Urbanika and the Climate Positive Bus
Urbánika is touring 40 cities in 20 countries with a climate-positive bus, showcasing regenerative practices, offering DIY workshops, and promoting ecological self-managed cities through educational activities and open-source technology.User Review
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A1
Reviewed on 14 Feb 2024 01:56 PM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. We use Twitter, web domain registration date, and other public info to determine this. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
The provided information does not include specific dates for Twitter creation, web domain registration, or other public information needed to confirm the project's age.
The Grant must be **primarily focused on climate solutions** (the group may do other work but the grant proposal should be directly related to climate solutions). The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions.
The project 'Urbanika and the Climate Positive Bus' is focused on climate solutions. It aims to showcase and promote regenerative practices through the transformation of a bus into a mobile, climate-positive unit that reuses gray water, converts organic waste to biogas, and uses solar energy.
Grantees who received funding in a previous round(s) **must provide a new update on their progress and impact.** You can also include the challenges you've faced. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing.
The proposal includes updates on progress since receiving previous funding, mentioning the architectural plans and teaming up with architects from 9 Viento Arquitectos. However, there is no mention of minting Hypercerts for work and impact.
All returning grantees are expected to update their proposal, in addition to project updates the proposal should include lessons learned from previous work and how they will use the additional funding from the upcoming round. The updated proposal should indicate how additional funding will help the project meet its goals, and include a rough timeline for the project overall.
The project provides an update that includes their budgetary needs for the climate-positive transformation of the bus and their plans for use of additional funding. There was also mention of their plan to spread Urbánika’s course, providing a broader vision and goals, which indicates a timeline for their project.
There is a general expectation that projects are within the **“realm of viability”**. Even if a project is very early, it must still seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Including information about the team's expertise, qualifications and skills will help us review your grant.
The project appears to be within the realm of viability with an operational team including committed architects and engineers, and a clear plan for executing their climate-positive initiatives. The team's collaboration with professionals and the detail in project planning suggest credible intentions and expertise.
Grantees can be eliminated from consideration in the round if they are found to be encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.
There is no information provided within the scope of this evaluation to assess whether the project has been involved in any malicious activities. External checks would be required to verify this.