Partners

Building Foundations with Great Partners

At Creative Climate Lab, our foundation partners are essential to our mission of transforming science into story. These collaborations deepen our impact by uniting research, fieldwork, and creative expression under a shared purpose: to drive climate action. By aligning with these organizations we amplify each other’s strengths across disciplines. Together, we create a more powerful, unified response.

The Ice Preservation Institute was formed from a decades long friendship between some of the fathers of the early Internet.

The group, including Vint Cerf and Steve Crocker, reunited in 2020 through Zoom, with a desire to find a novel, high-impact climate problem they could turn their attention to. Recognizing the urgent need to address sea level rise and the global ice melt that fuels it, they built relationships with leading glaciologists and diverse leaders to establish Ice Preservation.

Ice Preservation will engage in an impact-oriented program of engagement, modeling and fieldwork to explore how to strategically manage water to slow ice flows and consequent loss.

Creative Climate Lab is partnering with Ice Preservation to unpack their efforts in engaging and entertaining ways to extend the visibility of their important work to more people and scale.

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Vint Cerf is one of the fathers of the Internet and serves as Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet and is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols. Vint is no stranger to large-scale change, having made critical impacts at DARPA, ICANN, ISOC, and more. Honors: US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the US National Medal of Technology and the IEEE Medal of Honor. Vint and accomplished peers Steve Crocker, Bob Axelrod, and Baruch Fischhoff conceived the Ice Preservation Institute after realizing its approach could have tangible global impact.

Alex Luebke has led climate related programs like grid scale energy storage, zero emission fuels and carbon sequestration technologies. With a Doctorate in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Alex has delivered over 10 commercial and government satellites to orbit and is a leader in Silicon Valley startups. Alex later worked for Alphabet Inc.’s “moonshot factory” GoogleX, developing technology to mitigate climate change. But he realized that mitigation wasn’t enough to solve the problem — and what was needed to protect our civilization was climate interventions “to hold the planet together just long enough that we can fix all the other things.”

Conservation Diver Koh Tao coral monitoring

Conservation Diver is a US-based nonprofit focused on ocean conservation through community empowerment and hands-on SCUBA-based training.

They support local reef managers and divers worldwide by providing specialized education in ecological monitoring, marine protection, and habitat restoration, establishing community-run conservation centers, and offering resources like scholarships and grants to foster a global network of marine conservationists.

Their impact is demonstrated by the growing network of certified students, the establishment of new training centers, and the tangible ecological and social improvements within the communities they support.

CCL will be partnering with Conservation Diver centers on upcoming activations.

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Chad Scott is a marine ecologist, educator, and co-founder of Conservation Diver, a global nonprofit dedicated to advancing coral reef science and training the next generation of marine conservationists. He is also the founder of the New Heaven Reef Conservation Program, where he developed the Ecological Monitoring Program — a reef monitoring protocol in use since 2008 that has contributed to numerous scientific publications and biodiversity discoveries in Southeast Asia. His work bridges the fields of ecology and education, with curricula that have been taught to thousands of students, divers, and budding scientists across three continents.