A Brief for
Janine M. H. Selendy
What we have built from your spec — what is live today, what is planned, and what is not yet built. Written plainly, because your 40 years deserve nothing less than the truth.
Every entry is equal because it is true — not because it is popular, ranked, or amplified.
Your spec asked for a universal, honest, non-speculative repository for verified climate solutions. No engagement metrics. No ranking. No advertising. No fundraising. Rough locations only, to protect privacy while staying verifiable. Reviewed before publication. Copyright-free images. Every language on Earth, over time.
That is what we built. This brief shows exactly where each part of your spec stands today.
What is live now
Two entry types
Solutions (positive actions to replicate) and Climate Crises (emergencies to alert the world to) — exactly as you specified.
Your category taxonomy
All 20 categories are implemented in the database and filterable on the page. 12 of 20 already have seeded entries; the rest are supported and ready.
Rough location, no coordinates
Every entry stores a country and a rough region only. No GPS, no precise coordinates — your privacy stance, kept.
Reviewed before publication
Every entry carries a status field (draft / reviewed / published). Material is reviewed before it goes public, same as the Solutions Site model.
Copyright-free images only
Every image is sourced from copyright-free pools (Unsplash). Image credit is stored on each entry.
Source name + source URL
Every entry links to its original source — Horizon Solutions Site, peer-reviewed articles, verified reporting.
Scale field
Individual, community, city, country, global — your spec, implemented.
Groups
People working on the same topic in the same area can form a group. Email is required, per your spec. The platform stores no messages.
Actions
Cleanups, plantings, meetings, policy submissions, workshops, monitoring. Each action carries one contact link — the organiser is contacted directly. The platform never sees the conversation.
60+ interface languages
The page interface is preset in 8 languages and AI-translated live into 60+ more, including Gàidhlig, Cymraeg, Quechua, Hawaiian, Te Reo Māori, Ancient Greek. You can also free-type any language on Earth.
No advertising, no fundraising
Stated on the page. Enforced by design — there is no ad network and no donation flow on the climate record.
Open source, extraction-proof
The platform code is open. A public covenant explains how it resists corporate capture.
Full-screen detail pages
Every entry opens on its own page with its full body, source link, and related entries — native back-button, mobile-first.
The x = x covenant
No likes, no upvotes, no ranking, no algorithm. Every entry sits beside every other entry as an equal, because it is true.
The record, today
Numbers are live — they grow as the community adds entries. The platform counts them from the database on every visit.
What is planned, not yet built
Entry translation by community
The interface is translated now. Entries themselves (the solution text) are translated by our community over time — not automatically, because accuracy matters more than speed.
8 empty categories
Heat, coastal protection, zooplankton, phytoplankton, rewilding, transport, electric vehicles, solar desalination. The database and filters support them; we need to seed the first entries.
Photo51 evidence link
Connecting ground-action photos (cleanups, plantings) to the climate record, so an action can carry visual proof without storing personal data.
Mapping view
A rough-region map of where solutions and crises are happening — privacy-respecting, no precise pins.
What we will not do
- · No advertising, ever.
- · No fundraising on the climate record.
- · No likes, upvotes, ranking, or engagement algorithms.
- · No precise location tracking.
- · No private messaging stored on the platform.
- · No speculative or unverified claims presented as fact.
- · No mixing of this record with token or crypto mechanics. The climate record stands alone, as a public service.
The only maths that matters here
A solution in Nepal is equal to a solution in Niger — not because of votes, not because of reach, but because both are true. A crisis in the Sahel is equal to a crisis in Cardigan Bay. The record does not rank. It does not amplify. It holds what is true, side by side, and lets the world read it.
This is the whole engineering principle. Every database query returns entries in the order they were created. No score field exists. No weight field exists. The absence of a ranking algorithm is the feature.
This platform is built in honour of Janine M. H. Selendy and Horizon International — and released to the world, the planet, all of us. Your 40 years are the foundation. Our job is to carry the record honestly, in every tongue, to every person on Earth.
The live record is at /TogetherChangeClimate. This brief is printable. We will add nothing we cannot stand behind.
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