Motivation & Start

Let me be clear : I'm not a green crusader, nor a moral compass for doing good, nor an anti-meat-industry-activist. But I do feel partly responsible for the carbon and waste I produce to enjoy my comfortable life. While listening to the Kyoto resolutions of 2008, they said if the western world skipped meat for a week, the target of 20% less carbon emissions would be achieved instantly. This inspired me, if we as a social community combine all our efforts, eat a bit less over a year, we would achieve lost of good. How much is 20% spread out over a year? That's about 0.06% less per day? How difficult is that?

I had a clear idea, that the solution is less consumption and do it as community. I didn't pursue it back then, thinking someone somewhere is already doing it. I checked every year, seeing plenty of calculators and factsheets passing by, but no app that just shows what we as a group have achieved. All apps are focussed on the individual, but it's clear that this is not solvable one person.

And then there was Paris 2018, that just ticked me off. Really!! Agreeing on limiting global warming with 1.5 degrees instead of 2 degrees!! Yeah progress... Are you kidding me ☹️! Is this the best our world leaders can come up with!! Allowing the industry companies to keep on polluting our skies, fields and water, all for capital gains! Well as you can read, it fueled me. If the governments won't do it, if companies don't care doing it, we will have to take action, and do it Power to the People 📣📣📣

Roadmap for growth into a community

My first step was to build this site, which is more a proof of concept sort of thing. Are people willing to unite into a common statement? Will people support by sharing their individual achievements? If the answers prove to be “yes”, the next step is to add features such as member page, add a better calculator so the carbon saved data becomes more accurate. After that hope this will grow into a full-blown community where people, governments and companies join hands to move/grow towards a more balanced and sustainable environmental friendly lifestyle. The community would offers things like:
1. A place where our members can create profiles share and update their contributions/share ideas).
2. Challenge Apps so people can challenge themselves, friends or colleagues to achieve certain goals.
3. Info & message board where people can share useful information, tips, etc.
4. Projects & product board where people can share all green projects & product.