Discussion Local solutions 2013
Rob Laubacher Oct 26, 2012 10:58
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On October 22, 2012, Thomas W. Malone, John Sterman, Jason Jay, and Robert Laubacher of MIT led a Sloan Innovation Period (SIP) class entitled “The Climate CoLab: Working with People from All Over the World to Address Climate Change.”
In the class, students generated a series of initial ideas for selected Climate CoLab contests, voted on the ones they liked best, and then created proposals in the CoLab based on the top-ranked ideas.
The initial ideas generated for the “Local solutions” contest were:
- Elementary education programs that use games to change family habits
- Incentives for recycling, specifically around formalization of the occupation of waste picker
- Programs that aware ecopoints at the city level for individuals and organizations that adopt sustainable practices
- Allowing individuals to adopt and name newly planted trees to create a strong emotional connection
- Tax the use of disposable cups and bags and provide rebates for returning/reusing them
The education idea was then developed by the student into a draft proposal, Elementary and Middle School Education:
https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/13/planId/1000601
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