Program to address the role of architects in designing buildings to meet the challenges of climate change “Climate Adaptive Design: Building Science Meets Climate Science” takes place Nov. 3 at The Collider, a nonprofit innovation center for climate in Asheville [Oct. 15, 2017 – Asheville, North Carolina]: Wildfires in California. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria. Floods … Read More
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Intern Spotlight: Harper Spires
Harper Spires is The Collider’s Fall 2017 Thomas R. Karl Intern, tackling various projects related to fundraising and donor database management, as well as providing event and administrative assistance as needed. Read More
Globe had 2nd warmest year to date; 3rd warmest August on record
The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for August 2017 was the third highest for the month of August in the NOAA global temperature dataset record, which dates back to 1880. Read More
What are climate solutions?
You’ll notice that under the “The Collider” logo sits the tagline, “Market-Driven Climate Solutions.” This is, in fact, what we at The Collider are all about. Read More
A timely warning about meddling with water
The narrator of The Memory of Fish, a documentary about a campaign to remove a pair of superfluous dams in Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, sums up the essential problem early on: “The river was broken.” Read More
Women in science rock!
We love what we do at The Collider, helping to create a place where business innovators, entrepreneurs and climate and data scientists can collide to create solutions for climate change. Read More
2016 State of The Climate Report
The 2016 State of the Climate report confirms that 2016 surpassed 2015 as the warmest year in 137 years of recordkeeping. Land and ocean temperatures, sea level, and atmospheric greenhouse... Read More
Welcome to Climate City
Asheville, North Carolina. First it was dubbed the Paris of the South and the San Francisco of the East. Then came Beer City, Bee City, and recently it landed on Travel and Leisure’s list of the Top 15 Cities in the U.S. After all, in the center of downtown Asheville, there are drum circles, art galleries, breweries, world-class eateries, and Read More
The Collider: 2016 Year in Review
The Collider officially opened its doors in March 2016 in Asheville, North Carolina – Climate City. We invite you to join in celebrating a great first year by taking a look back at some of the milestones. Thank you for your continued support. January / February 2016: The Collider begins to take shape ♦ The long-held dream of … Read More