Hot news + hot earth = Hot Dish

Join new climate-action Facebook application, win rewards 2

If you haven’t already heard, Grist is tickled to be the editorial sponsor of Hot Dish, a climate change news-‘n’-activism Facebook app that has all the cool kids talking. It’s the brainchild of online social media and news aggregator NewsCloud,  made possible by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.  (Yours truly even had a hand in it.) Hot Dish is where online news meets real-world action to fight climate change.

Hot Dish on Facebook

Grist helps drive the conversation around the day’s top climate change news, and Hot Dish enables users to share it with each other within the comfy confines of Facebook. But wait—there’s more! Users can join the Action Team to complete challenges and earn points by, say, writing to a congressperson, setting up composting, or volunteering with an environmental group.

Hot Dish is aimed at spreading climate awareness both online and off, and for lucky 16- to 25-year-olds, it encourages eco-activism by featuring prizes for the most active weekly users. The grand prize winner will even land a trip for two to the Arctic with Quark Expeditions. The app is all-ages, but only those young’uns are eligible to win prizes. It’s all part of a University of Minnesota study on how youth interact with new media. Homework on Facebook? Sign me up!

Why “Hot Dish,” you may wonder? Because the news dished up is hot off the online presses and because the climate is getting too hot to handle. We can dish it out, but can we take the heat? Don’t wait to find out; join Hot Dish and kick climate change in the a- ... er, shin.

P.S. You can even follow Hot Dish on Twitter: www.twitter.com/hotdishnews

The science and multimedia-loving Ashley Braun writes, tweets, and Facebooks for Grist. And sometimes she does this for herself. You should follow her on Twitter, but not in real life. That’s called “stalking,” you creepster.

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  1. Easterbunny Posted 11:57 pm
    03 Mar 2009

    very nice, but it's brokenIn a wave of enthusiasm, I went off to join Hotdish. I'm a bit old for (and don't care about) the prize stuff, but I thought it would be nice to participate anyway. But the sign up page conflates the "join the hotdish community" (which is what I'd like to do) with "join the action team", which appears to be restricted to US residents. Furthermore, it won't let me get any further unless I check a box to say I agree with a set of official rules that explicitly excludes me as a Canadian. So then I clicked on the "contact us" button to point this out, and that also takes me to the same (broken) sign up page.
    Look, I understand the US needs to sort out its mess, but if you're into community building on the internet, national boundaries should be irrelevant - don't exclude us for'ners.

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  2. LaurieO Posted 3:31 am
    04 Mar 2009

    too oldI tried to sign up on the first day, and was told that I wasn't in the demographic you were looking for.  Even though I wasn't interested in prizes, the message that I got was bye-bye, Granny.  I'm glad that you're making this more clear now, but it was offensive to the, ahem, age-challenged.

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