<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yiv5222658142"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5249" style="" class="yiv5222658142"> <div id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5272" class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;"><span class="yiv5222658142" style="">Forwarding an email I received: </span><b id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5440" style="" class="yiv5222658142"><br><br><br>PRESS RELEASE</b><h2 id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5271" class="yiv5222658142"
style="display:block;font-size:24px;font-weight:bold;color:#444;margin:0 0 18px 0;line-height:1.3;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;font-size:100%;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:normal;color:#333;"><b id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5270" style="" class="yiv5222658142">Grand Prize Winners Announced at MIT <span id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5273" style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span> Change Conference</b></h2></div><div id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5250" class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;"><b id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5269" style="" class="yiv5222658142">Crowdsourced ideas to address <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">climate</span> change honored at today’s conference.</b>
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<table id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5256" class="yiv5222658142" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="1%" align="right"> <tbody id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5255" style="" class="yiv5222658142"><tr id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5254" style="" class="yiv5222658142"> <td id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5253" class="yiv5222658142" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;" valign="top" width="1%"> <div id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5252" style="" class="yiv5222658142" align="center"> <img id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5251" class="yiv5222658142" alt="" style="display:block;" border="0" width="280" height="172"> <table id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5260" class="yiv5222658142" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody
id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5259" style="" class="yiv5222658142"><tr id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5258" style="" class="yiv5222658142"> <td id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5257" class="yiv5222658142" style="text-align:center;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;padding:13px 3px 3px 3px;" width="280"> <div id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5261" class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;"><span id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5263" class="yiv5222658142" style="font-size:10px;"><i id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5262" style="" class="yiv5222658142">Grand
Prize and Honorable Mention awardees: Sardar Mohazzam, Kathleen Saul,
Job Taminiau, Anne-Marie Soulsby and Danielle Dahan. (Adele Morris not
pictured.)</i></span> </div></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div>
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <div id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5248" class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;">CAMBRIDGE, MA – The <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span>
CoLab, a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
uses online contests to find innovative, new ways to address global <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">climate</span> change. Today, the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners were announced at the <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span> CoLab’s 2014 conference.
</div><div id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5268" class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;">The Grand Prize winner, Danielle Dahan, took home the $10,000 award for her proposal,<span id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5455" class="yiv5222658142" style="color:rgb(0,17,170);"> <a rel="nofollow" id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5454" class="yiv5222658142" target="_blank" href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/1yjmf/tkvj3d/lygj5b" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#333;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(40,40,40);">Improve Building Energy Performance: Green Job Skills Training</a></span>,
which addresses the shortage of qualified personnel to maintain the
increasingly sophisticated heating, ventilation and air conditioning
(HVAC) systems installed in green buildings today. </div><div id="yiv5222658142yui_3_16_0_1_1415664124222_5267" class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;">“As
high performance green buildings increase in complexity,” Dahan writes
in her proposal, “we need to give building technicians the skills to
maintain buildings and achieve high performance energy goals.” The
curriculum, when in full motion, is projected to save 33 trillion metric
tons of carbon each year in the United States alone.
</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;">Honorable Mention awards were given to three proposals:</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;"><a rel="nofollow" class="yiv5222658142" target="_blank" href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/1yjmf/tkvj3d/1qhj5b" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#333;text-decoration:underline;"><b style="" class="yiv5222658142">A Carbon Tax in Pro-Growth Fiscal Reform</b></a>, by Adele Morris, Fellow and Policy Director of the <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span>
and Energy Economics Project at the Brookings Institution. She
proposes a carbon tax that creates pro-growth tax reform, while also
protecting the poor and reducing the deficit.
</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;"><a rel="nofollow" class="yiv5222658142" target="_blank" href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/1yjmf/tkvj3d/hjij5b" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#333;text-decoration:underline;"><b style="" class="yiv5222658142">A Collaborative Solutions Communication Platform</b></a>,
by Anne-Marie Soulsby and Mandolin Dotto Kahindi, of Tanzania. The
proposal presents Tunza Kwa Faida (Benefits for All), a platform that
combines a radio show and two-way text messaging to help coastal
Tanzanians increase their resilience to <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">climate</span> change.
</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;"><a rel="nofollow" class="yiv5222658142" target="_blank" href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/1yjmf/tkvj3d/xbjj5b" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#333;text-decoration:underline;"><b style="" class="yiv5222658142">Democratic Finance: Energy Of the People, By the People, For the People</b></a>,
by Job Taminiau, Gordon Schweitzer, Kathleen Saul and Sardar Mohazzam, a
group from the United States, Netherlands, and Pakistan. They propose
installing community-funded solar projects on unused federal rooftop
space, which, they predict could mitigate millions of tons of CO2
emissions.
</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;">These
proposals were selected by a prominent team of experts: Robert
Armstrong, Director of the MIT Energy Initiative; Hazel Markus,
Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University;
and Richard Schmalensee, the Howard W. Johnson Professor and Dean,
Emeritus, at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;">The Grand Prize winner and Honorable Mention awardees were selected from the 34 proposals that won individual <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span>
CoLab contests. The winning proposals were submitted by scientists,
non-profit organizations, researchers, entrepreneurs, students, and
concerned citizens. The contests ran throughout 2014 and covered a wide
range of topics, including transportation efficiency, changing social
attitudes and behavior, decarbonizing energy supply, adapting to <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">climate</span> change, land use, urban resilience, and others.<br style="" class="yiv5222658142">
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All the winners were recognized at the <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span> CoLab’s conference, <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv5222658142" target="_blank" href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/1yjmf/tkvj3d/d4jj5b" style="font-weight:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#333;text-decoration:underline;"><b style="" class="yiv5222658142">Crowds & <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span>: From Ideas to Action</b></a>, held this week at MIT. The conference focused on how creative new ideas to tackle <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">climate</span>
change can be translated into meaningful action. As a key part of the
event, attendees and a set of guest experts worked with the 2014 winners
to identify specific actions that can be taken to advance these
innovative proposals.
</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;">Additionally, the conference featured keynote addresses by Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale Project on <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span>
Change Communication and Jeremy Grantham of the Grantham Foundation for
the Protection of the Environment. Plenary panels included speakers
from business, government and the non-profit sector -- including
Lockheed Martin, Braemer Energy Ventures, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Environmental Defense Fund, and the City of Boston--
who have launched <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">climate</span> change initiatives that are making a difference today.
</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;">"This year’s 34 winners came from 17 countries and from a very diverse set of people," says Laur Fisher, the <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span>
CoLab’s Community and Partnerships Manager. "Winners were researchers
in Singapore, software engineers in Japan, entrepreneurs in the
Netherlands, and community organizers working across Germany, Kenya and
the United States. We are very proud of them.”
</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;">“With the <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span>
CoLab project, our hope is to engage the entire world – not just
experts – in developing creative and effective solutions to address the <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">climate</span>
change challenge,” says Professor Thomas Malone, director of the MIT
Center for Collective Intelligence, and principal investigator for the <span style="" class="yiv5222658142">Climate</span>
CoLab. “And our winners represent that. Our community now has more
than 30,000 members and is doubling or tripling in size with each round
of contests. As the community continues to grow, we hope to engage even
more smart, creative people from around the globe.”</div><div class="yiv5222658142" style="display:block;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#333;"><br style="" class="yiv5222658142">
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