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CoLab Talk: Meeting with Policymakers January 17, 2012
Happy New Year to the Climate CoLab Community! This month we are looking forward to two meetings with policymakers. Winners of the 2011 Climate CoLab contest will present at the United Nations in New York City on January 24 and the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. on January 25.
Last month, members of the Climate CoLab staff also presented at the UN, during an Intersessional Meeting to plan the Rio+20 Conference. >January 24: UN Briefing
Professor Thomas Malone, the head of the Center for Collective Intelligence, will introduce the Climate CoLab and 2011 contest winners to officials at the United Nations. The winners will then present their proposals. Our audience will include the executive coordinators of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Brice Lalonde and Elizabeth Thompson.
>January 25: US Congress Briefing
The day following our meeting at the UN, Professor Malone and contest winners will also present in a briefing on Capitol Hill sponsored by the US House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee.
>Report from Rio+20 Intersessional Meeting in December
We have uploaded slides to the Climate CoLab Library from our presentation at a side event during the Rio+20 Intersessional Meeting on December 16, 2011. A co-presenter, the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, also wrote an interesting post describing its plans for the event.
Please stay tuned as weupdate you on upcoming developments. As always, you are invited to contribute any thoughts, ideas and feedback on our Community Page.
CoLab Talk: COP17 and Rio+20 Intersessional December 7, 2011
>Get Involved with Policymakers and Innovators
December is a busy time for policymakers. Right now, COP 17 is taking place in Durban, South Africa. Next week, the side events leading up to Rio+20 Conference for Sustainable Development will be taking place in New York City. As a result, it is a busy time at the CoLab. Check out these events with which we are involved and offer your support and insight:
“Achieving Implementation—Accountability, Engagement and Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation,” December 16, 2011, United Nations, New York City. As Rio+20 approaches, the Prepcom will be holding meetings at which organizations will present their work on climate change action strategies. The CoLab will have 1.5 hours, along with the other presenters, to contribute its ideas about multi-stakeholder cooperation.
U.K. Youth Climate Coalition Durban Dares from November 28, 2011 to December 9, 2011. A collaborator with the CoLab, the UKYCC, is attending COP17 and making sure its youth delegates have their voices heard by the attending countries. During COP17, the UKYCC is challenging the global community with Durban Dares where you can do your individual part for the health of the environment.
Green Innovators in Business Network’s (GIBN) Third Annual Boston Solutions Lab on December 8, 2011. The Environmental Defense Fund, Center for Climate Change and Energy Solutions and DIG IN are convening a conference on green innovation at the Microsoft New England Research Center. Staff at the Center for Collective Intelligence, the organization where the CoLab is designed and managed, will be attending. If it interests you, please join in this exciting day.
>Contribute to the design of the 2012 Contest
The 2012 contest will have a new format and technology. Read about the proposed changes here. One of our goals is for the community to be involved in the evolution of our tool, through a series of activities, but in the meantime, contribute your ideas.
CoLab Talk November 17, 2011
>Congratulations to our winners
After months of hard work from our community, we pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Contest. These proposals reflect an excellent range in the methods and geography of the authors. Representatives from each team will present their work to the United Nations or U.S. Congress. Please stay tuned for these events.
Global Category
1st Place, Popular Choice: 2010 Winners Combined by Dennis Peterson, a software engineer based in Charlotte, North Carolina
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 the Daily Kos Meatless Advocates, Nancy A. Heitzeg, of 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, also the author of global category winner, 2010 Winners Combined
2nd Place, Popular Choice: Dream for a Green Future by Arnab Mandal and Pooja Aroora, graduate students at TERI University, India
Judges’ Choice: Personal Rapid Transit Grids by Christopher Fry, research scientist at the M.I.T. 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 Nigeria National Centre for Technology Magement, and James O. Adejuwon, of Obafemi Awolowo University Also, sincere congratulations to our finalists: ReWire Plus by Beth Savan, Zannah Matson and Ellie Farahani, and How to Change U.S. Energy in One Growing Season by George Mokray.
We thank the winners and the finalists for their outstanding work, as well as the semifinalists and 50+ members who contributed proposals during the contest. We are grateful to all members of the Climate CoLab for their enthusiastic comments and voting. Without all of your contributions, this contest would not have been possible.
Our membership has grown to nearly 3,600 and more than 1,750 votes were cast in support of the finalists. Please look out for our upcoming activities, which will offer more opportunities for collective thinking and design.
CoLab Talk November 14, 2011
>Voting Ends Tomorrow
Please cast your vote for your favorite global and national proposal today. The contest will end when the last place on earth turns from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning: November 15, 23:59:59 in the Yankee Time Zone in the Pacific Ocean. Equivalent times are: >Wedneday, November 16, 11:59:59 AM (Greenwich Mean Time) >Wednesday, November 16, 6:59:59 AM (Eastern Standard Time) >Wednesday, November 16, 7:59:59 PM (China Standard Time) >CoLab Featured on Crowdsourcing.Org
Research specialist Lisa Jing and Associate Director Rob Laubacher, of the Center for Collective Intelligence, the birthplace of the CoLab, have published an editorial about the Climate CoLab on crowdsourcing.org. Read about our experiences in designing this tool and share your reactions and questions.
>Share Your Feedback on the Current and Future Contests
On our community page, James Greyson (blindspotter) has started a discussion seeking feedback from members about this year's contest and ideas for next year's contest. Please see the crowdsourcing.org editorial for a description of the matrix design that we are planning. We would love to hear your thoughts.
CoLab Talk November 8, 2011
>Cast your vote
The final round of our contest has begun. From now until November 15, 2011, members are invited to vote for their favorite global and national proposals. Popular Choice and Judges' Choice Winners will be awarded based on the voting, and travel expenses will be paid for a representative from each winning team to present to policymakers on Capitol Hill or at the United Nations.
To vote, simply login and browse the global and national proposals. In each of these categories, you can select the button "vote for plan."
Invite your friends to explore the proposals. They, too, can register and vote for their favorites.
>Announcing the Finalists
Three global and five national proposals were advanced by the judges to the voting stage. We congratulate these eight finalists on their hard work and ingenuity.
Global Finalists
National Finalists
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