Cheeky Carbon Presentation

Your guide to

What is Cheeky Carbon?

• A website that promotes particular types of plants that absorb carbon from the atmosphere and store the carbon in the soil. They are ‘cheeky’ carbon sequesterers.

• A place where people can buy the seeds and make a garden of cheeky carbon seeds then network with other gardeners.

Cheeky Carbon sequesterers?

• The ‘cheeky’ carbon sequesters are plants that have been scientifically proven to take carbon from the air and lock it away underground for a very, very long time.

• These plants are called Plantstone plants. See www.plantstone.com.au

Who will use Cheeky Carbon?

• Any one or group with a few - or many - spare square metres of land to plant with high carbon absorbing and storing plants.

• Why? To contribute to efforts at mitigating human-caused climate change and to reduce their personal or group carbon footprint.

How Cheeky Carbon works

Cheeky Carbon homepage

• The homepage briefly outlines what Cheeky Carbon is, what sort of plants are included, how the plants do it and the difference between plants and trees (for reducing carbon in the air).

What the?

• This page fully explains what Cheeky Carbon is, what sort of plants are needed, the Cheeky Carbon manifesto and the Cheeky Carbon story.

Buy stuff

• The buy stuff page offers seeds, seed kits, tools and gifts for sale.

• People will need to buy the seeds before they can contribute to the Cheeky Carbon community.

Explore Cheeky Carbon

• The Explore page allows people to browse other groups (members of Cheeky Carbon) that have established collaborative gardens.

• A map of Australia pinpoints the gardens.

Share

• The Share page allows members to upload photos of their gardens to share with other members, start their own Cheeky Carbon garden group, and modify their free account settings.

Register

• The Register page allows people to start a Cheeky Carbon account.

• Benefits of joining are outlined.

• Members can sign-in to their accounts.

Other pages

• A blog and forum where people can share their ideas about gardening.

• Contact Us page.• Help page.

Technology

• Standards compliant HTML and CSS.

• Javascript, where considered necessary to enhance user experience.

• PHP, MySQL for user log-in.

• AJAX for user account including photo display.

• Google map API.

Usability and Visual Design

• User testing with two or three participants of the prototype pages.

• Simple, minimal use of black and white, plus some colour.

• Hand-drawn look-and-feel to website, to reinforce clean, simple layout.

Feedback?

Contact:

Paul Liddelow

paul.liddelow@gmail.com

Curtin University

October 2008