Our partners at the ClimateWorks Foundation have just published an excellent new report: The Costs of Delay. The message of the report is one we at Climate Interactive emphasize whenever we get the chance: The momentum and delays in the climate system mean that we can’t afford to wait and see about the impacts of climate […]
Tom Fiddaman on Open Source Climate Simulations and C-ROADS
Today we have guest post by Tom Fiddaman of our Climate Interactive team. The original is here. Models and copyrights Tom Fiddaman, July 15, 2010 Or, Friends don’t let friends work for hire. Image Copyright 2004 Lawrence Liang, Piet Zwart Institute, licensed under a Creative Commons License Photographers and other media workers hate work for […]
Top Eleven Extensions of the C-ROADS Climate Simulation
Since 2006, Sustainability Institute’s climate efforts — Climate Interactive and Our Climate Ourselves – operating along side our work with international policymakers, has achieved significant successes translating simulation-based insights in eleven different forms. 1. Embeddable Widget. The C-ROADS-based Climate Scoreboard spread virally through the climate policy world during the Copenhagen Conference and was embedded in […]
Science Museum Climate Change Exhibit Powered by C-ROADS
Guest post here by Mike Richards, from his Excellence By Design blog. Mike was one of the visionary founders of our “Open Source” and “Open Innovation” platform for Climate Interactive, back in 2007. The exhibit below grew out of a partnership with Richard Polonsky of Brown University and Henry Kaufman and team of Tactable. It […]
C-ROADS China Collaboration Grows
The collaboration of the C-ROADS team with Chinese climate analysts at Tsinghua University is growing via a university partnership. At the recent UN conference in Copenhagen, Drew Jones of Sustainability Institute met with Professor He Jiankun of Tsinghua University (shown in the photo) to discuss extending and customizing the C-ROADS simulation to better match the […]
350.org Used Our “Open Source” Climate Scoreboard Data in Copenhagen Poster
The not-for-profit group 350.org used our widely-available C-ROADS output data to create their own poster to influence delegates in Copenhagen at COP15. Near the end of the conference, the poster you see here was pasted all over the Bella Center and seen by thousands.
New Slides Tell Our “Open Source” Climate Sim Story!
Click here or on the image to the left to view a slide show detailing our Climate Interactive efforts and how you can partner with us to use interactive, accessible climate simulations to help stabilize the climate. Provides a good update regarding our recent successes with the Climate Action Initiative in using our lead sim, […]
Sterman Hosts MIT Summit on Interactive Climate Sims
A watershed meeting for Climate Interactive happened May 15, 2007. Many of us working together to launch the effort to create and share user-friendly climate simulations finally met face-to-face! MIT system dynamics hero John Sterman hosted the event at MIT, where we determined our core mission, principles, and structure. That’s Jessica Star of SoL, John […]
Peter Senge on Climate Interactive
Climate Interactive has many creation stories. One central one for me was the day in 2006 when, at a workshop for the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows program where I was a trainer and Peter Senge a guest presenter, Peter said, “We need to get more system dynamics models of climate out there in the world, […]