What can Ecowalla offer to municipalities, cities and government organisations?
Ecowalla is a community that leverages technology to help people live more sustainably. When you take the quiz, you receive accessible, actionable info to help reduce your carbon footprint. When a whole city or organisation takes the quiz, the real magic happens.
While the Ecowalla quiz is simple and easy to do, the data that it collects is powerful. For a city, municipality or government, this data can guide new sustainable initiatives. Some ideas of how that data could be used:
For instance, if you can see that a majority of people have their own renewable energy in a specific area, you know it might be better to install renewable energy sources in another area.
If you can see how many citizens drive electric cars, how far they drive them, as well as where and how much they’re charging them, you can determine the best way to build charging infrastructure.
Even understanding the dietary changes of a city can provide useful data on reducing waste and supporting local agriculture.
Many cities have committed to climate goals that will require both expensive and time-consuming sustainability initiatives. Ecowalla offers a quick way to lower emissions across the whole city and create lasting change at a fraction of the cost of big infrastructure changes.
Through offering the Ecowalla tool to citizens, a city is empowering them with information on both their current footprint and ways that they can easily improve it. It is a meaningful way to engage communities and allow them to contribute towards the greater goals of the city.
Reporting on data gathered using the Ecowalla tool for cities would fall under a methodology called consumption-based accounting. This means that when citizens lower their carbon footprint, the city is able to report on this in a way that is standard protocol. This approach was used by the King County in the U.S. state of Washington in 2012.
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
Through applying Ecowalla across your organisation, you are contributing towards the key targets of this goal including:
Goal 13: Climate Action
Through implementing the Ecowalla tool, you are contributing towards a key target of this goal: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
In this quick session, the Ecowalla team will understand your requirements and goals so that we can assist in implementing the tool optimally.
We are able to add cities in 15 minutes to the system. In this step, we will provide you with the URL for your customised website and dashboard.
You’ll send citizens to the custom website where they can take the quiz. The Ecowalla team can assist with any communication material and also follow up with reminders or initiatives to encourage citizens to take the quiz.
Your city will be able to use the tool for a year and track all changes and improvements in citizen footprint when new initiatives are implemented or challenges are run.
For emissions, we use what’s referred to as emission factors. These are international standards in each region for calculating the CO2 of a certain activity. The Ecowalla score is our IP. We created it because not everything can be quantified in CO2. For instance, having sustainable investments: It’s impossible to know what’s in every user’s portfolio. So we give users behavioural points for the fact that they invest green. The Ecowalla score is made up of weighted behaviour and emissions results. This article explains the methodology.
