What are the wider impacts of a ‘Platform as a Service’ (PaaS) architecture for environmentalism
There is no other project addressing issues which have more critical and wider impacts on our collective lives, how we live them, and ability to do so sustainably, safe guarding our children’s rights to expect the same standard of living environment and ecosystem. Arguably this is the project of the century.
We are building a platform focused on environmental care, habitat lose and reduction and general care for our planet and all species of flora and fauna. There is huge interest and general acceptance of man-made environmental damage, including loss of habitat and destruction of nature, and what this means to the planet, and future generations. Governments are not doing enough. Corporates are not doing enough. Local communities and private enterprise must engage and participate more. Along with this growing understanding and fear is a growing awareness and acceptance of other causes of man-made damage. Environmental issues and damage to the planet is subject matter that binds us together, as a global community.
There are a number of wider benefits including economic, social and personal benefits each local community will recognise with the launch of an environmental PaaS where all citizens have access. These include, but are not limited to:
• A cleaner healthier local environment;
• A community who share a bound sense of local purpose;
• A local government who shares in the economics of an increased environmental workforce;
• A mechanism by which Schools and other community groups can participate in meaningful local environmental action;
• A group of local businesses who support local efforts seeing new opportunities for support and growth;
• A community’s growing shared education around environmental action;
• A community’s shared acceptance of sustainable purchasing and production choices;
• A local community member feeling better about himself/herself and what they have achieved; and
• The opportunity to lift local community out of poverty via the receipt of our Utility Tokens.
Using the Schools’ program above as an example, we see the value in educating our young today so our planet stands a better chance, tomorrow. With that thought in mind and knowing the kids today understand the latest technology and have a whole lot of great energy and a real sense of ‘what is right’, we will launch a locally relevant but global facing, programme for Schools.
All Schools, starting with all Schools in Great Britain, will be invited to join the Schools program with a chance to have their project promoted globally as a demonstration of the will, determination and knowhow of kids in respect of the type of Planet they want to live in and share with their neighbours. Our kids will learn the value of participation, setting goals to obtain results and project management with the benefit being derived by local communities for the betterment of our globes habitats, ecosystems and environment. And this is just a single example of a bow with many threads.
This acting local but thinking globally offers many new opportunities for work, inside and outside of the environmental industry. As the industry is valued at $USD 28.6 Trillion over the 2 decades the PaaS sees a large portion of this very big number pushed to local communities where the passion resides to fix the problems of rubbishing and ruination. Seeing government and community come together, to fix local problems locally, seems to make the most sense, and certainly does in an economic perspective in that government can draw on a large organised team of local volunteers and businesses with an interest in seeing their local communities prosper.
Once the PaaS is released, governments at every level, will become involved to utilise, value and support the benefits of community participation. The PaaS promises to improve quality of life, social inclusion, and generate jobs opportunities. The community will empower others to become more publicly aware and educated on many facets of good environmental behaviour including proper recycling, water conservation and food management, all known to affect biodiversity, habitat and nature.
The potential scale and scope of environmental cause and effect, with the use of a Platform as a Service architecture, supported by new and evolving data structures, information and curation models are impossible to predict. Innovative endeavour, and thinking outside the box, for the benefit of our shared planet, is almost guaranteed as the entrepreneurial spirit is opened to the entire World, or anyone who has a great idea and joins the Project’s community.
What we want to do?What we do know is that all humanity needs to get on board. This is environmentalism’s biggest problem. It’s inability to scale and to democratise the environmental effort. Even if governments legislate positive environmental changes, that will not be enough. All of humanity need to get involved to change user habits. Decisions which we take ourselves often have a greater effect than those taken by governments. Reducing food and water waste, cutting meat consumption, recycling all garbage waste, installing solar panels, turning lights off, and other even simpler changes can have a huge impact.
It is humanity that hold the key to the environmental solution. People are the biggest part of environmentalism. We believe it to be true and want to deliver an open Platform as-a-Service that can aggregate, collect, unite and channel intent and goodwill around this ‘not for profit’ action.
About environment4change
The environment4change Foundation’s purpose, (The WHY), is to inspire individuals and communities to achieve extraordinary improvements in their environments. This is achieved, (The WHAT), by scaling and democratising environmentalism. The “HOW” is to provide everyone with access to a service (PaaS) providing the global ALL with the digital tools, services and social media that allows them to become active in positive environmental change in their local communities. Thinking locally while acting globally!
environment4change wants to play its part in helping solve one of humanities greatest problems, “the global rubbishing of our planet”. By harnessing technology (PaaS, BlockChain, AI, Big Data and mobile and web applications) and making them available, communities will be able to clean up their own environments. This will vastly improve qualities of lives and will redistribute power, capital and opportunity to people within those communities.
