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This week, we caught up with Ajith Rao, a Fellow on the Buildings Contest. Ajith’s motivation is rooted in the building industry’s great potential to take high-impact measures on the efficiency front. A significant project that Ajith is involved in outside of Climate CoLab is examining the energy-water nexus and its impacts on the electric […]

Alex Kwan, originally from San Francisco, joins the Climate CoLab for a second year as a Fellow for the exciting and active Energy Supply contest. 2014 Fellow Alex Kwan We chatted with Alex to learn more about the inspiration behind his involvement in the Energy Supply contest and how he contributes to the development of climate change solutions through his career. Here’s what Alex had […]

On April 15, 2014 the Guardian featured the Climate CoLab in its article, “Crowdsourcing climate change, one contest at a time,” by Sarah Shemkus. For millions of people, Wikipedia is a quick and easy way to settle a factual disagreement or research a school paper. For Thomas Malone, professor of management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), […]

Seasonal Migration Routes Identification System and Workshops: A New Strategy, a proposal submitted in the 2013 Urban Adaptation Contest, won Michaël Houle last year’s Popular Choice Award. Over the past year, Michaël has updated and improved upon his winning project, and plans to present it to an international organization by the end of this year.

Rongkun Liu, a Fellow in this year’s Adaptation to Climate Change contest, brings his enthusiasm, expertise and experience in climate change adaptation to the Climate CoLab. A thorough understanding of both adaptation and  contest processes stems from Rongkun’s past participation as a volunteer assessor for the World Bank’s Development Marketplace project, where he helped identify […]

Professor Thomas Malone, Director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and Principal Investigator of the Climate CoLab, presented at WGBH’s Innovation IdeaLab for their November 21, 2013 event: Building Resilience in Times of Rapid Change.  The event was held at the WGBH Headquarters in Boston. Below is his presentation about the Climate CoLab: