Lepre Tracker: Small Choices, Big Change

Abstract

Lepre Tracker is a holistic sustainability app that empowers individuals to adopt and maintain an eco-friendly lifestyle. It tracks key areas such as energy use, food consumption, transportation habits, and community practices, providing real-time feedback, goal setting and progress visualization. The app raises environmental awareness through tips and insights, encouraging users to make informed decisions that lower their carbon footprint. Unlike fragmented systems, Lepre Tracker offers a unified platform for sustainable habit tracking, making environmental responsibility a part of everyday life.By fostering motivation, education, and accountability, it enables users to create a lasting positive impact--one habit at a time.

Introduction

Lepre Tracker is an app designed to help individuals monitor and reduce their environmental impact by tracking daily activities such as energy use, food consumption, transportation, and community involvement. It simplifies understanding one’s carbon footprint and encourages sustainable habits through goal setting, real-time feedback, and motivational features like badges and leaderboards.

The app leverages established carbon footprint concepts, combining front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) with back-end tools (PHP, MySQL) to process user inputs and calculate emissions. It uses emission factors and formulas to estimate CO2 output from travel (e.g., flights, car use, mixed transport), diet (based on food type, calories, and sourcing), energy consumption (electricity, fuels), and community actions (waste recycling, volunteering, donations).

Results indicate that energy consumption and transportation are the largest contributors to carbon footprints, followed by food, with community actions having the least but still notable impact. By providing clear, quantitative insights, Lepre Tracker empowers users to adopt more sustainable behaviors and contribute to environmental preservation.

Conclusion

Lepre Tracker transforms sustainability from a vague concept into a personal, measurable journey. By seamlessly integrating the tracking of energy use, food habits and transportation choices and it empowers users to understand and reduce their carbon footprint with ease. The platform offers real-time insights and visual progress indicators that turn data into action. Unlike fragmented tools, Lepre Tracker provides a unified user-friendly platform that keeps individuals motivated. The design will give accurate carbon emission calculators, fosters daily eco-friendly decisions. Features like leadership board drive continuous engagement. This project highlights how innovative technology can influence conscious living and spark long-term behaviour change. With Lepre Tracker, sustainability is no longer a challenge - it becomes a lifestyle. Through every choice, users contribute to a greener and smarter planet.

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