Approach 3

Approach 3 – TannerM

Again there’s a problem with the pictures, but picture the campus’s mall trees with black bags covering their base with white crosses in front of them to act as a grave. Update: In moving forward with this project I’ve decided to add a new element […]

EcoTech Approach – IanD (Group AustinT and IanH)

Walking can be such a drag, especially when you’re pressed for time. For busy college students, walking from class to class can be quite the hassle. If you’re a commuter and your class is across campus, it usually makes sense to hop back in your […]

Echotech Approach-MarcD

Photosynthesis *the above link leads you to the Adobe Spark page Title:  PhotoSynthesis; Air Reconditioning Co. of UMaine Images: https://spark.adobe.com/page/Hfl1xPbxRUdnT/   Summary/Abstract:  A homepage for a company that allows UMaine students and faculty to rent plants to be delivered.  These plants can purify the air in their […]

Ecotech Approach – AlexM

Ecotech Approach – AlexM

Community-based art projects created from trash as a way to attempt to clean our streets as a group together rather than as individuals.   (additional images are not uploading, returning an HTTP error)   Background: In my hometown of Belfast, Maine, everywhere you walk in the […]

EcoApproach – CamB, MattC

            BACKGROUND In today’s world we humans are trying to find ways to save in any aspect of life, whether it is money, food, water, electricity, heat, and even our planet. This is how we survive on Earth in today’s […]

EcoTechApproach – EvanL

EcoTechApproach – EvanL

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represtives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tracts of land, easements, and other real estates here to fore known as the Sieur de Monts, situated on Mount Desert IsIand In National […]

EcoApproach_Matthew Carlson, Cam B

EcoApproach_Matthew Carlson, Cam B

            BACKGROUND In today’s world we humans are trying to find ways to save in any aspect of life, whether it is money, food, water, electricity, heat, and even our planet. This is how we survive on Earth in today’s […]

Approach 3 – Jack L, Tyler R, Tate Y

The App: https://xd.adobe.com/view/386bcaf6-3cdf-4032-64ab-f02bdfbebd2c-4e5a/ Summary In partnership with The Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society, we plan to design the user-interface for an application that farmers could use to monitor and control greenhouse conditions to better the efficiency of their year-round food production systems. Background Farmers (particularly small scale) […]

Approach3_ElizabethD

Approach3_ElizabethD

BACKGROUND I wanted to create an app that allows users to share their tips and ideas with one another on how to reduce their environmental impact. DESCRIPTION This app will make you sign in so that you have a profile associated with your posts.  User […]

Approach 3 – BruceW

Play “Making it Big”, a live action video game that explores the relationship between big business and the environment.

Ecotech – LiwenC

Ecotech – LiwenC

Echotech Main Idea: A huge ongoing issue people are dealing with for a long time now is pesticides. With many health related problems that occurs alongside the environmental damage. In this project I will be focusing on blueberries, a main part of farming in Maine. […]

Approach 3_TylerR, TateY, JackL

Approach 3_TylerR, TateY, JackL

Summary In partnership with The Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society, we plan to design the user-interface for an application that farmers could use to monitor and control greenhouse conditions to better the efficiency of their year-round food production systems.   ADD IMAGES WITH “ADD MEDIA” BUTTON […]

EcoTech Approach – Pullen

Many kids are all too comfortable drinking tap water from their houses. But do they really know what’s in their water? I plan to test the water at the 3 main apartment complexes in Orono, the tap water at UMaine, and compare it to different […]

EcoTech Approach – KeeganD

For this project, I’ve developed a framework for a system that both monitors, aids in, and provides rewards for corporate clients looking to reduce their carbon footprint and overall achieve a more environmentally friendly business model. This idea is a broad one, and it could […]

Approach 3– Drake P, Loren H

Approach 3– Drake P, Loren H

Abstract: We would like to make a project that uses the cardboard boxes that are discarded at the postal center to make planters to start a movement on campus encouraging people to grow their own vegetables and herbs, as well as crops that encourage bee populations. […]

Approach 3 – AndrewG

Background: Caring for plants can often be difficult, they can die from lack of water, overwatering, too much sun exposure, not enough sun, the list goes on. I want to make an automated plant pot. Explanation: I will use an Arduino, LEDs, a small water […]

Approach 3 – AustinT, IanH, IanD

Approach 3 – AustinT, IanH, IanD

Walking can be such a drag, especially when you’re pressed for time. For busy college students, walking from class to class can be quite the hassle. If you’re a commuter and your class is across campus, it usually makes sense to hop back in your […]

Approach 3- PeterB, MitchF

Approach 3- PeterB, MitchF

Background:this gives any brief info the viewer needs to better understand the project:   In first world countries, it seems as if everyone has a smart phone these days. In fact, in the whole world, about 65% of people have phones. So, this project could […]

Approach 3—MitchF, PeteB

Approach 3—MitchF, PeteB

Background:this gives any brief info the viewer needs to better understand the project:   In first world countries, it seems as if everyone has a smart phone these days. In fact, in the whole world, about 65% of people have phones. So, this project could […]

BeesnMe of UMaine – DrakeP LorenH

BeesnMe of UMaine – DrakeP LorenH

Abstract: We would like to make a project that uses the cardboard boxes that are discarded at the postal center to make planters to start a movement on campus encouraging people to grow their own vegetables and herbs, as well as crops that encourage bee […]

Ecotech Approach- Haley C

Ecotech Approach- Haley C

Background: My project idea is a set of connected crops(set into net pots on a flat, floating surface) that float on a lake surface. Planting these plants on the surface of lakes and ponds (freshwater) allows us to use water already in place and use it […]

EcoTech Approach – TateY, JackL, TylerR

EcoTech Approach – TateY, JackL, TylerR

Summary In partnership with The Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society, we plan to design the user-interface for an application that farmers could use to monitor and control greenhouse conditions to better the efficiency of their year-round food production systems. Background Farmers (particularly small scale) are already […]

Ecotech Approach – CullenS

Ecotech Approach – CullenS

Need for Seed   Abstract: Need for Seed would be an application that would allow users to send in pictures of their current location, and pay for seeds to plant within the area. Explanation: I think NfS (Need for Seed) would provide an easy experience […]

Approach 3 – StellaL

Approach 3 – StellaL

I would like to create a video/animation the portrays an abusive relationship as a reflection on our abuse to the environment and the effects that we have on it. The people arguing would be silhouetted and between them would be a flower on a window […]

Ecotech Approach – ElizaB

Ecotech Approach – ElizaB

This project is an art installation that uses projection mapping to bring an outdoors atmosphere to the indoors.

Ecotech approach – Jake B

Ecotech approach – Jake B

While the mall is a beautiful place, it lacks colors other than green and organized seating. Garden ME solves this problem and makes the management of it easier.

Approach 3 – MegC

Approach 3 – MegC

The EnviroChallenge Background –  This project is centered on the player making choices centered around environmental actions. The game will be created in Twine which is a software that allows a user to create “choose your own adventure” style game through text and code.   […]

Approach 3—ElliotC

Approach 3—ElliotC

Diagram illustrating the function of a robotic gardener.

EcoTech Approach – Andrew W

EcoTech Approach – Andrew W

How do we draw attention to our crumbling infrastructure in an original way? Flowers.

EcoTech Approach – RyanL

EcoTech Approach – RyanL

Make Your Choice Create awareness to what we’re doing to our environment by putting posters around cities with pollution, and an “environment” room. This project involves two aspects: a poster, and a room. The poster will be put in cities where people don’t get to […]