 Laur Hesse Fisher Dec 14, 2017 03:20  | Those participating in this contest may find this article on the IISD Knowledge Hub interesting. The goal of this contest is to combine different proposals that, together, can achieve multiple SDG. This article encourages decision-makers to consider how achieving SDG 4 & 5 (improving women's education) can be an access to also achieving SDG 2 (zero hunger). |
 Pia Jensen Dec 31, 2017 12:01  | Thanks for that article, Laur. It is inspiring and informative. |
Pia Jensen Jan 1, 2018 07:09 | After thinking through my personal views and he differences between who I am as a person having lived in the US for so many years and how that has shaped my beliefs, I found that adding Quality Education and Gender Equality to my proposal adds more value to the proposal. While I felt that I had ample opportunity as a youth and young woman in the US, I understand that that reality is not the norm, neither through education or in equality of the sexes in work and other pursuits. Thanks for lighting up those issues. |
 Annalyn Bachmann Jan 31, 2018 07:53 | Listen to MIT ClimateX's podcast about the contest: https://climatex.mit.edu/podcasts/designing-better-future-climate-colab-and-crisis-mitigation-maarten-van-aalst. |
Pia Jensen Feb 2, 2018 12:25 | Really like the Nature-Based Solutions presentation https://climatex.mit.edu/video/nature-based-solutions-climate-mitigation-and-resilience |
Pia Jensen Feb 5, 2018 11:17 | The evaluation comment on the C'SQUARE proposal is valuable stuff, worthy of a wider audience (and for the CoLab to consider if not already using any of these practices for all contests), so, I'm pasting it here: Annalyn Bachmann: "Comment from the author who had issues posting to the platform:" C'SQUARE: To ensure highest data security and transparency as well as limit data misuse and fake news, several arrangements will be implemented.
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 Erich J. Knight Feb 7, 2018 09:47 | I find the effort of ngos like the African Christian organizational Network,ACON, providing clean cookstoves that only burn the hydrocarbons in biomass while leaving the elemental carbon as biochar for soil carbon sequestration can profoundly change the health prospects for women and children, who do most of the work in so many African countries, by the elimination of smoke saving these women and children from black lung and emphysema which kills them at a higher rate than AIDS or malaria in these countries. |
Erich J. Knight Feb 7, 2018 09:42 | Also websites like soil for climate which is working with the Maasai in Kenya teaching them holistic grazing methods, which treat cattle and other farm animals as a predator would, moving them quickly from paddock to Paddock stimulating the grasses to release more carbon sugars building the soil microbes and fungus to build more soil carbon. |
Pia Jensen Feb 7, 2018 11:12 | Erich - your comments are so on target. It's unfortunate that 'leadership' does not place agroecology at the front as an immediate action for all countries to practice en masse. We're really missing the boat by continually pushing regenerative projects into the future as a last resort measure. If you haven't listened to John Fernandez and colleagues in the Nature-Based Solutions presentation, I highly recommend it. https://climatex.mit.edu/video/nature-based-solutions-climate-mitigation-and-resilience |
 Michelle Samuel Mar 16, 2018 07:28 | Very interesting proposals. Looking forward to sharing this with my peers and relevant persons in my country who deal with sustainable development. |
 Karen Agustina Jan 18, 2019 02:43 | Thanks shared. |
Karen Agustina Jan 21, 2019 03:59 | Thanks shared. |
