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🌍 Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition — Caretaker City

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Lisa Girlinghouse

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Edition Caretaker City is a real‑time environmental stewardship app designed to make sustainability visible, meaningful, and shared. Caretaker City also connects neighbors, showcasing local progress as a conversation starter — a way to inspire one another and rebuild beauty in our communities, one choice at a time. My goal was to create a simple, map-based experience that helps people see their impact and take pride in it. https://caretaker-city.web.app (https://caretaker-city.firebaseapp.com The code for Caretaker City is stored locally and deployed through Firebase Hosting. Caretaker City is built with: React for the UI Mapbox for the interactive environmental map Firebase Hosting for deployment A custom floating ⓘ Info Panel that displays the mission statement A clean dashboard showing recycling prices and personal impact An Earth Day Counter that increases every time the user chooses recycling over consuming I focused on keeping the interface clean, modern, and map‑first. The biggest design decision was making the app feel alive — updating prices, tracking choices, and showing neighborhood progress in a way that sparks real conversations. I am submitting to: Best Use of VS Copilot Copilot helped generate UI components, refine the mission statement, and speed up development. Caretaker City’s mission is to make environmental action visible, meaningful, and shared. By tracking real recycling prices, personal choices, and neighborhood progress, the app transforms small habits into community momentum. Together, we rebuild beauty, one choice at a time.