Cardano4Climate Community Hub

OUR MISSION

Making the World Work Better for All People, Animals, & the Planet

Preserve * Regenerate * Co-Create * Support * Empower * Thrive

WHO WE ARE

What began as a challenge has become a community: Cardano4Climate

We are a community following the examples of the Project Catalyst Swarm & WADA; building on the principles of engagement, reliability, & sustainability.

The Snail

The snail he lives in his hard round house, In the orchard, under the tree:
Says he, "I have but a single room; But it's large enough for me."

-Anonymous

WHAT WE DO

In the past 3 months, we have grown a community around communication channels & a shared vision. Emerging from our social media channels, weekly meetings, monthly event, website, YouTube channel, & outreach both inside & outside of Catalyst is

a community hub of

• Support for the collaborative development of well-defined proposals through feedback, knowledge, & resource sharing related to climate change issues & mitigation, as well as the processes defined by Catalyst
• Moderated discussions to empower individuals to engage & take action..
• Connections to experts & teams within the Cardano & Catalyst Community: WADA, Swarm, Catalyst School, Climate Neutral Cardano SPOs, the Cardano Foundation & the IOG Impact team.

a resource base for

• Data & information related to Climate Change & SDGs,
• Referrals to relevant sources of information, trusted experts, & assistance
• Promotion of Catalyst & Cardano activities
• Climate related proposals in Catalyst
• Projects (on & off-chain) needing & giving support
• Documents tracking our activity to duplicate processes and to build trust through transparency

an online, global meeting place & time to

• Connect, collaborate, contribute, listen, learn, absorb & recharge.
• Bridge outside communities affected by climate change to applications on the Cardano blockchain
• Educate & promote sustainable solutions.
• Explore ways to bridge knowledge gaps.
• Offer continuous support & advice related to Project Catalyst processes.
• Collaborate with other community hubs throughout Project Catalyst.

to reach the highest in human collaboration to address humanity's greatest challenge: Climate Change

I M P A C T

The Global Problem

Climate change is a failure of cooperation

-Scott Poynton

Due to increasing activism and consumer consciousness, trillions of dollars are being pledged towards mitigating and reversing Climate change. Our current systems are inefficient. There exists a widespread lack of transparency, community trust & impact on a global scale. Solutions being proposed by world leadership are centralized & do not work for everyone. Where do communities in need turn?

A Scalable Solution

Two disruptions to our current situation on earth can not be ignored... Climate Change & Blockchain technology. One is a wicked problem; the other is positioned to become a major contributor to the solutions. The Cardano blockchain is sustainable while facilitating the world-wide scalability, transparency & traceability essential for the effective allocation of resources. These capabilities increase the trust needed to motivate off-chain communities to choose Cardano, the blockchain network best positioned to facilitate solutions for those concerned about carbon footprints.

Detailed Problem Description:

A community-driven project like Catalyst needs community organized events & meetings to connect ideas & initiatives, discuss & solve problems, & initiate collaboration. Without moderation, facilitation, coordination, & an action plan, energy & time is consumed by discussions without reaching a conclusion or direction for implementation.

Current & Proposed Solution:

The Cardano4Climate HUB is motivated by the language of the heart: purpose. The citizens of this culture are localized to the environment & systems in which they live, while being aware of the global impact of Climate Change. It is both the problems creating Climate Change & the ground-up solutions to mitigate it, that have drawn us together into a global community of many tongues, heads, hearts, & hands that reach into every corner of the globe. Cardano4Climate opens a space to speak our heart languages & gives a collective voice to this purpose through our social media channels, meetings, and event.

Target demographic:

The Catalyst community, individuals representing funded proposals and those applying for funding, non-government organizations & communities outside the Cardano network affected by &/or working to mitigate climate change.

Impact on the Challenge, Catalyst, Cardano & the Climate:

The 'F7: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs' challenge asks, "How do we encourage Local Community Hubs to drive adoption and awareness of Cardano in the next 6 months?" By providing the time & space for connecting individuals & teams, forwarding important announcements, collaborating with other Hubs, moderating various discussions on our Discord server & Telegram channel, hosting meetings and an organized event, Cardano4Climate has been directly addressing this challenge for several months now.

Cardano4Climate realizes an opportunity for Cardano to combine new blockchain models with ground-up, community driven challenges and solutions arising from climate change. Cardano gives power to all. Through Catalyst, we have access to an ecosystem of aligned individuals, as well as the conditions necessary for the creation of regenerative systems to heal us and our environment.

F E A S I B I L I T Y

References:

We are a global community of over 150 members, grown in 3 months around communication channels, meetings & a shared vision. 8 active core team members.

In the past 3 months we have hosted several Project Catalyst after town hall breakout rooms. Since mid October, we have hosted weekly 90 minute zoom calls. We moderate a Telegram channel & Discord server with more than 150 members as well as maintain a YouTube channel & website.

We have co-created a safe environment conducive to engagement

• Open discussions
• Consistent growth in participants
• Initiating ideation and collaboration
• Proposal improvement interactions
• Relevant content for Project Catalyst
• Transparent bottom-up design

Core Team & Roles:

• Allison - enthusiasm, finance, individual challenge initiatives
• Cem - professionalism, high quality video production, website design, presentations, business owner, programmer, leading Littlefish Foundation: Kiva-like DAO proposal
• Jakob - efficiency, creativity, moderation, hosting, organizing, presentations
• Melanie - creativity, empathy, co-facilitator, outreach to community groups focusing on preservation, education, organizing, social media moderation
• Nori - inclusivity, awareness, co-facilitator, organizing, collaboration, SPO, active Salmon Nation member
• Seomon - reliability, hosting, recording, website, GitHub, miro boards, Catalyst School & Swarm connection, proposal writing
• Tyler - engaged regenerative agriculture & mushroom farmer, ideation, writer, social media discussion facilitator
• Yoram - compassionate co-facilitator, organizing, NGOs, ideation, organization, regenerative agriculture, marketing, content, humor

Budget

• Subscriptions & webhosting: ~$125/month x 3 = $375
• Event Incentives & C4C Veritree contribution: $608
• Seed fund for C4C determined project: $1597
• Remuneration (3 UBI): 3 x 3 x $465* = $4185

*Based on $465/mon ~ UBI experiment, Stockton, CA, 2019

UBI [Universal Basic Income]

NOTE: C4C is working on describing/calculating our "collective labor" and "top-down wage" from the ground up... stay tuned.

Total: $6765:

AUDITABILITY

Milestones, Key Deliverables**:**(HUB: the central or main part of where there is most activity)

Ongoing:

• Weekly meetups & presence at Catalyst Townhalls
• Strengthen Core Impact Team through weekly check-ins
• Support C4C community connections, collaborations, education & initiatives
• Organize Monthly Event
• Upload videos to YouTube

Month 1

• Select C4C material & initiate translation into 1 or 2 main languages
• Collect existing educational material for onboarding off-chain communities
• Core Impact Team distributes remuneration by consensus
• Organize information in Telegram & Discord channels
• Create forms for community input & feedback
• Coordinate times with Eastern hemisphere to host bi-weekly C4C meetup
• Initiate selection of first incubation project through an application and due diligence process

Month 2

• Begin translation of selected material into 1 or 2 main languages
• Host bi-weekly eastern meetups
• Add Cardano educational component to Monthly Event
• "Translate" selected educational material related to the Cardano blockchain into language & terms understood by environmentalists, NGOs, & projects mitigating the effects of climate change
• Onboard & collaborate with first existing off-chain project
• Add bi-weekly C4C meetup for Eastern Hemisphere
• Begin selection process of 1 self-sustaining on-chain + off chain project

Month 3

• Organize Monthly Event
• Add Cardano educational component
• Add translation of presentation slides
• Initiate funding of first existing off-chain project
• Collect community feedback on
• Translation of material into 1 or 2 main languages for Events
• Continue to host bi-weekly C4C Meetup
• Initiate 1 self-sustaining on-chain + off chain project

Measurement of Success, Key Performance Indicators

• Grow Core Impact Team from 8 to 16
• Grow Telegram & Discord membership from 150 to 300
• Social media navigation improved as indicated by community feedback
• Content & activities for Monthly events fills 3+ hours
• Attendance at all events increases by 50% or more
• Translation of C4C specific material into 2 to 3 main languages
• Partial funding of one existing off-chain project
• 1 self-sustaining on-chain + off chain project has begun

Transparency

We are committed to improving the transparency of our process & decisions with increased accessibility of this information to all of our stakeholders. We have initiated a public GitHub repository where all ongoing tasks and actions will be tracked regularly. During the next fund, we will hold and record weekly planning meetings and record issues and resolutions on GitHub.

Our other Cardano4Climate proposals:

Climate Change: THE Challenge: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Climate-Change-THE-Challenge/382582-48088

Cardano4Climate Community Events: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Cardano4Climate-Community-Events/384076-48088

Littlefish Foundation Kiva-like DAO: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Littlefish-Foundation-Kiva-like-DAO/384063-48088

In collaboration with Treedano: NFTs for mature trees: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Treedano-NFTs-for-mature-trees/384504-48088

Join us Cardano4Climate: https://www.meetup.com/Cardano-Catalyst-Community-Network/events/

On Telegram: https://t.me/ClimateChange_THEChallenge

On Discord: https://discord.gg/gUP26qyqpe

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cardano4Climate

On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBEnbwS_KKCl-yt4uXMTsMg