The Solutions Factory
The Factory, how does it work?
1. A problem
You have a problem and you need some help. You’ll submit it to our community.
2. The Solutions Factory
If a suitable solution already exists, we create a recipe to share it and to make it replicate.
If no solution exists, our network of experts take it over and develop the solution !
3. Replicable recipe online on Save The Alps
When the problem will be solved, it will turn into a delicious open SOURCE recipe
Do you already have a solution ? Drop it on our interface and we’ll turn it into a recipe! Everyone will be able to replicate it.
Current problems to solve !
Transport, education
Collective school pick-up
Solutions being considered:
- The collective bike created by “Scool’ Bus”
Recycling, waste
Recycling transport pallets
Solutions being considered:
- Find them a second function (without recycling it)
- Find a company or a sorting centre that can recycle them
- Start a business that recycles them
Feeding
Be able to know the carbon weight of meals
Solutions being considered:
- A spreadsheet
- an app / software for restaurants (and individuals)
Solidarity, education
Build an ecovillage
Solutions being considered:
- Working in partnership with La Bascule or La Jolie Colo
Your turn !
Problems currently being solved
Adapting winter activities to climate change
Solutions being considered:
Adapt winter activities to summer
Create an ecological offering for summer activities
- Recipe soon online. Resolved to 60%
Being self-sufficient in water
Solutions being considered:
Having your own wastewater treatment plant
Recovering rainwater
Filter rainwater
- Recipe soon online. Solution realised at 30%
Permaculture places
Feeding
Solutions being considered:
Making permaculture accessible to individuals and farmers
- Recipe soon online. Solution realised at 10%
Lots more to come!
Do you have a solution? Put it on our website and we’ll turn it into a replicable recipe!
Solved problems already turned into online recipes
"Change my old wood stove that pollutes too much".
Chosen solution: install pellet heating (less polluting and more economical).
"Make meal delivery more eco-friendly"
Chosen solutions:
Be 0 waste
Use a low-polluting means of transport
"Optimize collective heating"
Chosen Solutions: making programming changes
