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Finalist Evaluation
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SUBJECT: Your proposal has been selected as a Finalist!
Congratulations! Your proposal, Urban Wood, in the Atypical Ideas for Carbon Neutrality in Somerville contest, has been selected to advance to the Finalists round.
Be proud of your accomplishment – more than 350 proposals were submitted and only a very small number have been advanced through these two rounds of judging.
As a Finalist, your proposal is eligible for the contest’s Judges Choice award, as well as the contest’s Popular Choice award, which is determined by public voting.
If you haven’t already, you will soon receive an email from the Climate CoLab staff with details about the voting period. If you don’t receive that email within the next day, or have other questions, please contact the Climate CoLab staff at admin@climatecolab.org
All winners will be announced the week after the voting period ends, on September 12, 2015 at midnight Eastern Time.
Both Judges Choice and Popular Choice will receive a special invitation to attend selected sessions at MIT’s SOLVE conference and present their proposals before key constituents in a workshop the next day, where a $10,000 Grand Prize will be awarded. A few select Climate CoLab winners will join distinguished SOLVE attendees in a highly collaborative problem-solving session. Some contests have additional prizes given by the contest sponsor.
Your proposal is especially effective in bringing to light an issue that Somerville must think about as it plans for carbon neutrality: life cycle costs of construction and new development. In addition, the suggestion of performance regulations is an interesting policy idea. While the carbon footprint impact may possibly be small (so much of Somerville is already built out), this is an innovative way to look at new development.
Thank you for your work on this very important issue. We’re proud of your proposal, and we hope that you are too. Again, congratulations!
2015 Climate CoLab Judges
Semi-Finalist Evaluation
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SUBJECT: Your proposal has been selected as a Semi-Finalist!
Congratulations! Your proposal, "Urban Wood: Somerville's Wood Construction Legacy and Future Carbon Neutrality" in the Atypical Ideas for Carbon Neutrality contest, has been selected to advance to the Semi-Finalists round.
You will be able to revise your proposal and add new collaborators if you wish, from July 1st until July 16, 2015 at 23:59pm Eastern Time.
Judges' feedback are posted under the "Evaluation" tab of your proposal. Please incorporate this feedback in your revisions, or your proposal may not be advanced to the Finalists round. We ask you to also summarize the changes that you made in the comment section of the Evaluation tab.
At the revision deadline listed below, your proposal will be locked and considered in final form. The Judges will undergo another round of evaluation to ensure that Semi-Finalist proposals have addressed the feedback given, and select which proposals will continue to the Finalists round. Finalists are eligible for the contest’s Judges Choice award, as well as for public voting to select the contest’s Popular Choice award.
Thank you for your great work and again, congratulations!
2015 Climate CoLab Judges
Proposal is reasonable and in line with movements in other parts of the world. Proposer outlines specific steps towards implementation of the proposal, which seem feasible. Impact is difficult to quantify; Somerville does not have much land left for the construction of new, higher, all-wood buildings. Presentation is compelling and worth a second look, especially if the plan can be applied more broadly (ie to other cities and towns).
Very interesting idea, especially with all the development we're expecting to see in Somerville.
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