Author Archives: Jonathan Cloud

We’re doing something that seems almost counter-intuitive: we’re asking you, and hundreds of other ordinary people, to donate money to an unusual kind of charity, to help us start what should result in a major economic boost to New Jersey.

This is a way of doing something about climate change that’s significant, personal and concrete. It’s significant because this program will remove millions of tons of carbon pollution each year. It’s personal because we’re cleaning up New Jersey (or, the planet, if you don’t live in NJ). And it’s concrete because this effort will create tons of jobs as energy efficient and renewable energy systems are installed.

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For the past several months, we’ve been working with a hydrogeological engineer and climate scientist in Australia, Dr. Delton Chen. Delton is the lead author on a remarkable proposal to address the problem of climate change via the use of a global alternative currency designed to support the mitigation of climate pollution through an incentive rather than a tax or cap-and-trade system.

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Delton approached us to sponsor his year-long project to develop a practical global policy response to the failure of the international community to agree on a strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Dubbed G4CM, for “Global Complementary Currencies for Carbon Mitigation,” the core of the proposal has now been put forward in multiple venues, even while some of the technical details are still be worked through with a team of international economists and climate experts. One of these venues is the Climate Colab, a project of the MIT Center for Intelligence, “a crowdsourcing platform where citizens work with experts and each other to create, analyze, and select detailed proposals for what to do about climate change.”

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You can get sneak preview of our crowdfunding campaign at http://bit.ly/1us8SQG. If you’d really like to support us, the best way to do this is to create a personal fundraiser page. You’ll be invited to import your contacts, which will begin to make this go viral… And stay tuned: we’ll be launching the campaign officially next week.