New 2012 contests now underway
We invite you to participate in two recently launch contests:
You can also view the full list of contests, to see all Climate CoLab proposals, past and present.
Climate CoLab Announces 2011 Winners
Global category
1st place, Popular Choice: 2010 Winners Combined by Dennis Peterson, a software engineer based in Charlotte, NC
2nd place, Popular Choice and Judges’ Special Commendation: The Planet Or Your Plate: Mitigate Climate Change by Going Meatless by beach babe in fl, an environmental activist and founder of Daily Kos Meatless Advocates, Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology at St. Catherine University, and Gerard Wedderburn Bisshop, advisor and senior scientist at the World Preservation Foundation
National category
1st place, Popular Choice: Cycling Carbon by Dennis Peterson, a software engineer based in Charlotte, NC
2nd place, Popular Choice: Dream for a Green Future by Arnab Mandal and Pooja Arora, graduate students at TERI University, India
Judges’ Choice: Personal Rapid Transit grids, by Christopher Fry, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab
Judges’ Choice: Climate proofing the economics of socially sustainable small-scale agricultural systems, by Maruf Sanni, Idowu Ologeh and William O. Siyanbola, of the Nigera National Centre for Technology Management and James O. Adejuwon, of Obafemi Awolowo University
The Climate CoLab has received generous support from the National Science Foundation, BT Group, Cisco Systems, the Argosy Foundation, and Sustainability@MIT.
Voice your opinion on proposed 2012 activities
Contribute to a discussion on our new approach for organizing activities in 2012
View the taxonomy that will be used to break up the large, complex problem of climate change into sub-problems
UN and Congressional briefings, Jan 24-25
Please read the press release on the briefings by the 2011 contest winners to the United Nations and United States Congress.
Thank you to the judges
Our sincere gratitude goes to the judges who carefully reviewed this year's contest entries.
Shoibal Chakravarty, Research Associate, Princeton University Environmental Institute
David Goldston, Director of Government Affairs, Natural Resources Defense Council
Martin Heimann, Director, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
William Moomaw, Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Susan Solomon, Senior Scientist Emerita, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thanks to the Climate CoLab community
We thank the winners and the finalists for their outstanding work, as well the 4 semifinalists and 50+ other members who contributed proposals during the contest.
We are also grateful to all members of the Climate CoLab for their enthusiastic comments and voting. More than 1750 votes were cast between November 4 and 15, 2011.
2011 contest in review
The 2011 Climate CoLab contest focused on the green economy, one of the two key themes of the United Nations Rio+20 Conference next year. The 2011 contest question was:
How should the 21st century economy evolve, bearing in mind the risks of climate change?
We solicited proposals that addressed this question at the global and national levels. Judges’ Choice and Popular Choice Winners were chosen. The Climate CoLab will sponsor one representative from each winning team to present at briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington and at the United Nations in New York. The winning proposals will also be featured on TreeHugger.com.
Contest Archives
2010
Winning proposals and the briefings at the UN and U.S. Congress. List of the finalists and of the entries.
2009
White paper to the United Nations.
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