Green Hacks

Currently, most applications that supplies users with different sustainability data require the person to actively make the choice to find out more of the environmental impact. This project focuses on the shopping situation, and in particular shopping for clothes, making this information available in a non-invasive way when just going through your usual routine when shopping for clothes.

The project used Kinect hardware to detect and track hand and torso movements, when twirling in front of the mirror or holding up a jacket out in the store, and shows the related data to this garment. By the movement done naturally in this situation these motions will trigger, display and flick through different information related to the garment, for example wherefrom the material have been sourced, how it was produced or which path around the earth it has taken to land in this store. We believe that such an installation may arise and help create awareness in an non-intrusive way.

APIs used: Sourcemap.com

Hackers: Can Kilicbay, Carolina Johansson, Dogan Yazar

Stockholm Green Hackathon

During the hack the Agro-Know team developed a module for OMEKA platform that allows the ingestion of environmental learning resources to the OMEKA repository and use of these resources in the generation of online educational pathways. To this end the team used the Solr-based search API of the Organic.Edunet SCAM system provided by MetaSolutions that allow search of resources in Organic.Edunet learning federation.

The demonstrated use case was a) to search for environmental learning resources in Organic.Edunet federation suitable for the development of educational pathways on the topic of sustainability & resource conservation, b) to annotate the ingested learning resources using the Natural Europe metadata Application Profile (AP) andc) to add these resources as supporting material in an environmental educational pathway.

Hackers: Giannis Stoitsis and Stavros Gkinis

The demo installation and the outcome of this session can be found here http://education.natural-europe.eu/green/admin/users/login (user: greendemo, pwd: greendemo).

Stockholm Greenhackathon 2011

A prototype of a web application that shows how it is possible to use Linked Open Data to show information about CO2 emissions. Our application allows to build a 4 ingredients recipe and returns three different kinds of data:

• A table that shows the emission of CO2 for each selected ingredient (from AMEE)
• Total Kilos of CO2 emission
• Literature from AGRIS: considering the selected ingredients, our application links to the OpenAgris triplestore to display journals articles and grey literature about the sustainability of those ingredients. Then, thanks to the power of OpenAgris, the user can access to other data sources, like DBPedia.

Hackers: Fabrizio Celli, Ahsan Morshed, Fredrik Enoksson, Mazars-Simon Quentin, Manoj Kale, Sriram Prasath

More info here

Stockholm Greenhackathon 2011

A “shopping decision tool” that reminds you to consume less when in doubt.

Hackers: Jorge Zapico

The project is available at http://ShouldIBuyThis.org (Source code: HTML+CSS)

Stockholm Greenhackathon 2011

A modification of Souremap system where the supply chain information was mashed up with public data from the UN to visualize the likelihood of child labor in each country involved in the manufacturing of a product.

Hackers: Leonardo Bonanni, Bianca Sayan.

More info at: http://blog.sourcemap.com/2011/10/visualizing-the-social-impact-of-supply-chains/

Stockholm Greenhackathon 2011

SourceQuest is a game that takes a Sourcemap and creates a narrative where different parts of the product have to be gathered. The graphics and interaction are inspired by vintage Carmen Sandiego games. The goals is to use the game to give attention on how complex the supply chains are.

Hackers: Niklas Lindström, Andrey Zhukov, Jorge Zapico, Bianca Sayan.

The project is released open source at github.

Available at Sourcequest.net

Stockholm Greenhackathon 2011