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I am proud to live in a city that has a bold vision, relevant for our challenging times. Most people know Vancouver's agenda is to be the greenest city in the world. What you may not know is the civic government also wants to among the most open, collaborative, and community-minded in how it does governing. And they are willing to try out new ways to get there.

Vancouver's innovative crowdsourcing project — Talk Green To Us, launched this summer. The goals are twofold:

• Share the goals and themes their blue ribbon sustainabilitly panel came up with (education)
• Ask citizens to suggest new ideas, and vote for and comment on others, to help us get there (engagement)

The Communicopia office has been all a-buzz this past week after helping one of our NYC-based clients, Common Ground, launch their bold new campaign to house 100,000 homeless Americans by July 2013.

Being from Vancouver where homelessness is a top-of-mind issue, we were thrilled to work closely with the 100,000 Homes Campaign team because of their unique, integrated approach to solving this problem using a collaborative self-organizing systems approach.

Sharing their vision, passion, and model to grow a groundswell around this campaign makes it one of our most compelling websites of the year.

We love working for people who change the world, and this has to be one of the biggest stories of their impact yet. Last year we had the pleasure of working with our close friends at Biro Creative on a small project for Greenpeace UK. The idea for the campaign was simple – and simply brilliant.

One of our clients, BCSEA, scored a huge campaign victory last month when the B.C. provincial government announced renewed funding for the nearly defunct retrofit energy efficiency program, LiveSmart BC.

LiveSmart BC was created in 2008 to support the government's commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33% from 2007 levels by 2020. The portfolio included providing support to businesses through tax incentives for energy efficient vehicles – but it was the overwhelming response by homeowners to the retrofit incentives that made the program incredibly successful, meeting its 3-year goal of retrofitting 40,000 homes in just the first 15 months.

We recently received the fantastic news that TckTckTck.org has been nominated for best Activism website in the People's Choice Webby Awards. And we need your help to win!

Over the past year tcktcktck.org has become the hub of one of the biggest, most diverse movements in history; bringing together 15 million people calling for a fair, ambitious and binding climate agreement at the COP15 conference in Copenhagen last December. While our leaders did not give the world the deal we wanted, the climate movement is only beginning.

I spent most of 2009 in a leadership role on the TckTckTck global climate change campaign, leading their digital strategy, but also being pretty involved with most aspects of our constantly changing campaign and communications strategy.

In our all out effort to influence the outcome of the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, we tried a lot of new things in an extremely short period of time. On the digital and media sides of the campaign, one might say, we threw a lot of spaghetti on the wall to see what sticked (which is our culture – everything we do is so new we're always experimenting).

So it was really quite rewarding to hear that some of those experiments bore fruit, so much so that this week in Maimi, our campaign was recognized as a "Game Changer" with a prestigious award from the We Media media innovation conference.

On Thursday February 25, 2010, one of our long time clients, the UN Foundation will be featured once again on the Emmy-award winning television show, American Idol. The overall theme of the show is raising awareness and much needed funds to support the UNF's and others' efforts to help Haiti rebuild.

The last 3 months have been a whilrwind, helping the TckTckTck global climate campaign get ready for, and do some serious movement building, in Copenhagen.

After working a lot of 20 hour days during December, I'm still finding my feet again and hope to do some writing about what we learned together in what is probably the most diverse movement the world has ever seen.

It was a great honour to spend the weekend in New York with the amazing folks at 350.org, as they organized what has easily become the world's most widely distributed political action, and, for a time on Saturday, became the biggest media story in the world.

This, from one of the smallest NGO's on the planet, and probably one of the youngest – nearly everyone who works there is only a few years out of college! So how did they pull off something so massive with such a small team?

As part of our role managing the digital campaign for the TckTckTck campaign, we were right there in the centre of the aciton with them. Because I'm now too busy to write blog updates here, this is a re-print from what was sent out to my community on what happened, and how they pulled this magic off.

I just got back from New York City, where TckTckTck and Avaaz, with the help of dozens of our other global NGO partners, and hundreds of thousands of people around the world, pulled off something truly remarkable yesterday. Watch this: