Prizes

As a ClimateSpark reviewer or contestant, you can earn points that increase your odds of winning great prizes in our weekly draws. You earn points by providing a ten-star rating, a comment or an improvement suggestion for any venture proposal. And remember, you can come back and change your ratings or comments in response to changes in the proposal at any time. If your ideas are really constructive, our constestants may also decide to award you some bonus points, so do your best to provide valuable constructive feedback!

We'll also be offering snap prizes every week.  Win a LIve Green Toronto loot bag containing an LGTO reusable bag, stainless steel water bottle, LGTO T-Shirt, pen and paper pad.  We'll draw from everyone who has posted a rating or comment on the snap draw day.

Here's what you could win!

Get around in style on this city ready scooter! 

The Kymco People S 50 is a fuel efficient 4 stroke scooter that is both environmentally friendly as well as exceptionally economical - and it looks fantastic too! The People S 50 offers unparalleled comfort and style in its class with a big wheel design that improves ride quality and comfort. Inspired by European design and loaded with impressive features such as indigo lighting on the instrument cluster, this scooter is equipped with everything you need for your urban commute!  Read more about this fantastic ride!  

Thanks to Live Green Toronto for supplying this fabulous prize.

Wow your friends and workmates with this cool gadget

Be part of one of Toronto's coolest collaboration and work spaces.  Your hot desk at the Centre of Social Innovation is a great launch pad for your organization or business.  Join dozens of other innovators in a place that lives and breathes creativity and innovation and benefit from the Centre's resources and happenings.

AutoShare is Toronto's premiere car sharing service with a great line up of vehicles, including plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles.  Avoid the hassles of car ownership while enjoying the convenience of car sharing. AutoShare is providing four Get Rolling packages valued at $250.  That pays for your AutoShare membership with an additional $100 driving credit.

The Hot Docs Film Festival is offers a fabulous chance to be entertained and informed by some of the world's best documentary filmmakers.  The annual festival is jam packed with great films and full houses, but all you'll need is popcorn money thanks to the two 10-pack Festival passes we are giving away. 

 A $50 voucher for a wide variety of ethical products, from cosmetics to electronics, available through Ethical Ocean. 

Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics is providing a great selection of products in a $50 gift basket.  Get your bubble bath ready.

Take some friends or maybe out-of-town visitors for a waterside tour of Toronto courtesy of Mariposa Cruises.  We are giving away six adult passes for Mariposa's popular Scenic Harbour Tour.  Discover a side of Toronto you've never seen!

 A $100 gift certificate for some top quality MEC gear.  Enjoy the great outdoors in style.

Rahul Bhardwaj , President & CEO of the Toronto Community Foundation.  As well as running one of Toronto's most dynamic philanthropic foundations, Rahul has participated in numerous blue-ribbon panels, advisory groups and boards.  He is a former corporate lawyer, so he knows his way around business as well.  Lunch with a man named one of the "Next Generation of Toronto Civic Leaders" by The National Post.

Tonya Surman, Executive Director, Centre for Social Innovation. As founding executive director, Tonya imagines the Centre as space that sparks creativity, connectedness and fun. Before this, she channeled her overzealous optimism into a national coalition of organizations working on children's environmental health, a social enterprise offering e-mail to activists and an edgy online news hub for Canadian progressives. Between these experiments in social entrepreneurship, Tonya has found the time to create a coop daycare, host chaotic street parties and create community gardens. She is also the mother of two wonderful boys which, in the end, is what matters most.

Alice Klein, Editor, NOW Magazine. Named in 2000 as one of the 100 Graduates Who Shaped the Century by the U of T Alumnae Association, NOW magazine editor/CEO and co-founder/owner Alice Klein draws on her experience in politics, business and psychology to focus on issues related to archetypal evolution and the global economy. She is NOW's founding news editor, as well as a documentary producer, director and writer (2007's Call of the Hummingbird).  Alice is a founding member of Green Enterprise Toronto (GET) and she sits on the Boards of the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE).

Don Tapscott, Author and consultant.Don is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 hit The Digital Economy changed thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet and two years later he defined the Net Generation and the “digital divide” in Growing Up Digital. His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas like “the business web” and was described by BusinessWeek as “pure enlightenment.” Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages.