How The Project Addresses This Challenge
The project demonstrates the impacts that are taking place around the world due to the reduced human traffic in local environments. It showcases the animals that are coming out in the open cities finding it less crowded with an interactive map that documents news all over the world geographically . Because of limited access to the parks and the beaches huge impacts are being observed like the Dolphins swimming in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh after about 30 years, the project demonstrates these impacts . The project also demonstrates the links between reduced human traffic in natural environments due to COVID-19 with positive impacts on existing environmental conditions using NASA's satellite Data and research papers that show reduction in air pollution and carbon emission . Moreover the project website collects data from the users with small surveys which can be used in further research work. The project inspires people to think and support Green Economy and there is also a public forum created in the web-page to interact with the users and grow a huge community to share ideas and research proposal in support of this new perspective supporting biodiversity and green economy which will help to collect data to execute research regarding the green economy.
Future Plan
The future plan is to is to grow the website so that we can create a huge research community to study this positive impacts and find a way to hold on to the positive impacts even after the time of pandemic. I also plan to convert the website to an organisation where researches will be conducted and publish research journal with the innovative ideas of implanting green economy and work along side UN in providing consultations to the countries for redesigning the economy. This would require huge assistance of NASA's datasets as well.
What inspired the project
The news of Dolphins being sighted in the empty beaches of cox's bazar led me to think how this pandemic is being such a gift to the wild-life . Also there were many news all over the medias about how nature is blooming in the crowded and busy cities of Bangladesh as the human remained restricted to move around due to the lock-down. All these inspired me to think for a solution which resulted in this project .
How I approached
First I did a thorough research and collected all the news regarding the biodiversity, animals roaming freely around the cities and improvement in the climate. I used NASA's Earth Observatory for scanning through information about NO2 and CO2 emission decrease and collected all this data to put it in a website.
Tools and software
I used google maps to create the customized map to document the news of the animals geographically so that it is easy to explore. I used HTML to create the website and also used Weebly and Porkbun to design it. Also a web-tool named forumotion was used to create the forum then was embedded .
Problems and Achievement
The problems were mainly to collected and sort out the data and putting it together keeping all things linked together. But the achievement is far greater, now I have a platform where the idea is described and people can participate in sharing ideas which might help to grow a huge community and we maybe able to establish green economy!
Project demonstration video link (please use headphones for the sound) : https://youtu.be/_IEUbqXdrxg
View The Whole Project : https://alohomora.co/index.html
I used NASA's data to back up my reasons about the effect in climate due to less human activity and pollution. I mainly used three resources