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There's a lot of innovative programs and projects underway, so I wanted to share the latest exciting activities helping to fight climate change and what these groups are doing!
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What is XPrize?
This is an organization dedicated to helping the future of a better world. And they do this through competitions. They give a prize, if you can come up with a solution and make an actual model addressing one of the problems they have identified. They have different categories for the competitions and prizes, e.g. shake up the global food system; innovations to solve pandemics; understand and preserve rainforests; and for Carbon removal.
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In terms of the Environment, their Climate and Energy category is home to multiple competitions with some truly interesting entrees. From a clean way to make concrete to a device that absorbs C02 molecules out of the air, XPrize is fostering a new generation of invention.
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Both of these designs are incredibly innovative and I encourage you to visit the XPRIZE site to learn more about the competition and the XPrRIZE Foundation.
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And another thing I want to talk about is a competition the Foundation announced just two years ago on Earthy Day 2021. It's a $100m prize purse. XPRiZE Carbon Removal is trying to tackle the biggest threat currently facing humans: climate change. This competition is funded by Elon Musk and requires each team to make a model that can remove 1,000 tons of CO2. per year. This would really help address the climate change environmental crisis.
I do encourage supporting the XPRIZE Foundation not just for the climate change competition, because all the competitions they have are to make a better world for tomorrow.
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If you’d like to learn why I believe these prizes are important to our generation, go to my Blogs for Humans.
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Their Mission:
Every single day we’re working to create a better world, a world of infinite possibilities. A more hopeful future for all. A world where everyone’s days are spent imagining, creating, and collaborating, not fearing and fighting. A world where everyone has access to clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, effective learning, top-tier medical care and non-polluting, abundant energy.
The Earthshot prize is a series of five competitions founded by Prince William of Wales in five categories:
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Protect and Restore Nature
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Clean Our Air
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Revive Our Oceans
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Build a Waste-Free World
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Fix Our Climate
Each competition awards a one million dollar (or 937,890.00 Eruos) prize, and the competitions repeat every year over the course of a decade, from 2021-2031.
In Prince Williams’ words:
“People can achieve great things. The next ten years present us with one of our greatest tests – a decade of action to repair the Earth.”
If you’d like to learn why I believe these prizes are important to our generation, go to my Blogs for Humans.
If you’d like to see their website, go here.
The organization's goal:
Inspiring climate action by engaging people in activities that immerse them in a positive empowering clean-tech message through their global challenge based on five Earthshots – ambitious goals for 2030 to fix our biggest environmental problems.
The Elevate Prize actually consists of three different awards:
The Elevate Prize Get Loud Award provides $10,000 every month to a different grass routes organization – smaller local groups that affect their local area. Groups are nominated by everyday people like you and me.
The Elevate Prize Catalyst Award is granted to famous people who use their influence to do good, such as the Trevor Noah Foundation (founded by the comedian and late-night talk show host). This organization is a youth development program to help prepare youth for higher education or entry into the workforce.
Unlike the two previous awards, the biggest award The Elevate Prize is a competition with over ten winners and $5 milion in funding and services. One example is Miami Water Keeper which works to provide clean water for all, while combatting climate change.
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To learn why I think it's important for kids like us to know about these prizes for climate change innovations, go to my Blogs for Humans here.
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To learn more about The Elevate Prize, go to their website here.
The organizations's goal:
To Make Good Famous – so that people can find, follow and celebrate impact leaders – and get inspired to drive progress themselves.
