The document discusses several ideas for apps and hackathon projects focused on reducing carbon footprints and promoting sustainable behaviors. Some of the ideas include gamifying travel carbon footprints between London boroughs, visualizing household energy use data correlated with weather patterns, and having retail stores compete to achieve the biggest energy reductions. However, many of the ideas were found to have problems upon further investigation such as a lack of available historical weather or product data.

1. Ideas what we had
Laura Cowen
Alex Hartley
Andy Piper
Alex Hutter
James Grafton
London Green Hackathon
January 2012

2. Borough Wars
● Travel carbon footprints visualised on map.
● Gamify by competing between London
boroughs (a la Nike running game).
PROBLEM
● Commuting isn't that controllable in short-term
so hard to find fun.

3. Historical household energy
& weather data
● Correlate/visualise Laura's household energy
use with weather.
PROBLEM
● Couldn't find free API with historical UK weather
data.

4. Store Wars
● Branches of chain stores compete for biggest
energy reductions.
● App shows progress.
PROBLEM
● Allocate points for actions – bit artificial
● Monitor actual energy use progress – requires
stores to install before we can have data

5. Money-saving expert with
carbon-saving tips
PROBLEM
● Didn't really investigate any further

6. Create Good Guide app for UK
● Good Guide is U.S. brands
● Could match against Amazon.co.uk product
listing to find UK-relevant brands and write app.
PROBLEM
● Amazon annoyingly uses an obscure product
code unlike every other API

7. Good Shopping Guide Android app
● Not very good iPhone app (just a scan of book)
● No public API
● Decided to have a go at designing the UX of an
app...

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