Bloom is a site dedicated to taking the guesswork out of reducing your individual carbon footprint. It acts as an all-in-one resource to:
- Calculating your carbon footprint based on individual or combined actions;
- Comparing your footprint to averages; making voluntary donations to environmental organizations based on balancing your carbon emissions;
- Having quick access to the current air quality and temperature in your area;
- Learning more about how you can lessen your own environmental impact via infographics and up-to-date news articles;
- And digging deeper into specific inqueries via our OpenAI-powered chatbot for all things climate change related, Bloom GPT.
Bloom is deployed and live at https://bloomv1.herokuapp.com/
- Current air quality/temperature: AirVisual (https://www.iqair.com/)
- Carbon emissions for calculator: Carbon Independent (https://carbonindependent.org/), Your Life In Data (https://www.yourlifeindata.com/) News articles: News API (https://newsapi.org/)
- Jorgen Paul (@JpBaer)
- Melissa Vaughn (@Meljska-Fawn)
- Brandon Ruano (@bruano95)
- Andrea Ginn (@andreaginn)