The MIT Climate Colab has officially announced the results of its 2011 contest "How should the 21st century economy evolve bearing in mind the risks of climate change?" And it looks like beach-babe-in-fl
Global Category
1st Place, Popular Choice: 2010 Winners Combined by Dennis Peterson, a software engineer based in Charlotte, North Carolina
2nd Place, Popular Choice and Judges’ Special Commendation: The Planet or Your Plate: Mitigate Climate Change by Going Meatless by beach-babe-in-fl, an environmental activist and founder of the Daily Kos Meatless Advocates, Nancy A. Heitzeg, of St. Catherine University, and Gerard Wedderburn Bisshop, advisor and senior scientist at the World Preservation Foundation.
Winning proposals are presented by the CoLab to the UN and before the US Senate.
The committee also extends "sincere congratulations" to the in the National Category: gmoke for How to Change U.S. Energy in One Growing Season by George Mokray.
The Climate Colab community currently boasts a membership of 3,600; more than 1,750 votes were cast in support of the finalists.
This year's topic was chosen to initiate collaborative problem solving in the lead up to next year's Rio+20, where a substantial focus will be on the greening of the economy.
Further Reading
ICSF calls on Rio+20 to focus on both blue and green economies
Similarly, economic values have come to dominate discussions on the green and the blue economies, minimizing the importance of social, cultural and spiritual values inherent in the quest for a sustainable and equitable global society.
ICSF has put forward the following expectations for the outcome of Rio+20:
-- an emphasis on a human-rights approach towards sustainable use of fisheries
-- exertion of pressure to uphold obligations for fishery governance
-- a recognition of sustainable forms of artisanal and small-scale fisheries
-- promotion of the nutritional security of the poor
-- promotion of extensive and modified extensive aquaculture
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