50 Prizable climate ideas

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Written By Christopher Putney

This Earth Day, we collaborated with Luminary Labs to highlight 50 ideas for using open innovation to address one of the world’s greatest challenges: climate change.

Inspired by the once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance rapid and transformative solutions—and make a real impact on the future—we’ve curated a list of 50 climate prize ideas. These microproposals only scratch the surface; but they’re intended to inspire fresh thinking about how open innovation could be used to invite a wide range of people and ideas to climate and environmental problem-solving. These ideas could be championed or sponsored by federal agencies, grantmaking institutions, and other types of funders.

Check out the list!
Christopher Putney

Christopher leads the Technology Program’s cross-cutting technology talent and workforce initiatives. He also supports EPIC’s evolving legislative affairs work related to environmental tech and data use in government, tech capacity, and other workforce priorities. Before EPIC, he worked in Deloitte’s Government & Public Services practice doing technology modernization, human capital, and workforce strategy, communications, and change management for federal clients in the executive branch and DoD. His previous work spanned sectors and mission-driven teams, and includes roles in politics, non-profits, and academia, a small e-commerce start-up, and working for a Member of Congress. He holds degrees in Government and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin (BA), and in Political Science, from the Graduate Center (Masters), City University of New York (CUNY). His research and teaching interests are at the intersection of democracy, race, and American political development (APD).

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