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Revision as of 18:02, 26 January 2011
For inspiration see Sustainability. For other funding see Scholarships
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Green Design Challenges and Competitions
National and International
Note: some of these are over, but it is still useful to look at the winners; some that are over will be will be offered again.
SocialEdge.org updates a list of opportunities
NextGen (Next Generation Challenge) sponsored by Metropolis magazine. Current challenge: [Get the Fed to Zero (lower energy consumption of 1960's gov't office bldg). Past winners.
MAKE Magazine, a major driver in DIY renaissance (and sponsors of the amazing Maker Faire in May), have a green category and contest.
Global Social Venture Competition, the world’s leading social business plan competition, is now open to entrants for the 2011 competition. Teams with at least one MBA or recent MBA grad can enter an executive summary of their business plan for the opportunity to gain global exposure, receive mentoring from leading social entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and compete for prize money.
The Yes Men: currently there's a design competition to counter the Chevron greenwash We Agree ads] Community Studies graduate Jen Lopez ('07) (video interview} talking about her career and working as a line producer with The Yes Men on their recent movie.
Myoo Create is a community for environmental and social innovation. Organizations post an environmental or social challenge with Myoo Create, offering a prize for the best solution. The Myoo Create community submits solutions to the challenge. The crowd votes and shares thoughts and feedback to help surface the best contributions. Winners are selected and prizes are allocated.
College Inventor $10-15K
Xprize has video contest for wild green ideas, high mileage cars, and will soon have other prizes for green design and entrepreneurship. 100 MPG car entry (video)
The Living City Design Competition: Visualizing the Future of Civilization. $75K (deadline 2/11)
Dyson Prize winners includes regenerative powered bike.
Living Climate Change has a Video Challenge which invited participants to show us their vision of a future shaped by climate change, as we move along the path toward reduced carbon emissions. More green videos
Innovate or Die bike design challenge. 2010 winner IDEO a bike that filters water. videos of all
Living Building design challenge and community
"Create the Future" Design Contest sponsored by PTC, COMSOL, and Tech Briefs Media Group (publishers of NASA Tech Briefs). Submit your innovative product ideas by June 30 for a chance to win $20,000 USD, other great prizes, and global recognition. There is no cost to enter. Visit www.createthefuture2010.com for complete details. Engineers, entrepreneurs, and students worldwide are invited to submit team or individual entries in six categories:
- Consumer Products
- Machinery/Equipment
- Medical
- Safety & Security
- Sustainable Technologies
- Transportation
CITRIS Big Ideas awards $30K in cash prizes for the best student ideas that demonstrate the ability of IT to address a major societal challenge. The IT for Society contest is open to students from all four CITRIS campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Davis. 2010 winners Winners will also be able to post their project on the Big Ideas marketplace, which allows people and organizations to make online donations to support specific student projects and initiatives.
The Great Power Race is a clean energy competition between students in China, India, and the United States. The aim is to kick-start hundreds of new climate solution projects on campuses and in communities in all three countries and to demonstrate to governments and businesses our generation's leadership in transforming our world towards a green economy.
Buckminster Fuller Institute site with video Here is 2009 winner of $100K prize and the runner-up [1] results announced June 3] live videostream of awards. New call for entries. Operation Hope, a solution combating one of the major causes of climate change has been named the winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The winner of this year’s Buckminster Fuller Challenge is an initiative that helps transform packed dry grasslands and savannahs into water-rich pastures. Operation Hope promotes managed cattle grazing, a technique that contradicts conventional beliefs on the effects of animals and soil preservation. audioList of more design challenges.
The Open Prosthetics Project: A project to create useful and innovative prosthetic devices and release the designs into the public domain. openprosthetics.org/
ONE Prize: Seeking architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds: How can we break the American love affair with the suburban lawn? Can green houses be incorporated in skyscrapers? What are the urban design strategies for food production in cities? Can food grow on rooftops, parking lots, building facades? What is required to remove foreclosure signs on lawns and convert them to gardens? The ONE Prize award is an international competition and it is open to everyone. The proposals can be for a real or speculative project, for one or more real sites, and located either in the U.S. or applicable to U.S. sites.March 31, 2010: Registration closes; April 30, 2010: Submission Due
EPA P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability. EPA head Lisa Jackson lays out the vision (video).
Design for the First World "Our fellows in the first world often come to visit and give us their well intentioned but often very problematic "solutions". We thought, why don’t we pay back? Dx1W is a competition for designers, artists, scientists, makers and thinkers in developing countries to provide solutions for First World problems. "
L Prize contest to create a better light bulb.
One Design Fix for the Future is looking for ONE design fix you can make now in your designed environment—the products you use, your home, your workplace, your city, or any commercial application—that, in scale or as inspiration, can improve our future. DEADLINE: January 29, 2010
The Betacup: Eliminating Paper Cup Wastage Through Collaborative Design
2009 Global Innovation Tournament Organized by Stanford University.
Global Cleantech Open is the world’s largest clean technology business competition.
International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells.audio interview
Planet Forward is a bottom-up effort on WWW and PBS to have public input into energy policy.
Recyclemania UCSC competes
PETA is offering an XPrize for test tube meat. See pro's and cons.
Engineers Without Borders - USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students. Research Challenges
PBS News Hour segment on student competition to build biological machines, for example for bio-fuels and remediation.
Local Challenges
IDEASS is a new, year-long course designed to advance sustainability education with real-world impact while enabling students to develop as change agents. This is your chance to implement service learning projects that bring about societal and environmental change on campus and in the Monterey Bay community As an IDEASS student, you will be trained to work in an interdisciplinary team to address technological, humanistic and societal aspects of environmental challenges in integrative ways. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics will be integral aspects of this interdisciplinary approach. Visit http://sustainability.ucsc.edu/ to complete the IDEASS application. Contact James Barsimantov and Tamara Ball at ideass@ucsc.edu for more information. Fall quarter course will be held on Mondays from 4-7 PM. Link
Entrepreneurship Incubator Orientation 10/5 UCSC's new Center for Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive year-long program that could result in funding and company/NGO start-up assistance.
UCSC Business Plan/Entrepreneur Competition. 2009 first prize $12,000. Story on 2009 winners. Support events start Jan 12; deadline is March?
UCSC Residents Hall Energy Savings Competition
CruzGreen, students will design a program using team competition to promote alternative transportation.
UCSC has allied with Lucid Design and the Alliance to Save Energy to enter the Campus Conservation Nationals to reduce energy use in November.
Santa Cruz Design Renaissance Challenge. Deadline 2/15/10. Submit Your Vision Help generate win-win solutions for the community, and spark a creative Design Renaissance. In 500 words or less, describe the problem, key players, and a vision which addresses a local sustainable design issue. The best projects will be invited to present at Design Renaissance April 24 2010. http://designrenaissance.net/
Local Resources
EcoLogic Design Lab: Seeking to innovate, create and educate, UCSC's EcoLogic Design Lab was formed to facilitate a transition from ego-centric to eco-centric in the built environment – from detached ecological awareness to expansive connection with the local ecology and environment using evolutionary awareness and design tools to create high performance design.
Video overview of Santa Cruz entrepreneur and design support, including the Design and Innovation Center and the Pilot Project on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (contact student coordinator, larae@ucsc.edu. Center phone 420.6414). It hosts a business plan competition.
