Climate CoLab announces 2011 contest winners
The winning proposals will be featured in briefings at the United Nations and U.S. Congress in late January. Travel expenses will be paid for one representative from each winning team to attend one or both briefings.
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
Two other proposals were finalists:
In the global category, RewirePlus: Behaviour change and value change for the emerging green economy, by Beth Savan and Zannah Matson, of the University of Toronto, and Ellie Farahani, of Safara Sustainability Solutions
In the national category, How to Change US Energy in One Growing Season by George Mokray, an environmental activist from the Boston area
The Climate CoLab has received generous support from the National Science Foundation, BT Group, Cisco Systems, the Argosy Foundation, and Sustainability@MIT.
UN and Congressional briefings, Jan 24-25
See a press release about the briefings by the 2011 contest winners to the UN and Congress.
Thanks 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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