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Anyone can sign up and submit ideas or lend your opinions to what's essentially an elaborate online discussion thread for climate issues. Last year, the overarching topic was "What...
There is so much evidence for global warming coming from so many sources that it can't be denied. One more of those uses data that has been crowd-sourced by a citizen science organization...
Also in this issue: Chris Brummer and Daniel Gorfine of the Milken Institute explain what are the things needed to know about "crowdfunding" -- in particular, the sort of regulation...
“Wicked problems are those for which no single computational formulation of the problem is sufficient, for which different stakeholders do not even agree on what the problem really is, and for which there are no right or wrong answers, only answers that are better or worse from different points of view,” explains Thomas Malone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and founder of the Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI).
The intractability of the wicked problem is what first inspired Malone to dream up the Climate CoLab. Global climate change is a perfect example of the wicked problem. There is a deadlock of perspectives on how to address climate change, how severe it is, and whether it is even real. People with different political and economic viewpoints will answer these questions differently. Malone imagined a tool that would be able to represent these mutually contentious perspectives but guide them towards solving problems and generating strategies for addressing climate change.
What I love about the web is that as soon as I wrote that post, someone (Phil Green) responded by setting up a group on a site where people interested in this could crowdsource maps of local CO2...
Al Gore and his Climate Reality Project unveiled an ambitious crowdsourced tool called “Reality Drop” last week.
Many scientific advancements in prior centuries can be attributed to a single individual or, at most, two to three people that have either independently or jointly innovated. However, advances in technology, global communications and social interactions have meant that the 21st century will be recognized as the century where mass collaboration changes the paradigm.
Citizen Science has become more of a differentiator as scientists are now turning to crowdsourcing to engage large communities of home scientists to help process vast amounts of data and to draw accurate conclusions from scientific research.
350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Their online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of...
TruthMarket, a division of Truth Seal Corp., today announced that registered member, Ellen Davis, launched a campaign challenging climate change deniers to prove that more than 5% of credible...
Missed our webinar on How to Cut Your Business Energy Costs by 25%? View and listen to the recording. Utility bills are something we never think too much about but are a big expense. What if you...
"Powering Your Home," Phase 2 of GE's Ecomagination Challenge, will award money for the best idea for designing a smart home that can save energy, increase efficiency and reduce...
Skeptic paper doesn’t necessarily “reject the consensus position” that humans are causing global warming. It may address a more narrow issue like ocean acidification or the carbon cycle.
We have been running a lot of jobs through CrowdFlower, but only recently did I step back and add up the tweets processed. For more than 200,000 individual tweets, we have received more than 1,000,000 trusted, human judgments from the CrowdFlower workforce! I know our research team, who had to do a bunch of judgments early on as we worked out a viable strategy, are grateful that we could get help from the crowd.
An inspiring video on what the whole world can do for climate crisis! Moving Planet will be a day to put our demands for climate action into motion—marching, biking, skating—calling for the...
After two prior successful campaigns, firstly calling on the crowd to create a 55-second film that illustrates the meaning of “Chevy Runs Deep” and following that up with a campaign called “gets its kicks" where people were asked to write a script for an iconic 30 second film which captures the unique spirit of the original Route 66 and Chevrolet, Chevy have once more turned to MOFILM to produce filmic stories that captures the next 100 years of Chevy spirit -- 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of Chevrolet. MOFILM is a global community of filmmakers that worki with leading global brands. “We want filmic stories that capture the shared moments of life and the role a brand like Chevrolet could play over the next 100 years”, explained the briefing.
Chevrolet and MOFILM continue to develop their relationship working together with worldwide producers to redeem the values of a brand which is closely linked with American history and one that has had a huge cultural impact globally -- After all how many other brands have been mentioned in over 700 songs? Chevrolet was founded in Detroit, in November 1911, by racer Louis Chevrolet and General Motors founder William C. “Billy” Durant, who developed cars that quickly earned reputations for performance, durability and value.
Repower America is a bold campaign for a transition to clean, renewable energy in order to solve the climate crisis. Thousands of Repower America members around the country took a stand for clean...
Twenty-six photos , including three winning images each in the "free" and "digitally manipulated" categories, were selected by a jury out of nearly 600 competition entries and...
With the crowdfunding concept and space on fire, it’s nice to see a project stepping up to do some actual good for our planet. GreenUnite provides some really great resources about clean...
The first bird watching database with geographic coordination uses points to represent the data, makes it convenient for update and maintenance, and provides an open platform for crowdsourcing....
CarbonStory is a social enterprise giving people a fun and easy way to become part of the solution to climate change by sponsoring projects all over the world.
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