Examining solutions to the various climate crisis(water contamination, ocean temperature increases, CO2 emissions) that the world faces, Julia Bossman moderates an expert panel of Carl Ganter, Michael Mayernick, Tom Rivett-Carnac, Megan Smith, and Vanessa Grellet at #Ethereal Davos 2019. Carl Ganter, Founder of Circle of Blue presents photos of Earth as he details the water disasters around the world and how his firm uses data to help solve these issues. Vanessa Grellet, Executive Director of Social Impact efforts at ConsenSys presents how public and private partnerships can use technology to accelerate versions of the future. Megan Smith, Founder of shift7 expands on her company’s mission to use the collective genius of communities to transform people, places, and systems. Michael Mayernick, Global Chair of Sandbox, researches networks of people and novel systems of governance to tackle long and short term challenges. Tom Rivett-Carnac, Founder of Global Optimism shares his views about the current environmental impacts and the various steps that the world can take to prevent further damage. The panel discusses how people can move from “feel-good” activism towards practical steps to making real impacts to drive public policy. Vanessa explains how blockchains and decentralization can bring about resilient and self-sustaining communities. Michael and Vanessa examine how there are internal and data biases with AI and how they can be solved. Finally, the group examines how to extract behavior insights from data to enhance decision making. To learn more about Circle of Blue visit: https://www.circleofblue.org/ About Shift7: https://shift7.com/ About Spinnakr: https://www.spinnakr.com/ About Sandbox: http://sandbox.is/ Social Impact at ConsenSys: https://consensys.net/social-impact/