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1. Read the book ;Yes We Can ! - The world is in crisis, can we fix it?; Technology based solutions detailed 2. Blog on 3. Find your role
The collaborative use of wikis and #tags will enable MIT alumni to share their collective know-how towards solutions for global problems
Watershed Moments, Healthy Oceans Festivals Benefit Direct Action Environmental Initiative by Community
Create and promote a multi-lingual video clip resource for news media documenting and dramatizing climate change impacts around the world
The oceans control our weather to a large extent. I believe the tecnnology exists to restore the polar ice caps and modify the jet streams.
The climate challenge can be a platform to create 'shared value' between MIT and the MIT alumni network - to the benefit of all!
Satellite data refutes hockey stick data. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/26/lamar-smith-noaas-climate-change-science-fiction/
Formulating smart clean energy policies is the most effective way to get businesses & utilities to make changes to mitigate climate change
BBQs burn charcoal, Pyrolitic/Gasifying stoves make Biochar for increased Soil fertility and Soil carbon sequestration.
Because two German Shepherds use more resources just for their annual food needs than the average Bangladeshi uses each year in total
Develop basic, cheap technologies to clean up emissions from rapidly expanding coal-fueled power generation in the third world.
Through technical innovations and refined operational paradigms the GHG emissions of the maritime sector will be drastically reduced.
Use the power of greed to stop global warming.
Hilton Head Island is a coastal BARRIER Island that could disappear with sea level rise so reducing any amount of climate change is CRITICAL
Excessive material consumption is the culprit, yet an economic necessity. Consumption of cultural products can solve and yet enrichen Life.
@MIT Plan 4 Action on #ClimateChange #Occupy'S #hopium|#MotivatedReasoning re #CapitalismFail & its #Anthropocene threats. SoftSci strategy.
MIT alumni can help implement CoLab's award-winning “Make Climate a Top Priority for Action by Every Global Citizen and Organization.”
Renewable (and perhaps nuclear) energy sources can best replace fossil sources by developing liquid renewable fuels as energy carriers.
With the emmissions of green house gases set to skyrocket in India over the next few years, we have to help them find cleaner alternatives.
MIT has a track record of profitable inventions.Corporations can leverage this to go profitably green.
Moving a ton to move a person on highways is expensive and polluting. Change the network to move only the person; power with sunshine.
Build a global network of university research teams to create solar based automated elevated mobility systems with support of MIT alumni
MIT sponsors rigorous scientific debate between the two opposing camps: How significant is CO2's impact on global temperature?
This simple, impactful and viable idea helps to increase the efficiency of air conditioners by reducing the volume that needs to be cooled.
Climate mitigation and adaptation technologies and methods, need metrics that reflect their costs and risks as well as potential benefits.
Provide parking spots in real-time to rides-for-hire services (between rides) while reducing emission caused by unnecessary circling around.
Rebuild, re-energize, redirect
Pricing carbon is the most efficient and politically feasible mechanism to effect an economy wide reduction in greenhouse gas consumption.
Let us support the United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) and assist them in tackling these two very important missions!
Pseudo-science fraudsters profiteering at taxpayers' and energy users' expense by falsely whipping up the climate scare should be prosecuted
Basic Sanitation is the first step to health. Communities, threatened by rising sea levels and without running water still need clean water
Persuasive Cities: designing future cities for reshaping societies towards healhier and sustainable routines.
Park&Pedal is a new multimodal transporation method that provides an alternative to commuters who live too far from work to ride their bike.
PAIR Taxi is an innovative transport solution to incentivise the entire society to embrace ridesharing and reduce carbon emissions.
Climate change is not suitably addressed because the academics leading the response are not up to the task. MIT must try to change this.
The only thing keeping me from becoming an astronaut is joining USAF Reserves and earning a 4 year degree in a STEM field, I can do this!
Time for MIT to say goodbye to the reclaimed swamp land on the Charles river and move to higher ground.
Manufacturing is going local -- technology like 3D printing is enabling the maker economy, fueling local jobs, and reducing carbon
MIT Steam Tunnel Society engages all members of the community: alumni, students, staff, and faculty as we rethink a sustainable campus.
MIT alumni can engage their colleagues and Congress to enact effective carbon pricing in the form of a Carbon Fee and Dividend.
Cognitive surplus of millions of undergrads worldwide is squandered as they research uncoordinatedly. MIT alumni can encourage coordination.
MIT 2050 – Carbon neutral, sustainable & resilient. Driven by the new MIT ADAPT Center & realized through 7 key resilient interventions.
Net Zero is available now with off-the-shelf technologies. We challenge MIT: Lead to 100% Net Zero. Expert team and financiers are ready.
MIT Solutions to global warming will bring affordable clean energy to billions of people, especially in the developing world.
Get stakeholders unanimous, migrate from fossils create a new WW industry by recycling atmospheric CO2 profitably
One person's trash is another person's solution to climate change.
Joint development of low-cost Room-temperature DNA or pheophytin-catalyzed fuel cells may give us an epoch-making change. All are welcome!
Climate change presents economic and environment challenges that are addressed in detail in Jobenomics' Energy Technology Revolution Plan.
On the basis of accumulated scientific evidence, MIT should encourage all nations of the world to treat CO2 as an environmental pollutant.
Engage alumni in the sustainability process by creating a mobile app that directly ties donations to building improvements.
Better data, metrics, and communication on building insulation efficiency will yield large reductions in CO2 emissions.
Fuel cells produce electricity & heat without combustion in a clean chemical reaction. Hydrogen can be made from renewable resources.
Poor countries as growing are the biggest threats to the climate. If we help them to get the renewable energy, we can save the climate.
Tanzania has vast natural gas resources and is building the largest port in Africa. Revenues from gas could render Bagamoyo Carbon neutral.
Create a one time donation program where alumni can opt out of being contacted again for donations to support sustainability projects.
Once A Week, Give Our Beautiful Planet A Day Of Rest. A Green Sabbath Day.
I would like to see a discussion that focuses on convincing world leaders that a human extinction scenario is a real possibility.
Create a global network of MIT alums focussed on cities to catalyze and implement innovative climate solutions to help stay within 2°C.
The time has come to prove that fusion energy can provide net electricity. MIT has that capability to do that better than anywhere else
Think globally, act locally has long been a rallying cry for the only effective way to produce global change.
Deploy microgrids to the developing world using a franchise business model based on open source components to reduce cost.
MIT Alumni should focus on mentoring & engaging in communication with the next generation of leaders in science here is a fun way to do it!
Underwater turbines placed offshore in permanent ocean currents (Gulf Stream, Humboldt Current, etc. could generate a lot of excitement!
Remove all CO2 added to the air since the Industrial Revolution, in 1-10 years using a forest of synthetic trees
Match supply to demand with distributed energy storage utilizing web-enabled electric vehicle battery charger - inverter devices
To reduce driving, let's improve the way we pay for the use of parking. Make the cost visible and optional. More choice;less driving.
Cooling datacenters with air is ridiculous! LCS technology cuts datacenter carbon footprint in half - uses no fans, no water and cost less.
Crowdfunding of Dashcameras& wearable Cams &Space International Collections Of visual Scientific Climate Change Data For Science. And more.
Empower cleantech innovation, development and scale up by democratizing the fundraising process.
MIT alumni and students could use a helping hand from alumni with relevant experience in choosing a green career.
Setup a collaborative platform where MIT alumni would moderate discussions and mentor the process of bringing innovative ideas to the market
Ocean thermal is the most abundant renewable energy resource on earth. This cost effective OTEC proposal provide electricity at 2 cent/kwh.
CSRE-engine for including social responsibility in corporate sourcing/siting decisions to minimize manufacturings world environmental impact
A global conversion to a vegan diet can save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, according to a United Nations report:
Make real-time energy use information part of our environments, and people will respond naturally.
ClimateX is a layer on top of EdX through which MIT Alumni will impart and receive training on climate related science, tech and policy
What is a clean, scalable energy solution to what ails our species and the environment worth? More than we the people ever thought possible.
http://solidnate.deviantart.com/art/Alt-energy-concept-565502738 Bouy and counter bouy I.E weaker boyant bouy creates tention on a line
Creating sustainably harvested bamboo forests to eliminate poverty, pollution, sequester CO2 and provide food, building materials, textiles!
Applying Climate Research needs Nation management
Solve the Penetration Paradox that limits developng economies from adopting lower cost renewables in lieu of oil-fired generation.
A MIT Alumni/SDM/VMS/CoLab hybrid would help launch Colab derived AGW mitigation/adaptation concepts in the shortest possible time frame.
Harness thousands of MIT alumni to offer a massive group discount on solar. Provide real-time measurements, donate some cost savings to MIT
Make opportunity (resources from MIT alumni) meet preparation (research and projects by people and organizations from developing countries)
New solar buildings research (SCSA 2013; ARCHITECTONIC REUSE OF WIND TURBINE BLADES and Local Renewable Energy Planning Collaboration.
Time to quit the architectural statements and monumentalism and take a planet preserving step...stop building!
MIT Alumni can take an easy step to reduce hme electricity use 10% at virtually no cost. Save power, cut emissions, and convince others!