Our actions in the next 10 months could determine the future of our planet.
We don't have a day to waste.
Our Story
Around the world, innovators and local leaders are developing critical solutions to fight the climate crisis.
Tools that empower people, while making our planet cleaner, healthier, and more resilient.
These innovations could be making an impact around the world.
But today, they're isolated in their local contexts.
Time to Solve is an effort to spread sustainable innovations through an open-source framework.
So that anyone -- students, teachers, makers, leaders -- can locally adopt + build on critical projects.
And instead of waiting to take action, we can start leading sustainable transitions in our communities -- today.
Community Sharing Economies
An open-source framework for the sharing economy, providing a base technical layer from which anyone can prototype + design new sharing applications.
Like Common Bike -- an initiative for open-source, people-first micromobility.
Mass Market Electification
Instead of manufacturing 500 million new electric cars and buses, we can convert existing vehicles to electric.
Transition One is already demonstrating this -- offering a faster, more sustainable, and broadly affordable path to zero-emission transportation.
ESCo Financing
A ESCo (Energy Service Company) provides people and communities with sustainable infrastruture. The beneficiaries pay the same utilities, but now to the ESCo, so it can recoup the investment throught the clean energy generated.
FAQs
What kind of solutions?
Solutions like the open-source shared mobility.
So instead of allowing our cities to become overrun by e-scooter and ride-sharing companies, we can enable communities to build that infrastructure.
For example: neighborhood bike sharing, car sharing, tool libraries, and whatever other applications people dream up.
And instead of yet another system built to commodify people, we have a sustainable system built for people.
Who's involved?
Several innovative leaders, companies, and dedicated technology partners are on board with the effort and interested in collaboration.
Specific roles and partnerships will be determined when Time to Solve has the funding to officially get undewray.
With knowledge, inspiration, and support from a lot of people, Sam has built Time to Solve up to this point.
Build network (local + distributed) of innovators, SMEs, and community leaders
Create the Solve Hub residence space(i)
Winter 2019
Deploy first round of projects
Support and evaluate deployment
Identify teams + collaborators for next round of projects
Open Solve Hub for residence
Focus Areas
Broken Systems
We're subsidizing our most harmful industries (fossil fuels, factory farming, industrial agriculture), because the real costs -- in terms of drinking water, soil and the air we breathe -- of those industries is hidden.
Water Crisis
Across Asia and the Americas, communities depend on runoff from glaciers for water and agriculture.
Those glaciers are vanishing, putting the water reserves for 4 billion people at stake.
Unsustainable Cities
Smog. Sprawl. The privatization of public infrastructure. Miles and miles of waste.
The way our cities behave today is not compatiable with a future that we want to live in.
Once we account for the value of vital resources -- think water, soil, and clean air -- we can see the industries and supply chains doing the most damage.
Simply by putting honest prices on the tag, we can start incentivizing sustainability instead of pollution.
Our Work
Collaborate with innovators (Focafett) to build tamper-proof public database and supply chain validation.
Through visualization and transparency, make resource costs legible for consumers.
Environmental protection and sustainable innovation are supported by the majority. But across the world, political systems have been twisted into a tool to favor the few over the many.
A ESCo (Energy Service Company) provides people and communities with sustainable infrastruture. The beneficiaries pay the same utilities, but now to the ESCo, so it can recoup the investment throught the clean energy generated.
This model empowers rapid CleanTech development, with a clear path to returns.
Our Work
Build ESCOs w/ wealth funds and foundations, and implement them for future-proof infrastructure (retrofitting homes, vehicle electrification)
Nature-friendly and minimally intrusive, tiny silicon beads can reflect harsh sunlight and protect the surrounding ice.
Our Work
Collaboration with Ice911 to support their efforts, learn how the beads are produced, the geographic availability of raw materials and production, and explore trials on continental glaciers.
Floating Solar
Over lakes and reservoirs, floating solar panels can preserve freshwater stores while generating new energy.
With a vertical model, floating solar could protect glaciers on the terrain below.
Our Work
Explore wider implementation of floating solar in underleveraged areas, and collaborate with researchers to design vertical concepts for glacier protection.
Micromobility vehicles, like electric bicycles and scooters, are 100x more efficient than gas cars.
With innovations in software and electronic locks, we can build transportation platforms that look much like the Birds and Limes of today -- but owned by people, so the profits go back to people.
Our Work
Jumpstart development of Commons Sharing Platform (Common Bike, Common Scooter, Common Tools) as Public Code
Circular Economy
The average cotton shirt costs 600 gallons of water -- and 87% of our textiles end up in landfills or incinerated. That means, with every new shirt, we lose 512 gallons of water.
With resource consumption set to double by 2050, we have to reduce, resuse, and repair across industry.
Through existing industry knowledge and True Cost Accounting, determine the most impactful and realistic opportunities for circularity. Share this knowledge with those industries, and connect producers who can realize it.
Create a Token Curated Registry for sustainable businesses, enabling dollars to flow into circular economies and catalyze them.
Electrification
Electric cars reduce emissions by 50% -- and when powered by solar energy, that figure jumps to 95%. But we don't have the time or resources to replace the 1.2 billion cars on our roads today.
We see the electrification of gas vehicles as the sustainable bridge. With innovations in solid state batteries, they're lightweight and powerful enough to replace combustion engines in most of our cars today.
Our Work
Identify the car models producing the most CO2 emissions (# of cars, average distance traveled, fuel efficiency). Beginning with these models, develop an electrification guide for both independent mechanics and corporate repairs. Explore Tesla's service model and solid state battery producers (QuantumScape, Enovate)
In the words of Jeremy Grantham, the co-founder and chief investment strategist of Grantham, Mayo, & van Otterloo ($118 billion in assets under management):
We took out each of 10 major groups and ran consistently with the other 90 ... There's 50 basis points difference between the best and the worst.
They're all the same.
If you go in there and take out fossil fuels, your starting assumption is not death and destruction. Your starting assumption ... is that it will have very little effect, and it's just as likely to be positive (by 17 bips) as negative.
If I were you, as investors, I would make sure (if you have a long-range horizon) you absolutely, categorically avoid chemicals as well as absolutely avoiding fossil fuel companies.
They face a headwind.
Our Work
Empowering investors and funds with this knowledge. Collaborate with groups like the Grantham Foundation, creating innovative and high-output campaigns to disseminate this knowledge and have an impact.
Regenerative Agriculture
Trees and forests are our greatest carbon capture technology. Saving tropical rainforests can produce 6x the results of electric cars.
Our Work
Build a database for regional and local permaculture, empowering people around the world to green their communities with the most positive impact.
Oceanic Forests
Seaweed farms are oceanic forests, and can sequester 5x as much carbon as land-based plants.
More, seaweed has as much protein and amino acids as beef (per gram), as well as fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin K, folate, Vitamin B12, and Omega 3.*
And it can even replace plastics in single-use packaging.
*NOTE: As beneficial as it may be, there are dangers to both overharvesting wild seaweed and overconsuming it. This is why responsible, cultivated seaweed farms are so important, and be careful when you eat -- you can get all you need in just 5 grams!
Our Work
Connect with GreenWave and Zeewar to understand international applications of 3D Ocean Farming. Research consumption levels for high-quality seaweed with Wageningen. Determine development locations of strategic importance, where seaweed farms can help protect the marine ecosystem and contribute to a local circular economy (food, plastic, byproducts)
By reducing our meat consumption and incorporating healthy + sustainable nutrition, we can reduce 70% of our carbon emissions -- while saving $1 trillion every year in health-care costs and lost productivity.
Our Work
Eco Impact Visualization
A database for food producers and restaurants to track their environemental impact data, and publicly visualize that data. Introduces the selection + quality of sustainable foods to new communities, while helping consumers understand the impact of their food choices.
New Learning
As our communities and systems change, we need to prepare for that transition, and understand our how our roles and responsibilities will evolve.
Our Work
Create practical and effective learning materials -- including stories, games, and experiences -- to provide support and understanding for people as we traverse these changes.
Liberty Gardens
75 years ago, Americans planted nearly 20 million gardens across the U.S.
Today, a coordinated home gardening movement could help save our soil, drastically reduce our carbon emissions, and help feed society.
Our Work
Building on resources like cocoons and seed tape, create fun + simple tools that empower a sustainable gardening revolution.
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