Climate Champions Facebook Application

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The Idea:

What will change in the world because this Project happens?

The Climate Champions Facebook application is a project of We Can Solve It aims to harness the existing social relationships and viral nature of the Facebook platform to empower people to educate their friends, family, classmates and colleagues about global warming and to engage a wider audience in helping to solve the climate crisis through a mix of activism and personal practices.

Our hope is that Climate Champions will significantly raise awareness of the climate change crisis and generate significant policy impact to help solve it. In addition, the application is structured to provide a win-win situation -- for every friend a user recruits, every petition they sign, etc., money will be donated to supporting climate change solutions via the We Can Solve It campaign.

What information will people interact with to make this change?

Users will be interacting with their own group of friends on Facebook as well as with petitions, other online actions, news articles, videos, etc., generated by the We Can Solve it campaign and fed into the Facebook app via several RSS feeds.

Cause Area:
- Environment
Cause Area Tags:
- Public & Social Benefit
Project URL:
http://apps.facebook.com/wecansolveit/
Supporting Organization:
We Can Solve It
Supporting Organization URL:
http://www.wecansolveit.org
Financial support?:
Yes
City:
Menlo Park
State/Region:
CA
Country:
USA

The Assessment

What kind of help or resources do you need to turn your project idea into a completed mashup?

The project is completed and the application can be added via Facebook.

Mashup Data Sources

Data is drawn from Facebook's API and from the We Can Solve It campaign web site and database - http://www.wecansolveit.org

The Team

Additional Project Idea Representative:	Matt Howes, We Can Solve It
Project Designer	Eve Fox, M+R Strategic Services
Project Engineer	Roz Lemieux, Todd Kamin