<u>Revisiting the Solution</u>
What's Ecosia?
Ecosia is a search engine created by a purpose company, that invests all profits into the purpose of planting trees. A:R envisions an open source search engine module that allows Ecosia like purpose companies to generate funds and invest them into their purpose.
The great thing is that tracking (oversight) is done by the purpose foundation, albeit a direct feedback on how Your search engine input has made a change (CO2 sequestered, food produced, CO2 saved, animals fed,…) would be valuable. implementing a track & verify layer via the Cardano ledger is a very nice to have.
What's a circular economy?
An economy where the output feeds the input. Once initially set in motion it runs perpetually.
Creating closed loop systems powering circular (doughnut/donut) economies is the only way forward.
Why Algae?
Blue-green Algae (BGA) are so called superfood can prevent cardiovascular (CVD) and fatty liver diseases
- BGA are nutritious natural products rich in essential amino acids, γ-linolenic acid (GLA), fibers, B vitamins, calcium, phosphorous, iron, pigments such as β-carotene, xanthophylls, and chlorophyll, and other bioactive compounds.
Studies have indicated that BGA have antiviral, antitumor, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiallergic, antidiabetic, and antibacterial properties as well as lipid-lowering effects. In particular, inhibitory effects of BGA on hyperlipidemia, inflammation, and oxidative stress can contribute to the prevention of the development of cardiovascular diesase and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
In order to maintain a hospitable planet we need to collectively tackle issues like growing populations and dwindling resources and food supplies.
Our team is collaborating with Algae Token. We're fully supporting their Sustainable Solution Hub proposal by connecting academic researchers from the university of Naples to the hub, providing podcast content and guests. The Sustainable Solutions Hub will use the FOSS funding mechanism to make the hub sustainable in an organic way.
Furthermore we're exploring ways to form a distributed launchpad for SDG driven purpose companies and cooperatives that work with microorganisms to create circular economies.
The cooperation with Algae Token and other microorganism focused projects will most likely continue and hopefully will result in something like a globally distributed microorganism foundation.
<u>How does this fit into the OS dev eco system?</u>
- motivational alignment of Cardano4Climate and OpenSource communities
- alternative funding mechanism for purpose companies & cooperatives, usually build on OS tech
- collaboration of activism, idea generators and developers is key
- 1st collaboration with Algae Token already confirmed, collaboration with Spiralway currently being explored as well
Biggest challenge is finding a developer that works within the budget.
Biggest risk is not attracting enough "prosumers" to engage with the search engine.