disCO₂very

A free software game to discover the orders of magnitude of the CO₂ footprint in our daily life and raise awareness about climate change.

This application is based on the work done by Thomas James Watson (thank you! ❤️) for wikitrivia. Original source code on github.

About

This project is using the open data provided by ADEME (Agence de l'environnement et de la maîtrise de l'énergie, the french State agency working on climate change). Raw data are avaible on ADEME website, with a nice website for users, or through an API.

⚠️ As a consequence, the CO₂ data are based on France characteristics. The biggest difference with other countries is a very low carbon footprint for electricy consumption as France has mainly low carbon electrical plants. The CO₂ footprint for anything involving electricity would be very different in other countries like those using coal power plants for example.

Contributions

Every contribution to the project is welcome! By contributing, you accept that your work is going to be placed under the AGPL licence (see the LICENSE file).

Technical informations

This project is using the NextJS framework, itself based on ReactJS. NodeJS 18.17.0 or higher is required to build and run the project.

Prerequisites

npm install
npm run i18n-compile

Development

npm run dev

Then visit http://localhost:3000/ to preview the website.

Translations

disCO₂very is using Lingui to manage translation. If you add or modify any sentences in the app, you have to run:

npm run i18n-extract

This will modify the english keys in locales/en/messages.po. Search for the ones starting with #~: they are now outdated and you should delete them. Then go in the other languages files like locales/fr/messages.po and search for empty strings "" to add the missing translation.

Once done, run:

npm run i18n-compile

Static build

To build a static version of the website to the out folder, that you can then deploy anywhere (it's plain HTML + JS, no server needed) run:

npm run build