Google’s “Project 10 to the 100″
Project 10 to the 100 is an initiative by Google to help save the world. And not to go all Chicken Little, but it’s becoming painfully clear that the world does need saving 
As part of their ten year birthday celebration They’ve earmarked $10,000,000 to fund up to five projects with the potential to have a positive impact on the world in areas such as alternative energy, public health, or housing. The cool thing is that anyone can submit an idea through the project web site. The massive pool of submissions will first be weeded out by what I’m sure is a ridiculously smart panel of Googlers, and the top twenty will be put to vote by the public sometime early next year.
What a brilliantly simple example of crowdsourcing for the greater good. Seriously heavy stuff.
And if anyone can make it happen, Google can. They’ve got money comin’ out the search box. What is $10,000,000 dollars to them? A day’s worth of ad revenue? A week’s budget for Naked Juice? An open bar at a holiday party? Which is not to say I don’t think this is awesome. I admire their optimism and mandate, and if other companies had this strong a sense of social responsibility, I think that we’d all have a lot less problems that need solving in the first place.
Submit your world-changing idea by October 20th!
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