SOLUTIONS ALREADY EXIST

We find what's working and help it grow. Solution Search is a contest, a global crowdsourcing effort, a convening of success stories, and a capacity building initiative. It blends behavioral science, conservation, and community action.

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Solution Search

Solutions to some of the world’s greatest conservation and development challenges exist in local communities around the globe. Many times, however, these solutions remain on the local level and go unnoticed by the larger community. What’s already working must be surfaced and spotlighted such that practitioners around with world can expand their impact as they replicate proven success. Solution Search is designed to do just that. As part of Rare’s Center for Behavior & the Environment (BE.Center), Solution Search surfaces, spotlights, and accelerates existing solutions that use behavioral science to help solve the world’s most challenging environmental issues.

Solution Search gave me the chance to raise my voice and started a process I couldn’t imagine possible. A better world is possible and I’m committed to contribute in the transition towards more sustainable food systems.

Kevin Farrera

Solution Search Food Security Prize Winner; Director, Desarrollo Alternativo e Investigación A.C

About Rare

Rare is an international environmental organization committed to conservation programs that benefit both people and nature. Rare recognizes that conservation ultimately comes down to people. So, conservationists must become as skilled in social change as in science. Rare specializes in designing and implementing on-the-ground programs to change behaviors of people that live in and around the world’s areas of highest biodiversity. Rare searches the globe for replicable, sustainable environmental success stories and then trains local conservation leaders to develop and market those proven practices in order to protect imperiled species without compromising basic human needs. Visit Rare on the Web at www.rare.org.

In 2017, Rare launched the Center for Behavior & the Environment (BE.Center) to promote and apply proven insights from behavioral science to tackle some of the most pressing environmental issues.

In doing this, the BE.Center is spearheading a movement that is as much about nature as it is about people.

By drawing from the latest research in economics, political science, social psychology, neuroscience and design thinking, and partnering with leading academic and research institutions, the BE.Center is translating the science of human behavior into practical solutions for conservationists worldwide.

Solution Search is just one way the world can learn about these promising approaches. Visit Rare’s Center for Behavior & the Environment.

When it comes to the environment, we often focus on problems. Instead we need to start asking the simple questions, what’s working and how can we do more of it? That’s exactly what Solution Search does.

Dan Heath

Former Rare trustee and co-author of NYT bestseller Made to Stick and Switch

A NOTE FROM RARE CEO, BRETT JENKS

You read the headlines about climate change or ocean acidification or species extinctions or overfishing, and you see that each of these are borne of human behaviors. We are the problem and therefore we need to be the solution. What is inspiring is how innovative solutions are everywhere. The Solution Search model unearths the most innovative solutions to our world’s biggest environmental challenges to find what is working and share those ides with the world.