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EcoGPX: Art-Tech-Community to Reshape Wealth Generation
EcoGPX pioneers art-tech-community interactions, reshaping wealth generation and traditional ROI. By hacking social media, we channel funds toward ecological and social impact. Leveraging community arts expertise, we propose a new socially regenerative financial model.
AI-enabled fintech (trade tech) for repo trading.
My hack harnesses AI technology to advance artificial liquidity and intelligent agreement through executing repo (repurchase agreement) trade between wealthy funders as strategic sponsors and social/sustsinable/transformational entrepreneurs as stewards.
Ecobricks
Single use plastics are a big part of the problem of waste management in underprivileged communities but with the right organization and systems they can be utilized to improve the communities infatructure. By filling bottles with soft plastic waste and coming them with little cement and mud, they can be used to build retaining walls, steps, houses raised garden beds and many other structures. Empty bottles can be used to build roofs and walls that with allow light to enter.
Chose installers that support local economy impact through the hiring of county residents
There are three main barriers that keep people from adopting solar: cost, red-tape, and customer inaction. The most important truth remains--Solar panels are a smart energy solution of the future that reduces the risks we face from increasing power prices and cuts our reliance on fossil fuels – over 35% of Blaine County’s electricity mix comes from out of state coal fired power plants. The limited-time nonprofit initiative reduced the three barriers listed above. RePower cut costs by relieving customer acquisition costs for installers. Red-tape and momentum barriers were addressed by vetting installers for the customer; setting up educational workshops to explain the technologies, incentives, and financing options; and creating limited-time campaigns to get people to act fast.
Free Solar Site Assessment and an Accompanying Reach-Out from Local Installers
There are three main barriers that keep people from adopting solar: cost, red-tape, and customer inaction. The most important truth remains--Solar panels are a smart energy solution of the future that reduces the risks we face from increasing power prices and cuts our reliance on fossil fuels – over 35% of Blaine County’s electricity mix comes from out of state coal fired power plants. The limited-time nonprofit initiative reduced the three barriers listed above. RePower cut costs by relieving customer acquisition costs for installers. Red-tape and momentum barriers were addressed by vetting installers for the customer; setting up educational workshops to explain the technologies, incentives, and financing options; and creating limited-time campaigns to get people to act fast.
Installers provide an all-inclusive $/w purchase price, decreasing by defined tier levels as capacity increases
There are three main barriers that keep people from adopting solar: cost, red-tape, and customer inaction. The most important truth remains--Solar panels are a smart energy solution of the future that reduces the risks we face from increasing power prices and cuts our reliance on fossil fuels – over 35% of Blaine County’s electricity mix comes from out of state coal fired power plants. The limited-time nonprofit initiative reduced the three barriers listed above. RePower cut costs by relieving customer acquisition costs for installers. Red-tape and momentum barriers were addressed by vetting installers for the customer; setting up educational workshops to explain the technologies, incentives, and financing options; and creating limited-time campaigns to get people to act fast.
Electric Vehicle Group Purchase Program
There is hesitancy for both individuals and businesses to make the switch to electric vehicles due to lack of EV education and not enough financial incentive. It was important to start an electric vehicle initiative in the area, especially as Idaho’s transportation sector has the largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions in the state. Electric vehicles (EVs) directly reduce these emissions – especially when paired with renewables energy sources like solar.
Electric Vehicle Community Outreach and Education
There is hesitancy for both individuals and businesses to make the switch to electric vehicles due to lack of EV education and not enough financial incentive. It was important to start an electric vehicle initiative in the area, especially as Idaho’s transportation sector has the largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions in the state. Electric vehicles (EVs) directly reduce these emissions – especially when paired with renewables energy sources like solar.
Actionable Impact Management Guidebooks
Assessing the risk and impact of you investments, grants and social business is complex and time consuming. Often feedback from capital deployment to outcome created, and learnings are not properly aligned. Having an outcome lifecycle platform from defining the impact strategy, metrics selection, result data collection, analysis, insight, and reporting can bring necessary accountability that impact space demands.
Solutions to how can Sheila know if drugs are available in the local hospital today
To Re-Image Procurement and Supply Chain Management Taking Inspiration from Nature
Solar Ambassador Toolkits
RE-volv, founded in 2011 is a nonprofit that empowers people to support clean energy and combat climate change via crowdfunding campaigns that enable community-serving nonprofit organizations to go solar, reduce their carbon footprints, and save on their electricity bills. There are roughly 1.5 million nonprofits and 30,000 cooperatives in the United States that face major barriers to getting their solar projects financed. These organizations have a difficult time finding financing because of their inability to take advantage of solar tax credits, the difficulty establishing their credit worthiness, and their small solar energy system size (10kW-30kW. For reference, 5kW powers a medium-sized home). RE-volv seeks to serve this niche yet incredibly influential market. RE-volv offers a zero down, 20 year solar lease option that offers up to 15% or more in electric cost savings. At the same time, RE-volv earns between 6-12% Internal Rate of Return on each project.
Crowdfunding platform for Non-Profits going Solar
RE-volv, founded in 2011 is a nonprofit that empowers people to support clean energy and combat climate change via crowdfunding campaigns that enable community-serving nonprofit organizations to go solar, reduce their carbon footprints, and save on their electricity bills. There are roughly 1.5 million nonprofits and 30,000 cooperatives in the United States that face major barriers to getting their solar projects financed. These organizations have a difficult time finding financing because of their inability to take advantage of solar tax credits, the difficulty establishing their credit worthiness, and their small solar energy system size (10kW-30kW. For reference, 5kW powers a medium-sized home). RE-volv seeks to serve this niche yet incredibly influential market. RE-volv offers a zero down, 20 year solar lease option that offers up to 15% or more in electric cost savings. At the same time, RE-volv earns between 6-12% Internal Rate of Return on each project.
The Resettlement of Isle de Jean Charles
As a part of the LA SAFE program, the resettlement of Isle de Jean Charles falls under the Resettlement category, where projected storm surge is expected to be in excess of 14 feet. The base principle of the Resettlement zone is that some parts of our state, due to a variety of reasons, are becoming uninhabitable. This is very much the case for the Isle de Jean Charles. The island is at risk of completely disappearing in the next 50 years or upon the next significant coastal impact. Before entire communities, such as Isle de Jean Charles, are wiped out because of coastal erosion or the next coastal impact, the remnants of dwindling communities must be captured and transferred if the state does not want to lose the unique characteristics that make it so special.
resilience.io
By 2030 5 billion people will need housing, infrastructure, services, food, healthcare, education, decent jobs and natural resources, with growing threats to society from climate change, water/food insecurity and ecological destruction. There is consensus among UN agencies and national governments to tackle these challenges and sufficient investment capital is available but not released due to lack of city region capacity and investment mechanisms. Computing and communications technology, geospatial data volumes and modelling skills have now improved significantly to enable integrated planning & investment decision making at the city community level to release this capital into the right projects. Our 2030 Roadmap action plan shows how $100 million core funding can create open-source software tools and facilitate release of $3.5 trillion/year of risk informed capital into city regions to enable 5 billion people by 2030 to live safe, healthy, productive, prosperous, fulfilling lives.
Permaculture expansion crash test
This solution emerged from discussions between an expert in business models and a couple of permaculturists. Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered on simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. It has many branches that include but are not limited to ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, construction and integrated water resources management that develops sustainable architecture, and regenerative and self-maintained habitat and agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems. It holds an enormous potential for solving many of our and our environment problems (pluri-SDG!). However, it is surprisingly slow in getting known more widely. A co-creator of the Business Model Crash Test and a couple of permaculturists are willing to invite G3iD participants to brainstorm on ways to make the permaculture approach spread faster than ever!
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Crafting the Narrative
To educate children about the SDGs.
Fostering bike share adoption in other cities
In just a few years Paris has built the largest bike-sharing system in the west. Parisians love their Vélib', with its more than 20,000 rental bikes distributed between 1,800 stations, some 300 meters apart. It is a cornerstone of a plan that has already reduced car traffic in the city by 20%. The system has also spread across the world like wildfire to hundreds of cities, indicating an international breakthrough for urban bike sharing.
Impact on car traffic reduction
In just a few years Paris has built the largest bike-sharing system in the west. Parisians love their Vélib', with its more than 20,000 rental bikes distributed between 1,800 stations, some 300 meters apart. It is a cornerstone of a plan that has already reduced car traffic in the city by 20%. The system has also spread across the world like wildfire to hundreds of cities, indicating an international breakthrough for urban bike sharing.
Financing through advertising
In just a few years Paris has built the largest bike-sharing system in the west. Parisians love their Vélib', with its more than 20,000 rental bikes distributed between 1,800 stations, some 300 meters apart. It is a cornerstone of a plan that has already reduced car traffic in the city by 20%. The system has also spread across the world like wildfire to hundreds of cities, indicating an international breakthrough for urban bike sharing.
Trial in smaller city (Lyon) and replication in Paris to develop ideal model
In just a few years Paris has built the largest bike-sharing system in the west. Parisians love their Vélib', with its more than 20,000 rental bikes distributed between 1,800 stations, some 300 meters apart. It is a cornerstone of a plan that has already reduced car traffic in the city by 20%. The system has also spread across the world like wildfire to hundreds of cities, indicating an international breakthrough for urban bike sharing.
Smart and Sustainable Paris
Anne Hidalgo, the first female mayor of Paris, has continued previous mayor Delanoë´s green transport policies with a host of actions, including 30 km/h speed limit zones, incentives for reducing car use, and plans to double cycle lanes and phase out diesel vehicles entirely by 2020. Furthermore, Paris, France’s National Earth Hour Capital of 2015, has launched a new Smart and Sustainable City project focused on smart city technology and participatory governance.
Incentives for reducing car use
Anne Hidalgo, the first female mayor of Paris, has continued previous mayor Delanoë´s green transport policies with a host of actions, including 30 km/h speed limit zones, incentives for reducing car use, and plans to double cycle lanes and phase out diesel vehicles entirely by 2020. Furthermore, Paris, France’s National Earth Hour Capital of 2015, has launched a new Smart and Sustainable City project focused on smart city technology and participatory governance.
Climate and Energy Action Plan
Anne Hidalgo, the first female mayor of Paris, has continued previous mayor Delanoë´s green transport policies with a host of actions, including 30 km/h speed limit zones, incentives for reducing car use, and plans to double cycle lanes and phase out diesel vehicles entirely by 2020. Furthermore, Paris, France’s National Earth Hour Capital of 2015, has launched a new Smart and Sustainable City project focused on smart city technology and participatory governance.