Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead In my last piece on the environment, we talked about how if we want to effect real change, we need to push for system-level change. We’re going to start with […]
Project: https://www.iseechange.org/ Climate change is a poorly understood phenomenon primarily because verifying its local impact on day-to-day weather patterns is highly difficult due to the scarcity of granular data. Fortunately, that is changing with the introduction of the iSeeChange Tracker app that first emerged as an independent online weather journal in 2012, but has now […]
Project: Climate CoLab The Climate CoLab has launched a set of contests seeking high-impact proposals on how people, organizations and governments can tackle major climate change challenges. Entries can win prizes — including a $10,000 cash award and a chance to present at MIT — and also feed into larger climate action plans for countries […]
Project: iSeeChange: The Almanac For decades, anyone who relies on the weather for a living has depended on almanacs, those annual calendars with weather statistics and tables, to roughly predict the current weather. But with climate change making patterns harder and harder to suss, a new project called iSeeChange wants you to help document what’s […]