Sources & data

Open about what sits underneath.

Source, scope, freshness, methodology and meaningful limits stay attached to Sustineer’s data experiences wherever possible.

No mystery metrics.
No personal score.

Environment & climate

Weather & growing conditions

Open-Meteo

Open source

Open weather and forecast data used for location-aware conditions.

Air quality

Public air-quality observations from monitoring stations. API access is server-side when configured.

Global context

Our World in Data

Open source

Curated public research and indicator datasets with upstream citations.

Food & farming

Official food and agriculture statistics; annual data belongs in cached or periodic ingestion flows.

Soil maps

ISRIC SoilGrids

Open source

Global gridded soil information. Resolution and uncertainty are shown rather than compressed into a single health score.

Maps & places

Places & maps

OpenStreetMap / Overpass

Open source

Community-maintained place data for the Explore and Sweden/Italy Reuse Map surfaces. Queries are bounded and cached; OpenStreetMap attribution is required.

Basemap

OpenFreeMap

Open source

Initial MapLibre basemap with OpenStreetMap/OpenMapTiles attribution.

Routes

openrouteservice

Open source

Optional route and elevation service, disabled until a server-side key is configured.

Repair places

Repair Café International

Open source

Documented location API used for bounded Explore map queries. It does not establish events or volunteer vacancies.

Nature

Biodiversity

Public species occurrence records; observation density is not the same as abundance.

Citizen science

iNaturalist

Open source

Public observations and project discovery with careful attribution for community media.

Nature activities in Sweden

Naturskyddsföreningen

Open source

Local associations, activities, courses, and advocacy routes kept distinct rather than ranked as policy outcomes.

Citizen science

Zooniverse

Open source

People-powered research project directory; project media and requirements remain on the original platform.

Citizen science

SciStarter

Open source

Optional project-finder directory only in this launch stage; no API/widget or project feed is assumed.

Energy

Solar potential

European Commission photovoltaic estimates. Results are modelled estimates, not a site survey.

Energy transition

Open electricity data for renewable generation and the power transition.

Participation

Community projects

GlobalGiving

Open source

External environmental and community projects; Sustineer links to the original project pages.

Volunteering in Sweden

Volontärbyrån

Open source

Official Swedish volunteering guidance and opportunity search; each organisation sets its own requirements.

Volunteering in Italy

CSVnet and regional volunteer centres

Open source

National orientation route with verified links to regional and provincial volunteer centres; local coverage varies.

Environmental volunteering

Legambiente volunteering

Open source

Hands-on Italian activities, camps, and local groups; dates, fees, and eligibility belong to each original listing.

Online volunteering

United Nations Volunteers

Open source

Remote, task-based volunteering route; applicants must be at least 18 and assignment requirements vary.

Giving and borrowing equipment

Fritidsbanken

Open source

Official Swedish routes for donating and borrowing sports/outdoor equipment; branch acceptance and rules vary.

Other sources

Editorial imagery

OpenAI image generation

Open source

Locally stored WebP illustrations and scenes generated for Sustineer’s page contexts; not third-party stock photography.

Food products

Open Food Facts

Open source

Crowdsourced product and packaging information, shown as available rather than complete.

Discover curation

Official P0 RSS/Atom sources

Open source

Sustineer’s allowlisted official feeds from ISPRA, SMHI, Havs- och vattenmyndigheten, the European Environment Agency, Climate-ADAPT and Sustineer YouTube. Cards retain the original source link and source-specific rights metadata.

Discover storage

Cloudflare D1 content database

Open source

Mutable candidates, editorial review state, translations, source health and approved Discover records; hand-written evergreen content remains version-controlled.

How to read the site

Measured, modelled, forecast, historical, or crowdsourced?

Those words matter. Live APIs support selected weather, air, places, solar estimates, and observations; slow-changing datasets use linked or periodic sources. If a provider is unavailable, the interface says so.