After a year of rising impact for the Climate Interactive (CI) program of Sustainability Institute, the board of SI and the staff of CI are pleased to announce that the program is “spinning-off” from Sustainability Institute. Starting today, August 2, Climate Interactive is a project of the Washington D.C.-based New Venture Fund. After the transition, […]
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 […]
Top Ten Ways Climate Interactive and C-ROADS Delivered Results in Copenhagen
The Climate Interactive team, led by Sustainability Institute, delivered big results in Copenhagen at the UNFCCC’s COP15 climate conference. Bill McKibben wrote in the UK Guardian, from Copenhagen: “the only people who really understand what’s going on may be a small crew … called Climate Interactive. Their software speaks numbers, not spin – and in […]
International Herald Tribune Covers the Climate Scoreboard
Amongst several dozen other major media outlets — click here for many of them — the International Herald Tribune used our open source Climate Scoreboard data to create their summary graphic for their coverage of the Copenhagen Accord.
Climate Scoreboard Tracks Copenhagen Progress in Real Time With Embeddable Widget
The Climate Scoreboard is a new, easily accessible tool for understanding and tracking the global climate change negotiations in real time. This new online resource — an embeddable widget, a short video, and a set of graphs and a table — reports, on a daily basis, the long-term climate implications of proposals to the United Nations […]
Simulating Climate Hope at TEDx Asheville
Big learning last night at the amazing TEDx Asheville: People who understand the urgency of climate action are HUNGRY for a scientifically grounded story of the path to a global climate deal. As part of the Climate Interactive team, I told that story last night using the C-ROADS simulator, and it felt like I was […]
Climate Interactive Plays “Green Drinks” in Asheville
“And now everyone lift their watermelon over their head…!” Click above for recent presentation of results from our C-ROADS simulation in Asheville North Carolina, home of NCDC — the country’s largest repository of climate data. The model images are difficult to see. For clearer versions, check out the similar model runs here in our presentation […]