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MIT CLIMATE COLAB AND NIKE CALL FOR MATERIALS INNOVATION TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 As part of NIKE, Inc.’s strategic focus to reduce its environmental footprint and enable business growth, the company announced two efforts today aimed at furthering that commitment: a collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Climate CoLab to bring innovation […]

With only months before the long anticipated international climate negotiations in Paris, a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers a set of new innovations for effective climate action. But these ideas weren’t developed by MIT professors or students; they were collected from and selected by the 50,000 people around the world who are members […]

In March 2015, the Climate CoLab opened 15 contests on key challenges the world is facing as we confront climate change. Nearly 400 proposals were submitted and evaluated by the Judges, who then selected 109 Semi-Finalists. The authors had a chance to revise their proposals with the Judges’ feedback before entering a second round of evaluation, where 58 proposals were selected as […]

The Judges have reviewed and evaluated nearly 400 proposals that were submitted to the Climate CoLab during its 2015 round of contests, and selected 109 as Semi-Finalists.The authors of these Semi-Finalist proposals were given the opportunity to revise their entries based on the feedback from the Judges and the community before undergoing a second round of judging to select 58 contest Finalists. Today, the […]

Semi-Finalists announced for 13 Climate CoLab contests Over the last few months, more than 300 proposals were submitted to the Climate CoLab. Proposals were novel and inspiring, and they offered a multitude of new perspectives on how to address the challenges we face when confronting climate change. Thank you to the bold proposal authors, the […]

The Climate CoLab recently introduced the “Impact Tab”. With the Impact Tab, authors are now able to calculate the potential greenhouse gas reductions from their proposed actions. The Impact Assessment Fellows’ role is to help proposal authors with this process. We had an opportunity to sit down and speak with the Impact Assessment Fellow team […]