The world's first online hackathon to help fix the climate
- 🗓 2nd-30th August
- 🏆 Prize value of $10k+
- 🌎 Open to everyone
- 2nd-30th August, Prize value of $10k+, Open to everyone
What is a climate fixathon?
It’s a 4-week online hackathon for individuals or teams to use their tech skills to build and launch projects intended to help fix the climate. Several people are trying to use blockchain technology to store climatic data safely. Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology have widely become popular. Traders who do not have time to monitor their trading frequently can use auto trading platforms. Take the Bit Index AI test to find a reliable trading bot.
What should
I make?
Any website, app or service that aims to help restore a safe climate for our planet.
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Awareness
Most likely to raise awareness of climate breakdown.
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Action
Most likely to help people take action against climate breakdown.
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Facilitation
Most likely to make climate breakdown related tech projects easier to create in the future.
What can I win?
If your project is selected as the winner of our Action, Awareness or Facilitation award you’ll receive:
Winners
$1,500
Cash for your team to spend- + Free Sketch licenses
- + Free Egghead.io licenses
- + Free Kirby licenses
- + Free Drawkit illustrations
- + 100 trees planted by Offset Earth
- + 3,000 boost currency from Gizer
Runner ups
$300
Cash for your team to spend- + 25 trees planted by Offset Earth
- + 300 boost currency from Gizer
The ZEIT Award
$300
Judges
Meet our panel of tech experts who will be responsible for selected the Fixathon winners.
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Simon Collison
Designer, writer, occasional speaker. Director of New Adventures @naconf.
@colly -
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Founder Ness Labs, running MakerMag, ex Google and creator of #diversity30.
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Justin Jackson
Working with SaaS companies since 2008. Building Transistor.fm.
@mijustin -
Veni Kunche
Founder or Diversify Tech and Code With Veni. Sr. Software Engineer at USGS.
@venikunche -
Cennydd Bowles
Design, ethics, futures · Author of Future Ethics.
@cennydd -
Charli Prangley
Designer at ConvertKit. Co-host of the Design Life Podcast.
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James Singleton
James is the author of ASP.NET Core 2 High Performance and he blogs at unop.uk.
@shutdownscanner -
Michelle Thorne
Michelle leads Mozilla’s Open Internet of Things Studio.
@thornet -
Fajar Siddiq
Serial Entrepreneur + Indie-Maker + Producer + Professional Yo-Yo Player.
@fajarsiddiqfs -
Charlie Gerard
Front-end dev at Atlassian. Google Dev Expert in Web Tech and Mozilla Tech Speaker.
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Chris Adams
Co-organiser Climate Action Tech, director of the Green Web Foundation.
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Cat Friend
1password growth manager and ocean advocate.
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Paras Chopra
Founder & Chairman of VWO, market-leading A/B testing and conversion optimization platform.
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Steph Smith
Maker of eunoia.world, femake.tech, nomadhubb.com, begreat.me
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Christopher Skillicorn
Designer at ZEIT. Started Wulkano, a digital collective of sorts, and helped create Kap.
@skllcrn
Sponsors 🙌
Our prizes would not be possible without the support of these awesome companies and makers.
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Over one million designers use Sketch to transform their ideas into incredible products, every day.
sketch.com -
High quality, concise web development screencasts. Coding with expert open-source contributors.
egghead.io -
VWO is an all-in-one conversion optimisation platform to help marketers & product managers increase conversions & online sales.
vwo.com
Winners
In August 2019 makers from around the world competed in The Climate Fixathon creating products to help fix the climate. Find out below which products won our Awareness, Action and Facilitation awards.
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👁️ Awareness
Most likely to raise awareness of climate breakdown.
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Winner
HQ→CO2
HQ→CO2 juxtaposes random pairs of images: the headquarters of high-emissions fossil fuel companies, and places around the world being affected by global warming.
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Runner up
Shift
Shift your electricity consumption to times when grid production is at its least carbon intense.
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👊 Action
Most likely to help people take action against climate breakdown.
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Winner
Climate 365
Climate 365 is digital protest against climate change. Connect your email to send one email per day for 365 days to representatives of the 365 most polluted cities across the globe.
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Runner up
Leave Me Alone
Emails contribute to 986,000 tonnes of CO2 being dumped into the atmosphere every day. Unsubscribe from unwanted subscription emails and reduce your carbon footprint.
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🛠️ Facilitation
Most likely to make climate breakdown related tech projects easier to create in the future.
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Winner
Trip to Carbon
A simple carbon footprint data API for transport.
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Runner up
Warming Potential
The world’s first API for Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA). Calculate the warming potential of thousands of commodities with a single request.
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The ZEIT Award is presented to the top Fixathon project deployed to ZEIT Now.
Imogen and Josh built an API and an app utilising it. Both projects have been selected as winners.
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Winner
Warming Potential
The world’s first API for Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA). Calculate the warming potential of thousands of commodities with a single request.
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Winner
Forkful
View the nutritional benefit and environmental impact of thousands of recipes at a glance, and make a thoughtful choice with every forkful.