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First, run the development server:
npm run dev
# or
yarn dev
# or
pnpm dev
Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.
You can start editing the page by modifying app/page.tsx. The page auto-updates as you edit the file.
See something. Make a difference.
A crowdsourced environmental intelligence platform that turns everyday observations into community action and useful environmental data.
Users can report environmental conditions around them, discover volunteer opportunities, help confirm community observations, and voluntarily contribute anonymized data for environmental research.
Environmental problems happen everywhere, but much of what happens around us is never documented.
Someone notices smoke in the distance.
Someone sees a pile of trash in a park.
Someone discovers polluted water.
Someone notices flooding.
Someone sees an injured animal.
Most of these observations disappear after the person walks away.
This platform turns those small observations into useful information.
┌─────────────┐
│ OBSERVE │
│ │
│ See an issue│
│ Take a photo│
│ Report it │
└──────┬──────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────┐
│ UNDERSTAND │
│ │
│ Community │
│ reports │
│ + │
│ AI grouping │
└──────┬──────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────┐
│ ACT │
│ │
│ Volunteer │
│ Nonprofits │
│ Community │
└──────┬──────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────┐
│ RESEARCH │
│ │
│ Aggregated │
│ environmental│
│ data │
└─────────────┘
Users can report observations including:
Reports can include:
A dedicated crisis interface allows users to quickly report urgent environmental events.
Examples include:
The crisis flow is intentionally faster than the standard reporting workflow.
Multiple people may report the same event independently.
For example:
Person A → Smoke reported
Person B → Smoke reported
Person C → Fire reported
Person D → Smoke reported
Person E → Smoke reported
↓
AI grouping
↓
Likely related incident
↓
"Wildfire / Smoke Event"
5 reports
The application uses AI-style grouping to demonstrate how individual observations can become larger environmental incidents.
The system intentionally describes these as likely related rather than claiming certainty.
Users can explore environmental observations around them.
The map supports:
Users can select individual reports or grouped incidents for additional information.
Users can discover nearby ways to help.
Opportunities can be filtered by:
Examples:
The platform can connect nearby volunteer opportunities with environmental issues reported by the community.
Organizations can use the platform to:
The hackathon demo uses seeded/mock organizations rather than requiring real nonprofit integrations.
Community observations can become a valuable source of aggregated environmental information.
Researchers can request datasets based on:
Example:
Region:
Atlanta, GA
Date:
January – September 2026
Categories:
Air / Smoke
Water Pollution
Flooding
The demo provides simulated research requests and aggregated dataset statistics.
Research data is presented as:
Voluntary + Aggregated + Anonymized
Users can view their own contributions.
Example:
Your Environmental Impact
17 contributions
9 reports
5 volunteer activities
3 environmental actions
The platform focuses on personal/community impact rather than competitive leaderboards.
Privacy is an important part of the platform.
Public reports use approximate locations rather than exposing exact personal locations.
Research datasets are designed to be aggregated and anonymized.
Users voluntarily contribute their observations.
The hackathon implementation is designed as a polished frontend-first application.
The hackathon demo uses seeded/mock data to simulate:
This allows the product to demonstrate the complete user experience without requiring a large production backend.
The central dashboard showing:
Interactive exploration of environmental observations and incidents.
Create a standard environmental observation.
Quickly report urgent environmental events.
Discover nearby volunteer opportunities.
View personal reports, volunteering history, and environmental impact.
Explore aggregated environmental information and submit data requests.
Demonstrates how nonprofits can interact with community reports.
The hackathon demo focuses on the full product story rather than production infrastructure.
A typical demonstration:
This demonstrates the complete:
Observe → Understand → Act → Research
cycle.
Potential future versions could include:
The goal is to make environmental participation accessible.
People don’t always have time to organize a cleanup, attend a meeting, or conduct scientific research.
But they might have 20 seconds to:
See something → take a photo → report it.
One observation may seem small.
Thousands of observations can reveal patterns, connect communities with organizations, help researchers understand environmental conditions, and make it easier for people to take action.
See something. Make a difference.
A simple observation can become community intelligence.
Community intelligence can become action.
And collective action can create better environmental understanding.
To learn more, take a look at the following resources: