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Adaptation and Civil Society Groups

• Judges’ Choice: George Hops Farmers Association Climate Adaptation & Resilience Programme /  Hops Farmers Assoc.
• Popular Choice: Steps to an Ecology of Mind-Climate Change Impact/Adaptation Strategy in Africa /  AHP/FPD

Agriculture and Forestry

• Judges’ Choice: Nicaragua: Carbon Sink, Economic Driver & Medicinal Plant Preservation /  Cecalli Esteli
• Popular Choice: Woody Agriculture: Breeding & Implementing Hazelnut & Chestnut as Staple Crops / Badgersett Research

Building Efficiency

• Judges’ Choice and Popular Choice:  EE-based Formalization /  Ohygen Rules
• Popular Choice (at large):  Smart LED Streetlamps system through the implementation of mesh networks /  hector_bracamontes

Electric Power Sector

• Judges’ Choice:  Spontaneous Conversion of Power Plant CO2 to Dissolved Calcium Bicarbonate /  The Planet Doctors
• Popular Choice:  Integral Fast Reactors Can Power The Planet /  tomblees
• Popular Choice (at large):  It’s the 21st Century. Where’s My Fusion Reactor? /  Dennis Peterson

Enabling Adaptation

• Judges’ Choice and Popular Choice:  Building consensus, enabling adaptation: facilitating collective risk management /  CBI and MIT SIC
• Popular Choice (at large) and Judges’ special commendation:  Photovoice for Vulnerability: Disaster Adaptation in Central Philippines /  VisableVoice

Geoengineering

• Popular Choice:  Saving the Planet, v2.0 /  Planet Physicians
• There was no Judges Choice winner for this contest.  For details, see Comments by Expert Reviewers on the Geoengineering Proposals

Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)

• Judges’ Choice:  Dual purpose fracking /  johnd
• Popular Choice:  Methane-sniffing drones with distributed mobile sensors! /  Ocean Foresters

Local Solutions

• Judges’ Choice and Popular Choice:  Transition Lab: Scalable Resilience Education and Models for New Local Economies /  Transition Lab

Reducing Consumption

• Judges’ Choice (tie):  Cool Food – empowering climate friendly food choices on a daily basis /  Cool Food Campaign
• Judges’ Choice (tie): Whose Home is wasting more energy, yours or your neighbours? /  drgeoff
• Popular Choice:  Reimagine prosperity; reframe sustainability; reshape consumerism /  JUCCCE

Replacing Diesel Generation

• Judges’ Choice and Popular Choice:  Replacing use of diesel pumps in agriculture. /  IDEI

Scaling Renewables in Major Emerging Economies

• Judges’ Choice:  Fish River River Hydro Scheme /  Gaia Power Group
• Popular Choice:  From the Crowd to the Base: Crowdfunding for Local Climate Action /  C2B Crowd-to-Base

Shifting Cultures for a Changing Climate

• Judges’ Choice and Popular Choice:  Sunk Investment Map: Show the Personal Property Impacts of Climate Change /  Sunk Investment
• Popular Choice (at large):  CliO – A Virtual Green Pet that Responds With Low-Carbon Lifestyle Choices /  Yale FES

Transportation Efficiency

Urban Adaptation: Climate Resilient Cities

• Judges’ Choice:  Integral GIS – A conceptual framework for participatory adaptation planning /  ldrose
• Popular Choice:  Seasonal Migration Routes Identification System and Workshops: A New Strategy /  Michael Houle

Waste Management

• Popular Choice:  Mission 2030 – Zero Construction Renovation Demolition Waste to Landfill by 2030 /  CRI Council
• There was no Judges Choice winner for this contest.

*Popular Choice (at large) refers to proposals which received over 100 votes (3% of votes cast in all contests)

After review of the entries, the Judges in the following contests have chosen not to award any winners.  While the finalists presented very intruiging and well thought-out ideas, the Judges deemed the challenges associated with implementing those ideas as being too great to warrant further development of the proposals.

Each contest now displays all submitted proposals and we encourage our community members to continue to Support and Comment on them.  To see how many votes were cast for each proposal, click the “Selection of Winners” phase at the top of each contest page, below the title.

Don’t forget to check out and register for our Crowds & Climate Conference on November 6-8, where these winners will be presenting.

Congratulations again to our winners, and thank you to everyone who participated in the 2012-13 contests for your hard work, intelligent thinking, and valuable contributions!  Together, we are helping to plan and gain support for better climate actions than anything we humans would otherwise have done.