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We reduce GHG emissions through our work in climate communications and strategies. Working with NGO\u2019s, within the legal system for climate harm relief, with Indigenous Nations, with Cities, with water and energy companies, with Businesses and with Web3 Climate/Blockchain entities to help them do everything from stopping pipelines to finding funding to publicizing their narratives around decentralized energy, carbon credits, monitoring and accounting.  Our work is a continuing project, we have updated our proposal and will continue to work to improve Web3/Climate projects and relationships.", "hidden": true, "question": "Please describe how your project meets the round eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are embarking on a new project which will see the creation of blockchain material (Deck, one pager, talking points, memes, narratives etc.) for climate practitioners in order to bridge the chasm between them and help create more projects that can be replicated and scaled.\n\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior season.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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Working with Indigenous organizations, voting organizations, neighborhoods, cities and activists to promote climate action to communities around the world and to counter the vast array of fossil fuel advertising and disinformation.\n\nWe have made great strides in the past season interviewing over 50 climate solutions projects and helping to support many projects around the world with their strategy and outreach. \n\nIn the next season we intend to work directly with blockchain enabled climate solutions projects to help tell their stories and create emulatable templates for decision makers. \n\n![Elephant in the Room Banner](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/5a16d4dadb11cccae6c62de2367edbb4/Screen_Shot_2019-10-06_at_10.37.50_PM.png)\n\nStrategic messaging about the climate crisis needs to be around every corner including the corners of Web3 and yet, it is oddly absent. Even with a worsening situation every day, well under 1 percent of overall news coverage was devoted to climate change last year and a majority of people still report that they rarely talk about climate change with their friends and family.\n\n![A billboard that says Vote for Salmon not a pipeline](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/5527fd004620fc6be0c3fc4aa83f229b/Screen_Shot_2019-07-09_at_11.39.07_PM.png)\n\nWhile the majority of people understand that climate change is real, there is still no feeling of urgency and rarely are people aware of the solutions available to us\u2026our mission is to change that. making the solutions real and tangible for people. We need a major shift in our approach to communications around the climate crisis. In order to do that we connect the dots for people on the things that motivate them to act; finding the inroads in specific communities around urgency, step-by-step solutions, and alternatives.\n\nWe \u201cfill the gaps\u201d by organizing and implementing the type of strategic campaigns that no one else is doing. Working both independently as well as with other nonprofits, First Nations/Native Americans, governments of all sizes and other partners to spread awareness, motivate change, find common ground and make solutions a reality.\n\n![A picture from the Great Climate Race](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/c50ce756c387b5243741d47ede07cb53/Screenshot_2019-05-09_at_11.26.23_PM.png)\n\nOur campaigns are local, involve existing networks and grassroots organizations and both air and ground games. We utilize digital platforms as well as traditional and in person methods to create a sense of community involvement as well as political mandate. We also work to incorporate important messaging into existing media (TV, Film, radio, podcasts etc.)\n\n\n**What's next?**\n\nWe will run a campaign in the Web3 space focusing on working together for a better future. But this campaign will also help non-Web3 natives - from industry, government, media and the street understand how web3 can play a key role in making this transition possible. \n\n![A meme showing two futures one bleak and one hopeful](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/2cc732f64f0ed2ef04f9959ec782c092/FEQAXFNXIAIgC1t.png)\n\nWe have worked on hundreds of campaigns over the past 25 years ranging from stopping destructive mega projects at the community level to actively participating in and speaking at world summits; always with the goal of changing the conversation especially with those not already in the conversation.\n\n![a climate solutions ad on the side of a streetcar](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/ac34ed0492a2b0dea06e6fd0b05a25a6/photo.JPG)\n\n**What problem do we address?** \n\nWe address the elephant in the room. Looking for ways to communicate and dialog with people about climate solutions that are usually left out of the conversation. We work with indigenous groups, immigrants, farmers and those about to be sunset out of energy jobs. We work with diversity, equity and inclusion groups as well as social and climate justice organizations. We are constantly testing what works and what doesn\u2019t work; where the polarity lies and how to stop the divisiveness that has infiltrated every conversation.\n\n\n**How we address it?**\n\nOur goal through each of our campaigns is to turn apathy, fear, and discord into action, cooperation and ultimately, heroism. \n\n\nA few examples of our work includes;\n\n\n**The Great Climate Race**\n\nA 10, and 2k virtual race and road race on the Vancouver waterfront and peer to peer crowdfunding web app to raise funds per mile for renewable energy projects\n\n![Elephant in the Room Banner](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/b3cffb9589ec20792542f0cd738acd87/Screenshot_2021-12-02_184344.png)\n\n**Conversations for Responsible Economic Development**\n\nBringing businesses into the climate conversation. Engaged hundreds of businesses in working collaboratively. Outreach and educational activities including research papers and multimedia as well as media relations \n\n\nhttp://credbc.ca/\n\n\n**Tar Sands Campaign**\n\nStrategic campaign to bring awareness to tar sands projects and issues\n\n![a banner at a rally at a UN climate convention that says stop the tarsands](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/b3b338a9230c3cda8b3e942cfef6a539/IMG_0893.JPG)\n\n**ECO**\n\nFilm, television and music PSAs and strategic climate messaging\n\n![Elephant in the Room Banner](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/b3cffb9589ec20792542f0cd738acd87/Screenshot_2021-12-02_184344.png)\n\n**Raven Coal Mine**\n\nSuccessful campaign that stopped a coal mine in coastal forest habitat\n\n\n**Climate Action Plans (CAPs)**\n\nCreating CAP\u2019s for local governments\n\n![Graphics from a climate action plan](![Elephant in the Room Banner](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/5a16d4dadb11cccae6c62de2367edbb4/Screen_Shot_2019-10-06_at_10.37.50_PM.png))\n\n**FIPA (Canada/China trade treaty) legal challenge**\n\nWorking alongside the Hupacasath Nation to mount a Federal legal challenge against a problematic and dangerous trade treaty\n\n\n**Tsleil Waututh Nation Sacred Trust initiative **\n\nHelped to a support a major, decade long ongoing initiative to stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline and protect Burrard Inlet, West Coast and the climate \n\n![A billboard featuring an image of Kayah George](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/e123a596ce9d789fa2dabe17a5412661/IMG_8706.JPG)\n\n\n**VoteClimate**\n\nNational and regional election campaigns focused on raising awareness about climate change and encouraging people to push politicians for action\n\n![A flyer made for the Vote Climate campaign](https://c.gitcoin.co/docs/f673684d4e2c8ccc73c50dfae8cbe7e4/Screenshot_2021-12-14_133323.png)\n\n**Cool Neighborhoods* *\n\nUN award winning on-the-ground climate program in 27 neighborhoods around Vancouver\n\n\n**Carbon Budget project/eDemocracy**\n\nCreated carbon budgets and climate engagements for local governments and authorities in Canada, US and Australia \n\neDemocracy.net\n\n\nAnd much more...\n----\n\n\n\nThank you for your support!\n\n\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "climaterace"}, "recipient": "0x0ff1bAA6c90480d8627B922A1E81393EB9C7eA08"}}