Instructions on your smartphone: Rubryka launches eco-solutions chatbot

The scale and the predicted consequences of russia's war crimes against Ukraine's environment are outrageous, even considering that recording is being carried out so far only in the territories controlled by Ukraine. A terrorist country carries out ecocide on Ukrainian land every day.

But restoring the environment is the task of each of us. And there are no small steps here.

So that everyone could participate in "ecological reconstruction," EcoRubrics created EcoSolutionsBot: a collection of instructions for saving the environment in a convenient chatbot.

So that everyone could participate in "ecological reconstruction," EcoRubrics created EcoSolutionsBot: a collection of instructions for saving the environment in a convenient chatbot.

The chatbot contains instructions for eco-solutions for various problems, which are divided into categories:

• The impact of war (consequences of shelling, fires, waste of destruction, etc.)
• Animals (disappearance of species, destruction of habitats, safe wintering, etc.)
• Birds (disruption of migration routes, lack of food, population reduction, etc.)
• Plants (invasive species, extinction of species, artificial plantations, etc.)
• Insects (invasive species, the disappearance of beneficial insects, hibernation, etc.)
• Fish (disappearance of species, siltation of reservoirs, feeding, etc.)
• Climate change (increased temperatures, abnormal precipitation, lack of oxygen, etc.)
• City (heat islands, lack of greenery, smog, etc.)
• Soil (soil degradation, soil pollution, asphalting, etc.)
• Air (dust storms, air pollution, soil blowing, etc.)
• Waste (toxic waste, overflowing landfills, recycling, etc.)
• Ecosystems (desertification, degradation of steppes, deforestation, etc.)
• Water (groundwater pollution, reservoir draining, flooding, etc.)
• Energy efficiency (fossil fuel, green energy, energy saving, etc.).

Finding the right solution in a chatbot is very simple. You need to:

• enter the bot
• choose a category
• find a problem that bothers you
• and finally, get the five first steps to solving it

You can also get acquainted with the encyclopedia of eco-solutions on Rubryka's website here.

Implement solutions yourself and share them with friends. Please send us your stories and photos of how you implemented the instructions with the tag #екорішення on EcoRubrics social media (Facebook, Instagram) or e-mail.

The chatbot and the Eco-solutions section were created with the support of the International Center for Journalists.

Let's restore our environment together!