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Finalist Evaluation

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SUBJECT: Your proposal has been selected as a Finalist!

Congratulations! Your proposal, Residential street electric vehicle charging stations, in the Atypical Ideas for Carbon Neutrality in Somerville contest, has been selected to advance to the Finalists round.

Be proud of your accomplishment – more than 350 proposals were submitted and only a very small number have been advanced through these two rounds of judging.

As a Finalist, your proposal is eligible for the contest’s Judges Choice award, as well as the contest’s Popular Choice award, which is determined by public voting.

If you haven’t already, you will soon receive an email from the Climate CoLab staff with details about the voting period. If you don’t receive that email within the next day, or have other questions, please contact the Climate CoLab staff at admin@climatecolab.org

All winners will be announced the week after the voting period ends, on September 12, 2015 at midnight Eastern Time.

Both Judges Choice and Popular Choice will receive a special invitation to attend selected sessions at MIT’s SOLVE conference and present their proposals before key constituents in a workshop the next day, where a $10,000 Grand Prize will be awarded. A few select Climate CoLab winners will join distinguished SOLVE attendees in a highly collaborative problem-solving session. Some contests have additional prizes given by the contest sponsor.

We feel that this proposal brings to light an issue that would be important for Somerville to discuss in its climate change planning process: EV infrastructure in dense communities. While we would have wanted for the proposal to include potential solutions, we are eager to see if this seed of an idea can bloom with more collaboration and input in the future.

Thank you for your work on this very important issue. We’re proud of your proposal, and we hope that you are too. Again, congratulations!



2015 Climate CoLab Judges

Semi-Finalist Evaluation

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SUBJECT: Your proposal has been selected as a Semi-Finalist!

Congratulations! Your proposal, "Residential street electric vehicle charging stations" in the Atypical Ideas for Carbon Neutrality contest, has been selected to advance to the Semi-Finalists round.

You will be able to revise your proposal and add new collaborators if you wish, from July 1st until July 16, 2015 at 23:59pm Eastern Time.

Judges' feedback are posted under the "Evaluation" tab of your proposal. Please incorporate this feedback in your revisions, or your proposal may not be advanced to the Finalists round. We ask you to also summarize the changes that you made in the comment section of the Evaluation tab.

At the revision deadline listed below, your proposal will be locked and considered in final form. The Judges will undergo another round of evaluation to ensure that Semi-Finalist proposals have addressed the feedback given, and select which proposals will continue to the Finalists round. Finalists are eligible for the contest’s Judges Choice award, as well as for public voting to select the contest’s Popular Choice award.

Thank you for your great work and again, congratulations!

2015 Climate CoLab Judges


This is an excellent idea and as a resident of a neighboring town with no driveway, I wish it could be implemented. Impact could be significant if the City was committed to such a solution. It is possible, for example, that a bank of parking spots in each neighborhood could be assigned to electric cars only. There is a question of how the needed electricity would be paid for. Has the proposal writer explored any commercial services for this in other Cities and Towns? This is a reasonable proposal but could definitely use some more detail to make it compelling and persuasive.

Finding alternatives for EV charging that fits our City is a challenge. We'd love to use the wisdom of the crowd to solve this problem and become a model for dense urban cities.

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