Civic Tech Field Guide
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Soils Revealed is a platform that visualises how soil organic carbon stocks have changed globally, and how they might change in the future.
Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.
Newlab Circular City Studio
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USACircular City Studio, a program established with support from NYCEDC, encourages entrepreneurs to reimagine urban environments and help New York City address short, medium, and long term challenges facing our city. The 2020 iteration empowers engineers, inventors, and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to pilot technologies that support NYC's sustainability agenda and rethink energy, waste, and recycling systems in New York City. Selected teams will deploy products and services in testbeds around Manhattan and Brooklyn, working with program partners, domain experts, and research institutions to deliver solutions and introduce relevant technologies that can support community needs.
The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.
By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.
We’re power sector experts who gather, curate and analyse data to empower climate campaign organisations. Our data & analysis helps to shape the global narrative on coal.
Visualizing climate change
Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Everyday it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find.
The B Team is a global nonprofit initiative co-founded by Sir Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz. It advocates for business practices that are more centered on humanity and the climate.
The People's Bus
New York CityThe People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Code for America announce the launch of tools for local communities interested in identifying areas for economic growth using 22 environmental sustainability indicators, including job growth, value-added, air quality, climate impact, energy, water, and land use across 389 industry sectors.
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FrancePublic authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.
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BerlinA Sustainable Internet for All
The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more. Wiseman's documentaries do not have a standard narrative arc, narration, or interviews, but are based on observation of day-to-day organizational life, in this case the activities of Boston's city government in fall 2018 and winter 2019. Much of the film follows Mayor Marty Walsh in activities such as meetings with aides, addressing business leaders about the impact of climate change on the Harbor, listening to veterans at Faneuil Hall on November 11, observing Thanksgiving Day at Goodwill Industries, and giving his state of the city address at Symphony Hall. A second major theme of the film is public servants helping people in need: the eviction prevention task force, another task force on economic advancement for Latina women, and an economic development adviser working with an ethnically-focused grocery store.[2]
THE FRICTIONLESS MICRO-PHILANTHROPY APP TO HELP SAVE THE PLANET.
Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.
ClientEarth
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)We are environmental charity with a unique approach - we use the power of our laws to protect life on Earth.
Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change
AI4Cities
EuropeSix European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.
We are a strategic discovery, design and development lab working to transition society in response to technological revolution and climate breakdown.
Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.
SPE is developing the first-ever Gold Standard certified carbon credit NFTs, a green blockchain entirely powered by renewable energy, and a carbon credit exchange that will use $SPE as the exclusive currency.
Spark Eco will invest in solar energy projects, fund non-profits working on solar projects in developing communities, and support land preservation efforts.
Drive climate action and earn rewards with a carbon-backed, algorithmic digital currency.
EarthFund is using 15% of its equity (plus contributions and LP rewards) to build a planet-saving treasury, controlled by you.
A DAO investing in Earth's Ecosystems.
C40 is a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change. C40 supports cities to collaborate effectively, share knowledge and drive meaningful, measurable and sustainable action on climate change.
The Coalition for Urban Transitions, active from 2016 to 2021, was the foremost initiative supporting national governments to secure economic prosperity and tackle the climate crisis by transforming cities.
Nordic Path
Norway (Norge, Noreg)A public engagement project around air quality
The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.
A structured conversation to identify the most pressing, impactful questions for which data and data science have the potential to answer.
Sea Level Rise Planning Tool - New York City
New York CityThe tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.
Tech Jobs for Good
United States of America (the)Start using your career to make a difference in one of the world's leading tech for good companies fighting climate change, improving healthcare, reducing inequalities and many other impact areas.
The outdoors brand takes on climate deniers
OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW
Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Fundación Avina
Ciudad del Saber, Clayton, Panama City, PanamaFundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
As the gears of federal government have ground to a halt, a new energy has been rocking the foundations of our urban centers. From Atlanta to Seattle and points in between, cities have begun seizing the initiative, transforming themselves into laboratories for progressive innovation. Income inequality, affordable housing, climate change, sustainable development, public health, participatory government—cities are tackling them all, bringing new urgency to some of the most vital questions of the day. Welcome to the age of big city progressivism! Cities Rising is The Nation’s contribution to the conversation.
Weather Rescue
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Help unearth some of the UK's earliest weather records for British Science Week
Congress on New Urbanism
Congress For the New Urbanism, 1720 N Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036, USAThe premiere national event on building better places
A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management
Apologia Project
AustraliaUsing the power of satirical AI -generated media to create awareness about the climate emergency.
Flair
479 Jessie Street San Francisco, CA 94103Smart climate control in every room. Wireless smart thermostats and Smart Vents for Central Heating & AC, Mini Splits, Window ACs, Nest, Ecobee, and more
Mic covers news, opinion, reviews and analysis around arts, entertainment, celebrity, LGBTQ, social justice, police brutality, dating, sex, feminism, body positivity, space, innovation, climate change.
Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
Sea Level Rise Toolbox
MiamiInteractive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels
The Barr Foundation is a private, Boston-based foundation with core programs in Arts & Creativity, Climate, and Education.
Project Drawdown
San FranciscoEach solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.
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