Ecolution
Team 13 is a group of international undergraduates that created the online platform Ecolution for the City of Munich Department of Labor and Economics to help motivate businesses to conintue reducing carbon emissions during a time of crisis. Ecolution aims to motivate, inspire, and connect businesses that want to reduce CO2 by providng support to existing and potential members of ECOPROFIT through a centralized platform.
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Problem Statement
The City of Munich set the goal of reaching climate neutrality in 2035. To reach this goal, Department of Labor and Economics wants a digital solution that will result lead to a measurable decrease in carbon emissions by motivating businesses to reduce their emissions during a time of crisis.
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Solution
Ecolution is an online platform that centralizes the tools for reducing carbon emissions. Participants can track their carbon emissions, visualize their progress, and boost their image as an environmentally responsible businesses all in one application. For instructions on how to use the Prototype, click here.
Visualization 
The inputted carbon data from the companies are used to generate user-friendly graphs to motivate companies to continue on their journey to carbon neutrality. Ecolution provides Dashboard that shows a summary of user’s carbon data and progress in carbon neutrality.
Visibility
Ecolution provides more visibility through the Participants page. Consumers and other businesses can search up companies based on their name, size, and industry, locate environmental friendly businesses with the map function, and see the awarded Ecolabels. The Ecolution EcoLabels provides consumer more information on the business’ progress to carbon neutrality and helps close the attitude-behavior gap of envionrmental conscious citizens. These are the three categories of awarded Ecolabels:
| % to Carbon Neutrality | Ecolution Leader | Registered Participants |
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Networking
Ecolutions aims to provide a stronger community of businesses working together to reduce industry carbon emission.The easy networking capabilities strengthens collaboration between participating businesses and makes it easier for users to share information on their implemented climate conscious strategies. Users can message representatives from other entities and ECOPROFIT and interact on posted articles.
Process
- Research: Research: To understand the scope of our challenge, we research existing measures for the current problem, ecological data, and verified statistics relevant to the problem. This narrowed our path to finding a viable solution for the City of Munich. More research was indulged in about Eco-Profit in order to utilize its full potential as well.
- Ideation:
To synthesize our research, our team created an Empathy Map to identify areas of opportunity. Using the empathy map, we brainstormed ideas and voted for the idea we wanted. A draft storyboard was created to display our solution idea before it was further developed with the help of feedback. Then a press release and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) were created to help the team think about what needs to be achieved with our prototype.
More details in Storyboard, Press Release, Stakeholder FAQs, Customers FAQ
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Prototype: The first prototype was created and demoed with businesses and consumers. The demo test provided feedback on how to improve in our second prototype, which increased its user-friendliness, added more clear definitions, and streamlined our core features.
- Business Model: Creating a Business Model canvas helped us identify how to make our pitch sustainable and more appealing.
GitHub Pages
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