BITL: Happy New Year and Welcome 2017!

Happy New Year!
Dear Friends and Supporters,

Our Before It's Too Late team has made great leaps and bounds in the past six months. We've created a coalition of leading academic institutions, partnered with top VR agencies and identified our pilot production location in Southeast Florida. In honor of the new year, here is a list of our top 10 accomplishments of 2016.

In 2016, we..

1. Brought together a diverse and passionate team to bring Before It's Too Late to life
2. Built an interdisciplinary coalition of supporters at MIT (Sustainability Initiative, System Dynamics Group, Media Lab, Environmental Solutions Initiative,  Presencing Institute, Center for Collective Intelligence and Climate CoLab)
3. Received a Development Grant from the MIT Global Ideas Challenge
4. Initiated multi-university partnerships with Stanford’s Virtual Human Interactive Lab (VHIL), George Mason's Center for Climate Change Communications, Florida International University and University of Miami
5. Brought on industry leading VR advisors including Cosmo Scharf, founder or VRLA and Visionary VR
6. Partnered with VR production company OVRTURE and storytelling agency mssng peces
7. Spoke with grassroots and climate organizations including 350.org, BetterFuture, RepublicEN. Citizen's Climate Lobby, Climate Access, Climate Action Business Association, Young Republicans and Nature Conservancy
8. Began outreach to Hollywood directors and received positive feedback from Hollywood
9. Visited 12 different organizations in Miami in-person, including Coral Gables Mayor, James Cason, to initiate pilot production (see Blog for more!)
10. Catalyzed the start of a collective movement to address climate change...

This year we will be focused on developing our pilot BITL experience in Southeast Florida. We have partnered with the counties in the Southeast Florida Regional Compact to spearhead development. Be on the lookout for more periodic updates!

We want to thank you for your continued support in our project. We hope that our combination of art, science, and technology will change the hearts of people.

Sincerely,
The BITL Team