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The Challenge
How can today’s technology help us make the most of our planet's resources?
Challenge Brief
You shared your imagination with us. We heard your smart ideas about using technology to help us make the most of our planet's resources. We received an inspiring 329 inspirations and 400 concepts. You re-purposed technologies and came up with new uses for them. And we have now chosen the final concept to help shape a cleaner, more sustainable future for our planet. Read the challenge brief
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Inspiration phase is now finished.
Thank you all for your great inspirations. Our panel of experts sifted through an incredible 335 of your inspiring ideas and synthesized them together into six themes that form our challenge for concepting phase.
Now it's back to you - Take the challenge and share your concepts now.
Awareness, Responsibility
Imagine a sink with no drainage whatsoever. With the tap water running continuously, realising that it will soon overflow, you took out a plastic straw and started drinking the water out. Will it make difference?
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Global Warming is the environmental challenge that most concerns me. I believe that the different ways to encounter this challenge will also be helpful to combat some other challenges. Example: to prevent global warming we need to preserve the forest, saving different animal species from extinction.
Is my belief that education is the key to fight against climate change. And, since so many adults and children are invest so much time using Play Station, my idea is to take advantage of it to make them aware of the situation and solutions.
I suggest to use PlayStation as the mean to achieve environmental education. To create a range of games challenging users to create strategies to fight against climate change. These strategies should be followed by missions so the strategy can be executed.
Education Station
Global Warming is the environmental challenge that most concerns me. I believe that the different ways to encounter this challenge will also be helpful to combat some other challenges. Example: to prevent global warming we need to preserve the forest, saving different animal species from extinction.
Is my belief that education is the key to fight against climate change. And, since so many adults and children are invest so much time using Play Station, my idea is to take advantage of it to make them aware of the situation and solutions.
I suggest to use PlayStation as the mean to achieve environmental education. To create a range of games challenging users to create strategies to fight against climate change. These strategies should be followed by missions so the strategy can be executed.
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Habit or necessity?
75% of Americans drive to work alone, 5% use public transit, and 0.4% bicycle.
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Air Pollution
Motor vehicles are the world’s largest source of air polution, which causes 30,000-60,000 premature deaths a year in the US according to the EPA. This is a waste of life from a very preventable cause.
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The Green Grid
Energy. It is one big issue, and if we think about reality as nothing more than energy conversions between objects, it is something that affects us all. What worries me is that because of consumerism, for the sake of a capitalist economy & money (which equates to nothing more than trust on paper) we will end up teaching our kids lies & that this will hinder them in being able to innovate technology wisely, for the sake of future needs.
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Fund Raising- Ecosia
We all know that Google is making quite a lot of money from advertising. The idea is simply to steer the money generated towards ecological development.
Ecosia.org is doing through their website that gives search result from google. In the end, you have the quality of Bing with the benefit of sending money to the right purpose
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Beyond the Automobile. Making Public Transportation the most convenient mode of transportation
Public transportation Technology can help facilitate a new approach to the design of sustainable lifestyles. There are many ways that Sony products can be implemented in the Public Transportation system. Improving the way public transportation systems operate, and how information is given to its passengers, can become on of the greatest opportunities for Change, Globally. As many developing countries expand and grow, and larger populations gain excess to wealth, the need for convenient and appealing Public Transportation will become critical. We must find a way to change the face of travel and break away from the idea of the individual automobile.
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aprendiendo algo se puede ayudar al medio ambiente
"La educación Ambiental es el proceso que consiste en reconocer valores y aclarar conceptos con objeto de fomentar las aptitudes y actitudes necesarias para comprender y apreciar las interrelaciones entre el hombre, su cultura y su medio biofísico. La educación ambiental entraña también la práctica en la toma de decisiones y en la propia elaboración de un código de comportamientos con respecto a las cuestiones relacionadas con la calidad del medio ambiente." (1970 - reunión patrocinada por la UNESCO).
roceso en el curso del cual el individuo va logrando asimilar los conceptos e interiorizar las actitudes mediante las cuales adquiere las capacidades y comportamientos que le permiten comprender y enjuiciar las relaciones de interdependencia establecidas entre una sociedad, con su modo de producción su ideología y su estructura de poder dominante, y su medio biofísico.
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Zoom in on the lost connection
I think mankind must strip its behaviour to the bone and start from scratch to give our planet Earth a chance. A chance to heal and recover and to furthermore feed and house all animal and plant life.
This inspiration is about motivating and helping people to change their attitudes, by giving them something in return. A treasure which we in our "modern" world lost so long ago that more and more people forget they have a right to it. We have been so busy trying to fill up the hole of this loss with rubbish, that we forgot what all that rubbish was meant to replace. I trust that much of our desperate hunt on much, new, big, beautiful, rich, luxury, expensive etcetera is an attempt to replace the lost connection with Mother Earth and Father Sun.
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Redesign public transportation and services!
I am most concerned with the idea of public transportation within a city or town. I live in Savannah, Georgia right now and I can see, first hand, how much potential is out there for a more efficient system to be developed.
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IntelliHome & SmartGrid: Technology for Energy Efficiency and Convenience at Home 'n Everywhere
The apathy of the people towards conservation of energy resource and unbridled energy expenditure is the major folly in the environmental sustainability and the biggest of all the environmental challenge. If environment can be saved by minor tinkering of notion, belief and attitude, then it is criminal waste to not to try stem out this malaise.
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Reuse books by setting them free
Many bookshelves in many rooms are stocked with books that either have been read, or are still to be read. And when the owner moves house, many of them will find their way to waste sites. Not with Book Crossing. When you have read a book, you register it (and put a label with a unique code in it) and then release it in the wild, for another reader to find it.
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An important concern is how forests resources are being used. The misuse affects the whole globe, and from the weather to affect the extinction of species.
Why can not we use forests resources in a sustainable way, in our favor?
The solution is in the forests
An important concern is how forests resources are being used. The misuse affects the whole globe, and from the weather to affect the extinction of species.
Why can not we use forests resources in a sustainable way, in our favor?
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How many ears must one person have...
Climate Change will affect absolutely everyone on the planet - we can't afford to stick our heads in the sand and pretend it's not happening.
But if we put all of our heads together, we might be able to find a solution.
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ahorrando el espacio
tenemos que ahorrar todo el espacio que podamos de nuestro al rededor para cuidar toso ser vivo que nos rodea para cuidarlo y cuidar a su habitad.
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Micro-ayudas
tenemos que ayudar al medio ambiente y a nuestro alrededor,nosotros nos responsabilizamos mas donde vivimos y nuestro barrio,es mejor comenzar desde de una roca de ver de una montaña.
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Urban Mining or Recycling Rare Earths
Hold onto your old electronics.
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Integrating Nature in our lives: Water
Our dependence on fossil fuels affects the environment a great deal; there are other better alternatives out there. It is true that renewable energy has gone a long way, but there are better ways in which to incorporate them to our lives; to make them more efficient, as well as to integrate them to existing widely-used technologies and advancements.
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Solar energy as source of electrical energy and income for low-income populations.
The environmental challenge that concerns me more is the growing demand for electricity. In growing populous countries like Brazil in which public policies and technological advances have allowed people with lower incomes more access to appliances, electricity demand tends to increase rather than population size. Photovoltaic solar energy can be used both to satisfy such demands and in the case of surplus be returned to the grid and be an additional source of income.
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I can see garbage on the streets, I can see trees cut, water poisoned by chemicals. And people don't care. They think someone else will do it, not us. They will die soon and we don't think of future generations. They have other problems to solve now: economic crises, high prices on real estate or whatever can be. But they never look around and they will never see that mess that people made on our planet.
While scientists think how to prevent the climate change, stop the emission of GHG, we should think about the world that surrounds us right now, teach children how to take care of environment and learn ourselves how to take care of it, because in comparison to the world population only a very small percent does appreciate the nature.
Involve everybody
I can see garbage on the streets, I can see trees cut, water poisoned by chemicals. And people don't care. They think someone else will do it, not us. They will die soon and we don't think of future generations. They have other problems to solve now: economic crises, high prices on real estate or whatever can be. But they never look around and they will never see that mess that people made on our planet.
While scientists think how to prevent the climate change, stop the emission of GHG, we should think about the world that surrounds us right now, teach children how to take care of environment and learn ourselves how to take care of it, because in comparison to the world population only a very small percent does appreciate the nature.
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