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Contest Winners Confront Climate Challenge Finalists from throughout the world honored at MIT climate conference. Dr. Geoffrey Hay and the HEAT team from the University of Calgary. In seeking creative new ideas to address global climate change from the bottom-up, the MIT Climate CoLab announced today the grand prize and honorable mention winners of its […]

Confronting climate change from the bottom up MIT Climate CoLab conference tackles climate change by harnessing the power of crowds. Vicki Ekstrom | MIT Energy Initiative November 14, 2013 As international climate negotiators meet this month for the 19th meeting of the UN Conference of Parties (COP19), there’s an increasing realization that top-down efforts to […]

Working on the ground in coastal communities throughout New England, Consensus Building Institute (CBI) and the MIT Science Impact Collaborative jointly developed their proposal, Building Consensus, Enabling Adaptation, which won the Judges’ and Popular Choice awards in the Enabling Adaptation contest.  Here’s their story:

With a background in Computer Science, Ecological Economics and Transportation; and a home on a farm in one of the most ecologically-conscious places in the USA, Galen Wilkerson was surrounded by inspiration for his proposal, Smart Mobility for the 21st Century (awarded the Judges’ Choice winner in the Transportation Efficiency contest).  Here’s his story:

Viv and Gerard were winners in the 2011 Climate CoLab contest.  When they received feedback to redesign their idea so it could be successfully implemented, they recruited more members to their team and developed, Cool Food – empowering climate friendly food choices on a daily basis, which won the Judges’ Choice Award in the Reducing Consumption […]

Keith Brower Brown is the project lead for the proposal, Sunk Investment Map: Show the Personal Property Impacts of Climate Change, which won both the Judges’ and Popular Choice award for the Shifting Cultures for a Changing Climate contest.  We touched based with him to hear how he found the Climate CoLab and what his […]