New subcategories

[kangbachen]

Under "Environment" category, I added description and two subcategories.

  {
    "name": "Environment",
    "slug": "environment",
    "description": "Environmentally friendly projects"
    "subcategories": [
      {
        "name": "Sustainability",
        "slug": "sustainability",
        "description": "projects that focus on sustainable solutions pertaining to environment"
      },
      {
        "name": "Flora and fauna",
        "slug": "flora_and_fauna",
        "description": "projects that focus plant and/or animal life"
      }
    ]
  },

[yanivtal]

Nice I like these. I do wonder if Sustainability is the high level category or if Environment is.

[kangbachen]

Environment is still the umbrella term for sustainability, since sustainability is all about environment-friendly approaches to activities or building infrastructure within the environment. The problem is the term "environment" itself because it's not clearly defined outside of the geography circles. Does it include only the natural world and its intertwining connections (living and non-living elements), or does it also include the (particularly environment-friendly) human activities within the environment? Today the word environment is caught in a positive bias. You can't say environment without implying ecological aspects or degradation of surroundings.

• E.g. would a blockchain project built around a coal mining industry be "environmental"? It's happening "in the environment", but it's not "environmental".

• E.g. Would the blockchain build around the provision of timber (a project that falls into Forestry which is a sub-category of "Environment") be environmental if deforestation was excessive?

I think the term "Geography" is a more neutral and easier to categorize. Or, since this project would actually try to categorize blockchain-based geography/environment, "Geographic Information Science" (GISc) would also be a suitable category instead of Environment.

Category: Geography or GISc Subcategories 1: (i) Physical geography, (ii) Human geography, (iii) Environmental geography

Physical geography: Climate, Geology, Soils, Oceanography, Hydrology, Geomatics (maybe this one could be its own sub-category), Places, Flora and Fauna (with a geographic underlying.. Biogeography)...

Human geography: Population (growth, migration, composition), Urbanism, Political geography (electoral geography, borders), etc.

Environmental (aka Integrated) geography: (subcategories that focus on the interaction between physical and human) Sustainability (e.g. eco-agriculture, renewables), Degradation, Pollution, Forestry, Fishing, Agriculture

It's not ideal and I imagine each new project would test the category system. It would be nice to have a community debate on every category.