About Goaloop + the GCR

The Goaloop Climate Report (GCR) shows the changes in three critical climate metrics (global temperature, carbon dioxide, and sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean), using data collected by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

The GCR evolved from a goal that was set on Goaloop.com on January 22, 2017, which is still active today: goaloop.com/goaloop/climate

Goaloop.com is a new system that helps you reach your goals and connects the world through goals. In beta, Goaloop.com scales from your one personal goal to goals all over the world, connecting us by the common denominator of what we are seeking to achieve. The Goaloop Climate Report is an example of Goaloop.com’s ability to mobilize collective resources around goals. 

Noting the stock market report is a staple of daily newscasts, with its up and down arrows directing many, and knowing that climate change will increasingly impact the economy, the GCR posits climate metrics within the same visual context to bring attention to the status of our climate, and to likewise motivate us to take action to turn those red arrows upside down so they are green.

The numeric values of the GCR are meant to cut through perceptual uncertainties of climate change, perpetual reports of ‘bad weather,’ complex climate statistics, and each month focus our attention on i) how fast our climate is changing, ii) what we can do to reverse it, and iii) spotlight signs of progress.

July 2019: We are preparing to release the GCR monthly with a media kit soon. In addition to producing the GCR itself, we welcome climate change photos sent in by the public, personal stories of how climate change is affecting lives, impacting income, and the work underway right now that is leading to progress.

Please join us in broadcasting the Goaloop Climate Report on air, online, via social media, and be the first to receive it each month by dropping your info on the contact page.

The Goaloop Climate Report Team

Lori Terrizzi
Founder

Lori Terrizzi is the CEO/Founder + Site Architect of Goaloop, a new system that helps you reach your goals and connects the world through goals. An M.F.A. graduate of Columbia University’s Film Division, where she was awarded a fellowship for study, Lori is passionate about art forms that fuse creative expression with technology, finding solutions to problems, and improving lives. Goaloop is the product of her life-long focus on issues of identity. Connecting everyone by the common denominator of our goals, across sectors, expands social circles and creates new opportunities for everyone. Goaloop uses the goal as a humanistic unit to transcend social, business, and ideological boundaries, uniting us in constructive ways while defying typical gender, zip code and other categorizations that divide, limit, and shape us.

While completing her degree at Columbia, Lori worked part-time at Lehman Brothers; its collapse in the Fall of ’08 and its implication in the worldwide economic downturn focused her attention on the concept of a stock market, which coalesced with other concerns, and led her to re-envision a new kind of marketplace for the 21st century: Goaloop, The Goal Market®.

Lori previously served as Executive Director of an international non-profit organization founded by writers to help persecuted writers worldwide, and she founded ReInventions to establish an online library of films (pre-YouTube) that chronicle individual and collective transformations, using film as a metaphor to explore authorship in society. Her work in both non-profit and for-profit sectors has involved designing websites and customized technology solutions. Early pivotal experiences include a sculpture apprenticeship in Italy and an internship at The Art Commission of the City of New York. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers College, where she majored in art history and received a scholarship for the study of art and music.

Born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, the granddaughter of immigrants from Italy and Armenia, Lori now lives in New York City, where Goaloop began as a series of questions. The story Raising Liberty: The Construction of the Statue of Liberty as Reconstruction Was Under Attack served as a metaphor for the construction of Goaloop and can be read here.

Wilson Lui
Data Scientist

Wilson Lui received his M.S. in Data Science from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he studied natural language processing and deep learning. During this time, he developed a passion for machine learning in its many forms. His master’s capstone project focused on predicting the outcomes of each of the 2018 U.S. House of Representatives Elections using a combination of mobile polling data, psychometric testing, and Bayesian hierarchical models.

While studying at Columbia, Wilson interned at the New York County District Attorney’s Office, where he developed an experimental process for detecting socially close people in call detail records, and at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where he used clustering algorithms to produce novel visualizations of climatology data.

Wilson previously worked in online advertising at WebMD. He received his B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University. On Saturdays, he volunteers for Apex for Youth, helping fourth grade public school students to improve their reading comprehension and math skills while preparing them for the New York State Common Core Test.

Dr. Anastasia Romanou
NASA Scientist, Advisor

Dr. Anastasia Romanou is a Research Physical Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an adjunct professor in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University. Specializing in Oceanography, she works in climate science with a focus on the influence and interdependence of the oceans and the Earth System. She is a member of the Earth Science Advisory Committee at NASA and has taught numerical modeling for climate applications at Columbia University.

Dr. Romanou’s research interests include large-scale circulation of the oceans, air-sea interactions and exchanges, the global carbon cycle, the ocean thermohaline circulation, climate variability, and climate modeling. She has written extensively in related areas, most recently publishing the “Ocean Carbon States” database: A proof-of-concept application of cluster analysis in the ocean carbon cycle, co-authored with Rebecca Latto.

Dr. Romanou holds a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from Florida State University, a Masters of Science in Oceanography from the University of Athens, Greece, where she also earned a B.A. in Physics.

Goaloop – The Goal Market®
Connecting the World through Goals®

Goaloop® is the world’s Goal Market®, the one-stop solution for goal achievement. Got a goal? Goaloop it! State your goal on Goaloop and everything appears for you to reach it: the right people, resources, incentives, and support – in a thriving community propelled by AI and the latest technology to help us achieve our individual and collective potential, skyrocketing collaboration and innovation.

Most networks connect people based on ‘who’ you know. Goaloop’s Goal Network® connects people based on ‘what’ your goals are. A goal to learn the guitar matches a goal to teach guitar, and sell guitars, and make guitars. Goaloop uses the goal to transcend social, business and ideological boundaries to unite us and focus on getting things done, expanding social circles and creating new opportunities in work and life. No matter what goal you have, someone else has a goal that will help you to achieve it.

Studies show we are addicted to social media platforms and digital devices, yet we have trouble focusing on our goals. Goaloop harnesses technology to addict you to your own goals. Your goal activity stream enables effortless focus on your goals. Goaloop is the ultimate Goal Manager®, where all of your goals, tasks, missions, intentions, and habits are organized and prioritized in one place.

Goaloop scales from your one personal goal to goals all over the world. The world’s first level marketplace, where funding is optional, Goaloop connects all productivity by the common denominator of our goals, from Wall Street to Main Street to the sidewalk vendor and your mobile office. Goaloop enables you to seek funding for your goals and fund the goals of others in six ways: donate, pledge, hedge, buy, bid, invest. The goal is a unit of productivity, and behavior; our Goal Index® measures economic activity in brand new ways. Reach and Market Your Full Potential® on Goaloop.

Selfie? Govie. Every goal tells a story and automatically becomes a ‘goal movie’ on Goaloop – a Govie™. Selfies feature poses, memes recycle imagery for entertainment, influencer-videos sell, and all are cultural expressions, shaping us in return. Govies feature doers, people taking action toward their goals, turning stories of their own character development into videos as instantly as snapping a selfie.​ We’ll be streaming Govies on Goaloop.TV.​

Goaloop is patent pending and based on the conclusion that the goal is the smallest unit of human motivation, the origin of all action, the common denominator among all productivity, a measurable unit, our natural currency as well as a commodity.

We live in a globalized world with global opportunities and global problems yet we do not have a global productivity platform, until now: Goaloop is the Goal Engine®, based on the belief that connecting goals, we can achieve anything together.