beings are failing this world, our world is slowly dying, it is wildly polluted and no one is doing anything about it. Our team got together on the sole purpose of making a positive impact and contributing to combat this problem of climate change. Personally, I grew up in a household that made our environment a priority, my mother was very passionate about this and worked in environmental groups. This project is named after her and to honor her contributions, Project Keila.
What it does: Project Keila is climate change response campaign for crypto VCs and blockchain projects who are bitterly dissatisfied with opaque carbon credit systems that are not verifiable and requires a third party auditor. Our approach offers a simple, certifiable and scalable model with absolute data transparency that eliminates third-party auditors from the system and uncovers new business opportunities, mitigates risks and helps people make conscious decisions. Unlike traditional and other blockchain-based carbon credit systems Project Keila is an information-driven social impact platform that provides new eco-dynamic omni-chain products to combat climate change .
How we built it: We decided to make a NFT certificate for the trees consisting of the location, the tree serial numbers and all necessary details that can help the buyers identify their purchase. We also use chainlink oracles to load the off chain data about the actual carbon offsetting capacity of every tree and modify the current offset capacity of the certificate in real time, leading to full transparency.
Challenges we ran into: Getting the correct data integrated in our offset calculator. Also we had challenges including making oracle api requests with chainlink and configuring how to put the tree data on the blockchain, including putting GPS coordinates for each tree in the metadata.
Accomplishments that we're proud: Securing an agreement with the local government in Kashmir, India to plant trees on land. We also received a couple grants as well.
What we learned is: There is not a lot of accountability for whether the trees have actually been planted or not! What their current condition is and whether they are actually contributing towards carbon sequestration or not. We used this lack of transparency to make our product better by adding monitoring systems and certifiable data models.
What's next for Project Keila: We are having communities, DAOs, businesses and projects signing up and pledging in our waitlist. As we work on spreading awareness and pledges we will set to plant more than 1,000 - 10,000 trees during the harvest season in April 2023.
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