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Crowdsourcing Environmental Policy? ‘Reframe It’ Offers a New Way of Interacting with the Web (and a cash prize)

Have you ever wanted to leave a comment about a specific sentence on a web page but had not platform to do it on? Have you ever come across a picture or a graph that was missing the bigger picture and had no way to communicate that information to a wider audience? Fret no more, your solution may be here (along with $1,000).

Reframe It was designed to become a natural extension of the web by creating a space for you to engage the material and share your thoughts with a small community, or a large one. What the folks at Reframe It are trying to do is transform the public web by creating a virtual margin alongside any web page on which users can post comments to be shared with other users and read what others have written. By creating this space on the web, newspapers, bloggers, companies, governments, non-profits and individuals are able to hold one another accountable for the information they convey and withhold from the public.

Got it so far? Now here’s the good part.

Red, Green and Blue has teamed up with the social media start-up Reframe It to bring a completely new level of transparency on energy and environmental issues to the presidential election. For the person that builds the most impressive collection of comments, links, bookmarks, pertaining to energy and environmental issues for the two presidential candidates will take home $1000. There are also cash prizes for the runners up.

For the latest details, check out Jeff McIntire-Strasburg’s post at Red, Green and Blue.

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This post was written by: Timothy B. Hurst

Tim Hurst is the founder/editor of ecopolitology and executive editor of LiveOAK Media. Tim mostly covers energy and environmental politics, renewable energy and green business; but seems to write more about music festivals in the summer for some reason. When not reading, writing, thinking, or talking about environmental politics to anyone who will listen, Tim likes to ski, hike with his aging labrador, and toil in his Colorado vegetable garden. He's on twitter at @ecopolitologist.

One Response to “Crowdsourcing Environmental Policy? ‘Reframe It’ Offers a New Way of Interacting with the Web (and a cash prize)”

  1. Zach says:

    Another useful tool for crowdsourcing environmental policy is PolicyPitch.com, which is a crowd-powered community platform for pitching new ideas and local policies for change in your neighborhood or town.

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