The new frontier in climate resilience
Driving a climate economy
The Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine takes climate innovators from startup to scale-up — reshaping the landscape of climate technology, economic and workforce development, and community engagement in sustainability.
Our hometown innovation accelerator worked tirelessly for 2 years to land one of the inaugural National Science Foundation Engine awards. Once won, there was an immediate deadline to launch. We wrote, designed and developed the website in 4 weeks.
The timeline was tight, and the guardrails were up. Our mission: Navigate stringent NSF brand standards while building a site that would push limits and land applicants.
The hub of environmental technology innovation
The CO-WY Engine is a national resource for a broad, bipartisan coalition of public, private and government stakeholders. The website speaks to climate in a way that connects with ALL Engine audiences, from government regulators to boots-on-the-ground Wyoming ranchers:
- Deliver key details to the most important group: folks applying for and being supported by the Engine.
- Demonstrate ROI to current and would-be program partners.
- Do the compliance dance for NSF and other government agencies.
Measure. Monitor. Mitigate.
Messaging matters. The three pillars bolstering the CO-WY Engine and the startups they support are environmental monitoring and predictive analytic measurements to mitigate the effects of a changing climate.
Presenting the case for climate resilience
You’ve been there: squinting at a slide with 800 words. The aha moments happen when we trim it down to key points with visual representations. The result? Digestible information, not eye charts.
Area of impact
Collaboration is easy to say, hard to do and even harder to show. Moving from an overcrowded map to a clear animation quickly communicates the interconnectedness and depth of the CO-WY Engine network.
Core Partners
Urban areas / cities
Tribal Lands
Community Colleges
Satellite Offices
Universities & Academic Institutions
Research Centers
Extension Offices
Federal Labs / Federally Funded
Economic Development
Policy
Corporation
Holding a brand to standard
A unified look, tone and message across platforms builds trust along with the brand. A brand guide and easy-to-implement design templates lay the foundation for every interaction with the CO-WY Engine.
- the brain processes images
60,000x faster
to process than text - 400% improved
learning with visual aids - 80% recall
with visuals vs. 20% with text or audio
